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A Palestinian family flees Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip.

Gaza: Nearly 800,000 now displaced from Rafah

Roughly 800,000 people have been forced to flee Rafah since Israel launched a military operation in the area on 6 May, the head of UN Palestine refugee agency UNRWA said on Saturday in a renewed appeal for greater protection of civilians in Gaza, safe humanitarian access and, ultimately, a ceasefire.

A child holds medicine he received from health workers at a mobile health clinic in a neighbourhood of eastern Aleppo, Syria (file).

Syria: WHO Regional Director calls for greater investment in health sector

Prime Minister Gaston Browne of Antigua and Barbuda talks to UN News ahead of the 4th International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS4) taking place there from 27-30 May 2024.

Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister hopes for high impact conference charting course for small island States

Yasmina Guerda, UN Humanitarian Affairs Officer (centre), talks with a Palestinian woman in Rafah, Gaza, in March 2024.

‘Brand new words’ needed to describe Gaza devastation, UN humanitarian says

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Gaza: Aid delivery via floating dock welcomed, but land routes ‘more important’

India’s LGBTQIA+ community notches legal wins but still faces societal hurdles to acceptance, equal rights

UN rights office urges Sri Lanka to reveal fate of the disappeared

UN’s rights chief horrified by Sudan escalation as famine draws nearer

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Yasmina Guerda, UN Humanitarian Affairs Officer, looks out over Rafah, Gaza, in March 2024.

Urgent aid needed in Gaza amidst unimaginable hardship

Destroyed home in Kharkiv, Ukraine (Feb 2024)

Ukraine crisis reaches new terrifying level as civilians face daily drone and ‘glide bomb’ attacks

Carl Skau, Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), briefs reporters on his recent visit to Haiti.

Sudan civilians ‘want conflict to end’ says WFP's Deputy Executive Director

Abdoulaye Bathily, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya, briefs the Security Council meeting on the situation in the country.

Libya: Outgoing UN envoy details challenges to political solution

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Jelaskovic Ibrahim of the then-Yugoslav medical staff of the UN Emergency Force (UNEF) treats a child in El Kuntilla in the Sinai in Egypt in 1959. (file)

Stories from the UN Archive: UN’s first peacekeeping force

Peace and Security As the world celebrates the International Day of Living Together in Peace, marked annually on 16 May, we are taking you back to the 1950s, when the UN deployed its first ever peacekeeping force to the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula to help bring an end to the Suez Canal crisis.

An UNHAS helicopter lands on Ile de la Tortue off the north coast of Haiti.

Dealing with ‘unknowns’ flying in high-conflict Haiti

Dominica's geothermal energy pipe, Roseau Valley

Could the answer to 100% renewable energy in Dominica be under the ground?

Daily life continues on the streets of Port-au-Prince, despite the insecurity.

First Person: ‘Our tears are dry, we are exhausted’ – Youth voices in Haiti

Every month, thousands of Sudanese people still migrate to nearby countries like South Sudan and Chad, forgotten and voiceless on an incredibly challenging journey, and nobody knows when it will end.

Rape, murder and hunger: The legacy of Sudan’s year of war

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On 5 March 2024, UNICEF and partners delivered 23 incubators to hospitals in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

PHOTO STORY: 6 months of Gaza conflict leaves many close to famine

Six months after the full-scale invasion of Gaza, 30,000 Palestinians are dead, dozens of children have died of hunger and more than half a million Gazans face starvation. As Israel continues to bomb the occupied territory and restrict the entry of lifesaving goods, the UN is scrambling to respond.

Ukraine: War and restoring a sense of home

A single mother of three children is rebuilding her home with help from the UN refugee agency, UNHCR.

Gaza’s displaced children: ‘A heartbreaking story of loss and grief’

A five-year-old boy sits on his mattress in a shelter courtyard surrounded by several hundred other displaced people.

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A view of the International Court of Justice courtroom at The Hague in the case of South Africa v. Israel.

Israel refutes South Africa’s accusations at UN world court

Law and Crime Prevention The UN International Court of Justice (ICJ), on Friday, heard the response from Israel on the case brought forward by South Africa requesting emergency provisional measures to immediately halt Israeli military operations under way in Rafah, in southern Gaza, where over one million Palestinians were sheltering after having been displaced from elsewhere in the enclave.

Globally, 160 countries consider improper waste dumping a crime.

Crimes against nature: UN agency puts environmental legislation under scrutiny

Climate and Environment Global efforts to prevent crimes against nature and bring offenders to justice are being hampered by glaring differences in environmental protection laws among countries and regions, UN crime prevention experts said on Friday.

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