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India’s immunization programme caters to almost 27 million newborns each year.

Childhood immunization levels stalled in 2023

New data published on Monday by UN agencies shows that immunization coverage for children worldwide stalled during 2023, leaving around 2.7 million lacking the protection they need compared to the pre-COVID-19 levels of 2019.

Philippines: Humane approach to incarceration relieves chronic prison overcrowding

United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed meets young children at a refugee camp in Chad.

Sustainable development: ‘Be leaders and inspire’ UN deputy chief urges, as 2030 deadline nears

WHO and partners have been responding to help those injured during a series of airstrikes in Gaza’s Al-Mawasi area on Saturday, near Khan Younis.

Gaza: Guterres ‘shocked and saddened’ by deadly strikes on Al Mawasi, as WHO and partners aid medical response

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First Person: Filipino elderly ex-prisoner’s joy of ‘sleeping and eating’

Gaza: There is no alternative to UNRWA, Guterres declares

Top aid officials call for greater solidarity and support for Haiti

World News in Brief: Sand and dust storm scourge, Mali humanitarian update, moving education online

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Following Israeli relocation orders, Palestinians take as much belongings as they can to move to a new place. Nowhere is safe in Gaza.

UN aid mission witnesses ‘apocalyptic’ scenes in Gaza city, with most basic supplies non-existent

Benedikt Hofmann, UNODC Deputy Regional Representative for Southeast Asia and the Pacific describes the Bamban scam farm located north of the Philippines capital, Manila.

Southeast Asia, the ‘ground zero’ for global scamming industry

Bintou Keita, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of MONUSCO, addresses the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Top UN envoy warns against rush to end mission in DR Congo

An UNRWA school in Khan Younis, which served as a shelter when the conflict started, lies in ruins.

Gaza: School strikes leave children’s futures in balance, warns UN aid agency

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Scammers who do not meet their quotas are often tortured

Southeast Asia: Torture rooms and karaoke bars in gang-run ‘scam farms’

Law and Crime Prevention Transnational crime syndicates based in Southeast Asia are fuelling the trafficking of people, either forcing them to commit crimes or for sexual exploitation in so-called “scam farms” that have spread across the region, according to the United Nations.

Girls study science at a school in India.

Time running short as 2030 deadline looms for UN blueprint for a fairer future

Angelique attended the UNODC-supported Strong Families programme with her mother.

Feeling ‘90 per cent stronger’: Families in the Philippines help prevent drug abuse

The availability of solar energy has enabled farmers in north Sudan to continue farming

INTERVIEW: Sustainable energy offers ‘hope’ in fight against desertification and land loss

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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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A women hold her baby in a cap for displaced people in Maiduguri in northeastern Nigeria.

Top official warns of weakened regional security following withdrawal from West African economic bloc by Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger

Peace and Security Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger’s decision to pull out of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) “even as terrorism and transnational organized crime remain a pervasive threat”, will be damaging to regional relations all round, said the UN’s top official in the region on Friday.

Food assistance is distributed to displaced people in the eastern DR Congo.

DR Congo: Conflict escalation linked to deadly Mpox threat

Peace and Security At least 25 million people have been caught up in the humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) where a neglected health emergency continues to unfold at an alarming rate, the UN health agency said on Friday.

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