Archive for May 21st, 2025

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21/05/2025

Gaza: UN Aid Workers Still Waiting for Permission from Israel to Distribute Five Trucks Worth of Lifesaving Relief

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(UN News)* — UN aid workers said on Wednesday that they are still waiting for permission from Israel to distribute five trucks’ worth of lifesaving relief that was allowed into Gaza at the start of the week, after an 11-week blockade.

Waiting in line for nutrition screening at a UNICEF-supported clinic in the Gaza Strip where supplies "are almost gone", the UN agency warned on Wednesday..
© UNICEF/Eyad El Baba | Waiting in line for nutrition screening at a UNICEF-supported clinic in the Gaza Strip where supplies “are almost gone”, the UN agency warned on Wednesday 21 May 2025

Existing supplies of basic necessities have been running dangerously low and on Wednesday 21 May 2025 the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, said that its nutrition stocks to prevent increasing malnutrition “are almost gone”.

“Humanitarian assistance is being weaponised to serve and support political and military objectives,” said Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA.

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21/05/2025

10 Things You Should Know about Nuclear Weapons

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By The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)*

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1️⃣ The consequences of nuclear weapons are catastrophic. 

Nuclear weapons are not like other weapons, they are designed to mass murder civilians, wipe out entire cities and cause irreversible harm to the environment. 

First responders like the Red Cross have warned that they would have no capacity to deal with a nuclear detonation, and if the conflict were to escalate into nuclear war, recent studies show over 5 billion people could die from the famine that follows.

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21/05/2025

Unprecedented Rise in Global Military Expenditure as European and Middle East Spending Surges

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By the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)*

(Stockholm) — World military expenditure reached $2718 billion in 2024, an increase of 9.4 per cent in real terms from 2023 and the steepest year-on-year rise since at least the end of the cold war.
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Photo: Shutterstock

Photo: Shutterstock

Military spending increased in all world regions, with particularly rapid growth in both Europe and the Middle East.

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21/05/2025

World Health Organization’s Annual Budget Is the ‘Equivalent to Global Military Expenditure Every Eight Hours’

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World Health Assembly opens amid high-stakes pandemic treaty vote, global funding crisis

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus address the 78th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland.
© WHO/Pierre Albouy | WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus address the 78th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland.

(UN News)* — The 78th World Health Assembly opened on 19 May 2025 with a broad appeal to global solidarity, as delegates from around the world gather in Geneva to confront mounting health, climate, and financial challenges – and finalise a global treaty to head off the next pandemic.

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