News in Brief 28 November 2023
- UN rights office appalled by #BurkinaFaso attack
- Support grassroots communities fighting AIDS
- Olympian Mo Farah first @UNMigration global Goodwill Ambassador
The climate crisis is also a health crisis. This is the message the UN health agency will deliver to world leaders and negotiators gathering at this year’s UN Climate Change Conference, COP28, in Dubai.
The UN General Assembly last month passed a resolution calling for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas – the first collective call to action to come out of the UN since the start of the conflict on 7 October.
Negotiations continued on Thursday towards the implementation of the Israel-Hamas truce in Gaza, where staff from the UN agency that assists Palestine refugees, UNRWA, remain “on the ground doing an impossible mission”.
Record numbers of Sudan refugees seek shelter from fighting in Chad