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UNRWA provides lifesaving work in Gaza despite challenges
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 16th Feb. UN relief agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) continues to provide lifesaving supplies and services to over 1.5 million displaced people in Rafah despite unprecedented challenges.…
UN Counter-Terrorism head calls for decisive multilateral action, ‘force alone not the answer’
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 16th Feb. Under-Secretary-General for the Office of Counter-Terrorism, Vladimir Voronkov on Thursday told the members of the UNSC that iInternational cooperation is vital to confront the…
UNFPA raises awareness on child marriage
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 15th Feb. UN Population Fund on Wednesday using the occasion of Valentine’s Day on 14 February to raise awareness about child marriage.
UNFPA recalled that each year, 12 million girls become…
WHO says polio investment in Eastern Mediterranean yields $39 return
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 15th Feb. World Health Organization said on Wednesday that every dollar invested in fighting polio in the Eastern Mediterranean region yields a return of nearly $39, in a press release issued in…
UN reports tensions high in North Kivu, DRC
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 15th Feb. UN mission in DRC on Wednesday reported that tensions remain high in North Kivu province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo in the town of Sake, as clashes persist…
UN medics warns Rafah invasion ‘disaster ‘beyond imagination’
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 15th Feb. UN medics on Wednesday said that they feared a humanitarian disaster “beyond imagination” if a full-scale incursion by the Israeli military happens in Rafah.
OCHA head Martin…
Top envoy says Gaza crisis hinders ‘steady progress’ made in Yemen
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 15th Feb. UN Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg said on Wednesday that the shockwaves from Gaza war continue to reverberate across the wider Middle East region, with the situation in Yemen…
Balochistan protests over ‘election rigging, military intimidation’
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
WASHINGTON DC, 14th Feb. According to Balochistan Post reported on Tuesday that after Pakistan’s general elections, protests have erupted in Balochistan as allegations were raised that there has been electoral…
OHCHR reports Syrian returnees face gross rights violations
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 14th Feb. UN human rights office in Geneva on Tuesday revealed in a new report that many Syrians who fled the war in Syria face violations and abuses upon their return at the hands of the…
OCHA reports Russian attacks continue on energy facilities
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 14th Feb. UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs on Tuesday reported that attacks on energy facilitates continued from Russian airstrikes.
OCHA has said that in the Dnipro region…