"HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCIES"

Two months since the Black Sea Grain Initiative kicked into action to help release desperately needed grain and fertilizer from ports in Ukraine and Russia, confidence is returning among global distributors as exports ramp up, UN humanitarians said on Thursday. UNTV CH

Millions of people in Pakistan are still deeply affected by catastrophic flooding, which “is not going anywhere,” UN relief agencies said on Tuesday. UNTV CH

All Inclusive: the Campaign for Refugee Education, calls for the inclusion of refugees in national education systems from the start of humanitarian emergencies, through protracted displacement situations and in longer-term development planning. UNHCR

Announcing his upcoming trip to Pakistan, “in this hour of need after the devastating floods that we are witnessing,” Secretary-General António Guterres said, “to deal with climate change, that is the defining issue of our time, with a business-as-usual approach is pure suicide.” UNIFEED

“According to government figures, close to 900 health facilities have been damaged or destroyed in Pakistan, leaving millions of people without access to health care and medical treatment,” said a United Nations spokesperson. UNIFEED

A United Nations spokesperson said that 340,000 people have now been impacted by catastrophic flooding in 11 of Chad’s 23 provinces. UNIFEED

The United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, has allocated $5 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund to help meet the humanitarian needs caused by gang violence in Haiti. UNTV CH

The United Nations humanitarian agency OCHA warned that the funding shortfall for aid operations is the biggest it’s ever been, at nearly $34 billion. UNTV CH

The Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, told the Security Council that the “fragile” truce between Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants in Gaza “has allowed the resumption of essential movements of goods and people in and out of Gaza, including the delivery of humanitarian assistance and fuel for the Gaza Power Plant.” UNIFEED

A new report, In Danger, is being launched ahead of the International AIDS Conference in Montreal, Canada. The report shows that globally the number of new infections dropped only 3.6 percent between 2020 and 2021, the smallest annual decline in new HIV infections since 2016. UNAIDS