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()* — UN agencies warned on Friday [] of the high risk of the further spread of infectious diseases in Gaza, amid chronic water scarcity and no way to adequately manage waste and sewage.
01/08/2024
Skyrocketing Violence against Children in Sudan Demands Urgent Protection Measures: United Nations
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(UN News)* — The conflict in Sudan has led to a horrifying surge in violence against children, a new UN report has revealed, underscoring the need for urgent and tangible protection measures.
01/08/2024
Israeli Military in Spotlight over ‘Incommunicado’ Detention of Palestinians
31/07/2024
Adolescent Girls Face Alarming Rates of Intimate Partner Violence : World Health Organization
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(UN News)* — Nearly a quarter of all adolescent girls who have been in a relationship – close to 19 million – will have experienced intimate partner violence by the time they turn 20, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said in a new analysis on Monday [].
31/07/2024
Gazans Need Polio Vaccines amid ‘Deathly Cycle’ of Hunger, Heat and Disease: United Nations
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By Daniel Johnson
(UN News)* — In a bid to prevent a polio epidemic in Gaza, UN humanitarians on Tuesday [] repeated continuing international calls for a ceasefire to allow a mass vaccination campaign to get underway.
© UNRWA | Water remains in short supply in the Gaza Strip.
Almost 10 months of war and intense Israeli bombardment have shattered healthcare in Gaza and disrupted routine inoculation rounds for youngsters, leaving them exposed to a range of preventable diseases including polio, which the UN World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed had been identified last month in several sewage samples taken from Gaza.
29/07/2024
‘More than two million people in Gaza remain trapped in an endless nightmare of death and destruction on a staggering scale’
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(UN News)* — Senior UN officials on Friday [] reiterated the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza, and escalating threat to aid workers, urging immediate action prevent further deterioration.
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Muhannad Hadi, Deputy UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, and Antonia De Meo, Deputy Commissioner-General of the UN agency assisting Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, briefed the Security Council on the dire situation.
27/07/2024
UN: Extreme Heat a Global Issue With an Unequal Impact
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– “The world must rise to the challenge of rising temperatures,” says the UN Secretary-General as he launches a call to action on extreme heat and its impact on society and the environment.
Extreme heat has caused hundreds of deaths and has many other implications. This is an image from Dahanu, Maharashtra. Credit: 350/flickr
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27/07/2024
Earth Experiences Warmest Day in Recent History
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24 July 2024 (WMO)* — The Earth has just experienced its warmest day in recent history, according to one of the datasets that the WMO uses to monitor the Earth’s climate, namely the ERA5 dataset from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).
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26/07/2024
More Workers Than Ever Are Losing the Fight against Heat Stress
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Workplace exposures to excessive heat in Africa were above the global average, affecting 92.9 per cent of the workforce.
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GENEVA, 25 July 2024 (ILO)* – A new report from the International Labour Organization (ILO), Heat at work: Implications for safety and health, warns that more workers are being exposed to heat stress worldwide.
The new data reveals that regions previously unaccustomed to extreme heat will face increased risks, while workers in already hot climates will confront ever more dangerous conditions.
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26/07/2024
UNICEF Chief Highlights the Dire Conditions in Gaza, where “With Each Passing Week, Families Face New Horrors”
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(UN News)* — The head of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) appealed on Wednesday [] for an immediate improvement in the security situation in Gaza, where dangerous operating conditions and attacks against humanitarian workers continue to hamper aid delivery to communities in need.
“Simply put – we do not have the necessary conditions in the Gaza Strip for a robust humanitarian response,” UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said in a statement issued in the wake of an attack on one of the agency’s vehicles and the latest Israeli evacuation order in Khan Younis.
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