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A man carries a parcel of high energy biscuits that just entered through the humanitarian maritime corridor.
© WFP/Jaber Badwan

News in Brief 13 June 2024

UN News Today
  • Gaza: Malnourished children ‘dying before their families’ eyes’ 
  • Worldwide levels of forced displacement hit new high: UNHCR 
  • Africa not spending enough on quality education for children: UNICEF
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4'9"
A child sits in one of UNRWA schools in Gaza which turned into a shelter for the displaced.
Fadi/UNRWA

News in Brief 12 June 2024

UN News Today
  • Guterres hails 60 years of UN trade and development action
  • Gaza: Hamas and Israel carried out war crimes, says top independent rights probe
  • Kharkiv: amid destruction, thousands more evacuated from frontline villages: UNHCR, UNECE, UNEP
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4'30"
A Palestinian man stands next to a UN destroyed Vehicle.
Fadi Thabet/UNRWA

News in Brief 11 June 2024

UN News Today
  • Yemen: UN chief demands release of aid workers held by Houthi forces 
  • Gaza: ‘high time’ ceasefire and hostage release, says Guterres 
  • 49 migrants dead and 140 missing in shipwreck off Yemen coast: IOM 
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3'37"
A displaced girl cooking in one of UNRWA shelters in Gaza.
Fadi Thabet/UNRWA

News in Brief 10 June 2024

UN News Today
  • Sudan crisis: UN health agency alerts over attack on key hospital 
  • Rights abuses against civilians still rampant in eastern DR Congo 
  • Almost all women in Gaza say families struggling to survive: UN Women
Audio Duration
3'57"
As people continue to be forcibly displaced, UNFPA estimates that around 18,500 pregnant women have fled Rafah.
© UNRWA

News in Brief 7 June 2024

UN News Today
  • Amid Gaza war, kids now work so families can survive: UN labour agency 
  • ‘Unimaginable trauma’ haunts Sudan’s displaced while violence, famine threaten millions
  • Climate change impacts on health of pregnant women, children, older people
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Secretary-General António Guterres (centre) with Michael R. Bloomberg (left), UN Special Envoy for Climate Ambition and Solutions, and Sean M. Decatur, President of the American Museum of Natural History.
UN Photo/Mark Garten

News in Brief 5 June 2024

UN News Today
  • Acute food insecurity set to rise in 18 hunger hotspots: FAO/WFP 
  • There is an exit off ‘the highway to climate hell’, Guterres insists
  • 2025 global refugee resettlement needs spike to almost three million: UNHCR
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Nour Shams Palestine refugee camp, that is only 3 kilometers away from the city of Tulkarm in the northern West Bank after Israeli forces’ operation that lasted more than 55 hours between 18 and 21 April. (file)
UNRWA

News in Brief 4 June 2024

UN News Today
  • More than 500 Palestinians killed in occupied West Bank: UN rights chief 
  • Let’s break free from climate chaos, urges UN chief for Environment Day
  • Increase in migrants from Middle East and Asia on Africa migration routes: UNHCR 
Audio Duration
4'25"
Bombardment continues in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
© UNICEF/Eyad El Baba

News in Brief 3 June 2024

UN News Today
  • WFP reaches Haiti’s capital with truckloads of food
  • Gaza: conditions ‘unspeakable’ as one million people flee Rafah: UNRWA
  • Global pandemic treaty to be agreed by 2025, says UN health agency: WHO
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