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• Pandemic experts express concern over avian influenza spread to humans 
• Rights chief Türk urges peace for shattered DR Congo communities 
• Fears of Middle East escalation undiminished amid ongoing violence

• Pandemic experts express concern over avian influenza spread to humans 
• Rights chief Türk urges peace for shattered DR Congo communities 
• Fears of Middle East escalation undiminished amid ongoing violence

• $2.8 billion flash appeal launched in support of three million across Gaza and West Bank
• Violations of women’s reproductive health rights trigger rise in preventable deaths, says UNFPA
• Lives depend on success of Cameroon emergency appeal: Humanitarians

Millions of women and girls saw no progress in their reproductive rights simply because of who they are or where they were born, according to the new 2024 State of World Population report, released on Wednesday by UNFPA, the UN sexual and reproductive health agency.

The gangs which now control up to 90 per cent of Haiti’s capital must be persuaded to end their campaign of violence which has left the children of the Port-au-Prince region without safety, schooling and sufficient food to eat, the UN’s top envoy for Children and Armed Conflict has told UN News.

• Gaza: No let up in deadly toll as rights chief calls for end to civilian suffering 
• Ethiopia hunger rates focus of pledging forum: OCHA
• UN migration agency calls for $112 million to save lives in Africa and Yemen 

• Gaza: Rights experts condemn AI role in destruction by Israeli military
• Sudan crisis in international spotlight one year since war began
• Grower taskforce mulls action to tackle spike in plant pests

• Gaza: No improvement in aid access to north, insists senior UN aid official 
• Sudan facing looming famine, warn humanitarians
• Ukraine war leaves 3.3 million in dire need on frontlines: IOM 

Even before the war erupted in Sudan on 15 April last year, the country’s economy was already faltering, heavily reliant on international aid. 

Technological advances have transformed space exploration, making it more accessible but also more commercially driven, a senior official with the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) has been telling UN News, ahead of the in