"GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE"

Despite the protracted challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, political instability and funding shortfalls, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East has continued to deliver its essential work to provide health care services to Palestine refugees in 2022 across the Agency’s five fields of operation Jordan, Lebanon, the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, Gaza and Syria. UNTV CH

Children in the Horn of Africa are living through an unprecedented large-scale crisis of hunger, displacement, water scarcity, and insecurity. More than 7 million children under the age of 5 remain malnourished and in need of urgent nutrition support, and over 1.9 million children are at risk of dying from severe malnutrition. UNICEF

“The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a neglected crisis with increasing humanitarian needs," the UN top aid official in the country warned today. UNTV CH

The United Nations Mission in South Sudan held interactive workshops in the country to talk about constitution-making and election processes. UNMISS

“I strongly condemn this wanton violence, in which both sides have trampled international humanitarian law,” said the UN human rights chief Volker Türk at the opening of the Council’s Special Session on Sudan. UNTV CH

The United Nations welcomed the announcement by the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces to extend the current ceasefire for an additional 72 hours and called for its full implementation, a UN spokesperson informed. UNIFEED

The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) Executive Director, Dr. Natalia Kanem, concluded an official 3-day mission to Fiji, which commenced on 24 April and included visiting Makoi Maternity Unit in Suva, and Nabavatu Village in Vanua Levu. UNFPA

The spokesperson for the Secretary-General, Stéphane Dujarric, updated journalists on the humanitarian response to the earthquake that hit Türkiye and Syria. Dujarric said that water and sanitation have emerged as key priorities. UNIFEED

Systematic, widespread and gross human rights violations were committed in Belarus in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election and in its aftermath, finds the latest report of the UN Human Rights Office presented today at the Human Rights Council. UNTV CH

The most serious human rights violations in the Islamic Republic of Iran over the past four decades have been committed since the death in police custody of Jina Mahsa Amini on 16 September 2022, including possible crimes against humanity, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran said today to media at the United Nations in Geneva. UNTV CH