UN News Today

• Over 10,000 patients still waiting to be evacuated from Gaza
• UN Refugee Agency sounds alarm as climate change pounds displaced communities
• UN sexual health agency launches new strategy to help end FGM and child marriage in East and Southern Africa 

• Famine risk is real for 14 areas of Sudan amid ongoing fighting 
• Andaman Sea among most deadly for migrants zones for migrants
• Road safety experts wheel in fix for pedal error accidents 

• We'll never abandon Gaza, the UN’s top aid official tells me in an exclusive interview…
• The International Criminal Court convicts a former police chief of war crimes in Mali
• A new report this World Drug Day highlights rising drug use and increased trafficking

• There’s a new famine alert for Gaza where families go days without food.
• Top court the ICC, issues arrest warrants against senior Russian officials for alleged war crimes in Ukraine.
• And…Julian Assange’s release is welcomed by the Human Rights Council’s independent expert on torture.

• The head of the biggest UN agency in Gaza warns that an entire generation could be lost;
• In the latest outrage in Sudan, a maternity hospital comes under fire; 
• And it’s time for the ‘war on drugs’ to end, the Human Rights Council hears

• Gaza is more than two million stories of loss: UN agencies
• Internal displacement set to surge as paths of climate change and conflict meet #HRC56
• UNHCR rushes support to Rohingya refugees hit by deadly landslides in Bangladesh 

• Don’t forget Sudan crisis on World Refugee Day says aid agency chief Grandi
• Gaza today: Scorching heat, dire aid shortages and heavy fighting, warns OCHA
• Foreign direct investment declines for second year, UNCTAD report shows

• The laws of war are being ‘consistently violated' by Israel during its Gaza bombing campaign, says the UN human rights office

• Gazans are barely surviving amid the massive destruction

• China is being urged to provide information on an imprisoned Uyghur doctor

• Gaza: UN rights chief’s ire amid fresh strikes on refugee camp
• Myanmar in Human Rights Council spotlight
• Stark variations in attitudes to migrants, asylum seekers: UNHCR 

• Top UN official in Ukraine warns daily life becoming harder for civilians there
• ‘Transnational’ FGM undermined by the practice of travelling across borders to have the procedure performed on girls
• Human rights report in Ethiopia reveals a 56 per cent rise in violations since 2022