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Yasmina Guerda, UN Humanitarian Affairs Officer (centre), talks with a Palestinian woman in Rafah, Gaza, in March 2024.

‘Brand new words’ needed to describe Gaza devastation, UN humanitarian says

The situation in Gaza is so devastating that no words can adequately describe it, a humanitarian officer working in the besieged enclave has said.

A floating dock for the delivery of humanitarian supplies was built off the coast of Gaza.

Gaza: Aid delivery via floating dock welcomed, but land routes ‘more important’

In 2005, a warning about the presence of landmines and other unexploded ordinance in Jaffna, northern Sri Lanka. The area saw some of the worst fighting during the island's civil war.

UN rights office urges Sri Lanka to reveal fate of the disappeared

Children walking to their shelter at an IDP camp near El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, Sudan. (file)

UN’s rights chief says horrified by Sudan escalation as famine draws nearer

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Israel refutes South Africa’s accusations at UN world court

Crimes against nature: UN agency puts environmental legislation under scrutiny

Rights expert condemns death of Palestinian doctor in Israeli custody, urges independent inquiry

Guterres repeats call to Israel to halt Rafah assault as aid stocks dwindle

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Yasmina Guerda, UN Humanitarian Affairs Officer, looks out over Rafah, Gaza, in March 2024.

Urgent aid needed in Gaza amidst unimaginable hardship

Destroyed home in Kharkiv, Ukraine (Feb 2024)

Ukraine crisis reaches new terrifying level as civilians face daily drone and ‘glide bomb’ attacks

Carl Skau, Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), briefs reporters on his recent visit to Haiti.

Sudan civilians ‘want conflict to end’ says WFP's Deputy Executive Director

Abdoulaye Bathily, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya, briefs the Security Council meeting on the situation in the country.

Libya: Outgoing UN envoy details challenges to political solution

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Jelaskovic Ibrahim of the then-Yugoslav medical staff of the UN Emergency Force (UNEF) treats a child in El Kuntilla in the Sinai in Egypt in 1959. (file)

Stories from the UN Archive: UN’s first peacekeeping force

Peace and Security As the world celebrates the International Day of Living Together in Peace, marked annually on 16 May, we are taking you back to the 1950s, when the UN deployed its first ever peacekeeping force to the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula to help bring an end to the Suez Canal crisis.

An UNHAS helicopter lands on Ile de la Tortue off the north coast of Haiti.

Dealing with ‘unknowns’ flying in high-conflict Haiti

Dominica's geothermal energy pipe, Roseau Valley

Could the answer to 100% renewable energy in Dominica be under the ground?

Daily life continues on the streets of Port-au-Prince, despite the insecurity.

First Person: ‘Our tears are dry, we are exhausted’ – Youth voices in Haiti

Every month, thousands of Sudanese people still migrate to nearby countries like South Sudan and Chad, forgotten and voiceless on an incredibly challenging journey, and nobody knows when it will end.

Rape, murder and hunger: The legacy of Sudan’s year of war

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On 5 March 2024, UNICEF and partners delivered 23 incubators to hospitals in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

PHOTO STORY: 6 months of Gaza conflict leaves many close to famine

Six months after the full-scale invasion of Gaza, 30,000 Palestinians are dead, dozens of children have died of hunger and more than half a million Gazans face starvation. As Israel continues to bomb the occupied territory and restrict the entry of lifesaving goods, the UN is scrambling to respond.

Ukraine: War and restoring a sense of home

A single mother of three children is rebuilding her home with help from the UN refugee agency, UNHCR.

Gaza’s displaced children: ‘A heartbreaking story of loss and grief’

A five-year-old boy sits on his mattress in a shelter courtyard surrounded by several hundred other displaced people.

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Porters work at a metal market in Narayana in New Delhi, India.

Global economic growth improves but ‘downsides’ lurk

Economic Development The global economic picture has improved since January, but vulnerabilities remain, the mid-year update of the World Economic Situation and Prospects report published on Thursday has revealed.

Children walk past a destroyed house in Kherson, Ukraine (file).

World News in Brief: More Ukraine attacks, rights appeal for jailed Nigerian singer, International Day against Homophobia

Peace and Security The UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Ukraine condemned air strikes in Kherson city on Thursday, which injured dozens of civilians, including two children, and damaged homes and an education facility.

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