"SEXUAL VIOLENCE"

The United States vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza. UNIFEED

UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council that he invoked Article 99 of the UN Charter because we are “at a breaking point,” warning that there is a high risk of the total collapse of the humanitarian support system in Gaza, which would have devastating consequences. UNIFEED

As Haiti faces a situation of “absolute brutal violence”, the deployment of a multi-national security support mission is awaited with hope, the UN’s top humanitarian official in the country said. UNTV CH

A recent workshop in South Sudan’s capital, Juba, aimed to strengthen capacities among the National Police’s Steering Committee and focal points in all of the country’s ten states to prevent, respond to and investigate this scourge. UNIFEED

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk said that the crises and conflicts we are seeing around the world should be a wake-up call for the international community. UNTV CH

A new UN report details a further rise in gang violence in Haiti as criminal gangs forge alliances and expand to rural areas previously considered safe. OHCHR

Executive Director of UN Women, Sima Sami Bahous welcomed "the news that 50 hostages, all women, and children, will be released in return for the release of 150 Palestinian women and children, and a much-needed humanitarian pause.” UNIFEED

The UN Human Rights Office is extremely alarmed by reports that Rapid Support Forces and their allied Arab militia killed hundreds of ethnic Masalit civilians in Ardamata town earlier this month, in yet another ethnically motivated mass attack on non-Arab Masalit civilians in West Darfur in just a few months. UNTV CH

The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) Child Protection Unit partnered with the South Sudan People’s Defence Forces (SSPDF) Child Protection Directorate to conduct a two-day capacity-building workshop for 50 military justice officers. UNMISS

The Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Natalia Kanem, said, “despite being one of the poorest countries in the world, Chad now hosts more than a million refugees, including newly some half a million who fled the conflict in Sudan over the past six months. Most women and children.” UNIFEED