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Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, holds his last press conference as Emergency Relief Coordinator at UN Headquarters.

Top UN humanitarian laments lack of dialogue to resolve conflict

The UN’s top aid official said on Tuesday he was leaving office at the end of the month with “some important pieces of wisdom” but also a feeling of frustration because many crises no longer make the headlines, while humanitarian operations face a dire lack of funding.

One million people have been forced to flee in the past three weeks as heavy bombardment continues in Rafah in southern Gaza.

Continuing restrictions hamper humanitarian access inside Gaza

A woman helps restore degraded land in Ecuador.

Break free from pollution, climate chaos and ‘biodiversity decimation’, UN chief urges

Children walk through partially destroyed streets in Jenin in the West Bank. (file)

More than 500 Palestinians killed in occupied West Bank: UN rights chief

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Little protection for the vulnerable, even on major migration routes: UNHCR

War must never be normalized for child victims: Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine

Ongoing war destroying social fabric in Gaza: Aid official

UNICEF extends aid to children in Afghanistan affected by flash floods

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Kamal Kishore, UN Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, at the SIDS4 conference in Antigua and Barbuda.

World must step up support for SIDS as ‘expression of responsibility’

Delegates gather for the AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva.

Humans and robots unite at the AI for Good Summit in Geneva

International development expert Claire Nelson at the SIDS4 conference who took part in a side event on artistic expression and technology in cultural tourism.

From Belafonte to Rihanna, the Caribbean has ‘transformed culture’

Major Radhika Sen, who served with the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Democratic Republic of Congo, is the winner of the 2023 Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award.

Indian peacekeeper awarded UN Military Gender Advocate of the Year

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A teacher in India leads an awareness class about menstrual and general hygiene to her students. (file)

Explainer: What’s a dignity kit?

Women Every month, nearly two billion women and girls menstruate, but during times of war and climate disasters, from the conflict in Gaza to the devastation caused by Cyclone Remal in Asia, UN humanitarian teams rush to serve affected communities, providing critical aid, which includes dignity kits.

Workers construct barriers to combat sea erosion along the coastline of Tuvalu.

More climate funding needed to ‘transition from rhetoric to decisive action’

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

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?

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Many Gazans who fled to Rafah are now on the move again.

Searching for safety in Gaza

Most of Gaza’s 2.3 million people are fleeing from escalating violence in the north and south in the seven-month-long war that has killed nearly 36,000 Palestinians, leaving behind a looming famine and trails of rubble in the besieged enclave.

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

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

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.

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The Busher nuclear power plant in Iran. (file photo)

Iran’s uranium stockpile grows following three years of denied access

Peace and Security Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium continues to increase, the head of the UN atomic watchdog agency said on Monday, adding that it has been three years since the agency was able to access the country.

A WFP-chartered cargo plane being unloaded of its 15 MT of desperately needed medical supplies at the Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

World News in Brief: Aid breakthrough for Haiti, police violence in Chicago, celebrating ‘pedal power’

Humanitarian Aid UN humanitarians said on Monday that they have finally been able to deliver truckloads of food to highly vulnerable people in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, after gang violence prevented access for more than two months.

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