humanitarian

A group of people on the streets of Yangon show their support for Myanmar.
Unsplash/Saw Wunna

Six months since the coup, UN remains committed to Myanmar’s citizens: top aid official

29 July 2021
Interviews

Six months since the military coup in Myanmar, the UN and partners are doing their utmost to help protect the country’s people and show solidarity with their plight, amid mass displacement linked to deadly clashes with Government forces and the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. 

That’s the message from the organisation’s top acting humanitarian coordinator in the country, Ramanathan Balakrishnan, who’s been speaking to UN News’s Daniel Johnson. 

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9'14"
A sign at a school in South Sudan that reads “No water, No life.”
UNICEF/Helene Sandbu Ryeng

News in Brief 13 May 2021

13 May 2021
News in Brief
  • South Sudan: UN humanitarian offical condemns killing of aid worker
  • UN labour agency ILO and partners tackle child labour in Iraq
  • Expert meeting to examine science and technology for COVID-19 response
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2'43"
Passenger screening at Maya Maya international airport, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo.
WHO/D. Elombat

News in Brief 27 November 2020

27 November 2020
News in Brief
  • Africa ‘not ready’ for huge vaccine drive against COVID: WHO 
  • First of four UN humanitarian airlifts for Ethiopia refugees lands in Khartoum 
  • Food emergency forces Malagasy to forage for food 
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2'52"
Photo of New Delhi, India.
UN India

News in Brief 20 October 2020

20 October 2020
News in Brief
  • UN rights chief urges India to safeguard rights of NGOs, activists
  • Central Sahel humanitarian needs at 'breaking point': Guterres
  • UNHCR and partners to hold donor conference for Rohingya refugees
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3'24"
A mother and her baby at Internally Displaced People (IDP) Camp B in Mafa, Borno State, Nigeria.
UNOCHA

Nigeria: UN and partners acting to avert coronavirus spread in displacement camps

1 April 2020
Health

The UN system in Nigeria and its partners are working to reduce the spread of the new coronavirus disease in some of the most vulnerable areas in the country: communities and camps housing millions of internally displaced people (IDPs) uprooted by the Boko Haram insurgency in the northeast.

On 7 February 2020, a girl holds a younger child as children and families flee from southern Idlib and western Aleppo to the northern part of Idlib and Aleppo in Syria.
© UNICEF/Khaled Akacha

News in Brief 02 March 2020

2 March 2020
News in Brief

 - Seven UN agencies conduct cross-border mission to Idlib, Syria

- Syrians suffering 'unprecedented' levels of displacement: Commission of Inquiry

- Rights expert urges countries to repeal gender discriminatory laws

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3'33"
Aruminda holds her brother, Antonio, at a camp set up for displaced people at the Jehovas Witness Centre in Dondo, Mozambique. Cyclone Idai displaced thousands of people.
UNICEF/DE WET

News in Brief 24 February 2020

24 February 2020
News in Brief

- UN chief outlines 7-point Call of Action on human rights
- COVID-19 is not yet a pandemic, says head of WHO
- Syria: Senior aid official warns of potential 'bloodbath' in Idlib

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3'22"
UN Secretary-General António Guterres (file photo).
© UNESCO/Christelle Alix

News in Brief 8 January 2020

8 January 2020
News in Brief
  • UN chief continues engagement to avert Gulf war
  • International community supports aid delivery to West Darfur displaced
  • Livelivehood project in Pakistan to benefit Afghan refugees, host communities 
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3'12"
Children shelter from the cold with their families at an informal settlement in Killi, Syria, near the border with Turkey.
© UNICEF/Saad

News in Brief 24 December 2019

24 December 2019
News in Brief
  • UN chief's concern over military escalation in north-west Syria
  • Nigeria urged to protect civilians and aid workers
  • WFP and Myanmar partnership to end hunger
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3'49"
Ethiopian peacekeepers deployed to the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) escort a group of women outside a UN-run site and create a safe perimeter within which they can search for firewood without being at risk of attack, 28 March 2017.
UNMISS/Nektarios Markogiannis

South Sudan: political will needed to form a unified government, on the road to peace

17 December 2019
Peace and Security

Extending the deadline for the establishment of a unity government in South Sudan has helped maintain a ceasefire but also disillusioned many  citizens, the Security Council heard on Tuesday.