"MINING"

In South Sudan, 122 women participate in mixed gender demining teams. UNMISS

A top UN official for Europe, Central Asia and Americas said, “Amidst global challenges and crises, the international community must sustain its focus on Ukraine and end the suffering caused by this war.” UNIFEED

The World Health Organization (WHO) senior official Michael Ryan told reporters, “we are seeing a complete collapse of the higher-level infrastructure of the Gaza health system,” adding that it is very hard to maintain good data of the injured and deaths in a situation where health systems are collapsing. UNIFEED

A second WHO-led joint UN mission, working in collaboration with the Palestine Red Crescent Society, earlier Sunday evacuated 31 babies from Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza to a hospital in southern Gaza. WHO

Civilians accounted for 85 percent of casualties by landmine and explosive remnants of war in 2022, half of them were children, according to a UN-backed civil society report released today. UNTV CH

A top UN humanitarian official said, “while much of the international attention is rightly concentrated on the grave events in the Middle East, it is important that we do not lose focus on other crises, particularly the war in Ukraine, which continues to inflict unimaginable levels of suffering.” UNIFEED

Briefing the Security Council on the situation in Ukraine, the Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Rosemary DiCarlo, said, “Residents of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, Lviv, Sumy, Donetsk, Odesa, Kyiv, and other regions continued to face unrelenting and often indiscriminate attacks.” UNIFEED

The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is “deeply concerned” by escalating tensions and clashes in parts of northern and eastern Mali, including Timbuktu, Gao and Menaka, a UN spokesperson said. UNIFEED

In his address to the General Assembly’s General Debate, the President of Palau Surangel Whipps said that his country advocates “for a global deep-sea mining moratorium and adhering to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea precautionary principle.” UNIFEED

Amid record levels of violence against children in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) sounded the alarm today that the country has the world’s highest number of children being raped and killed on a daily basis. UNTV CH