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Caritas draws attention to $1bn Pacific climate finance gap at COP29 A new report from Caritas Oceania, Caritas Australia and Jubilee Australia Research Centre, has revealed the total annual finance...

Executive summary Thanks to the power of vaccines and decades of global collaboration, wild poliovirus has been nearly wiped out. But the virus – exploiting factors like insecurity, humanitarian...

Seventy-ninth Session, 50th & 51st Meetings (AM & PM) GA/SHC/4430 The Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) sent nine draft resolutions to the General Assembly today, including texts on...

Creating Hope in Conflict: A Humanitarian Grand Challenge was created with a simple, but powerful mission: to fund innovations that address the needs of those whose lives had been upended by...

Jorge Moreira da Silva UN Under-Secretary-General; Executive Director of UNOPS, United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) Many countries are due to submit their climate action plans –...

Completing the Nyamlel Bridge, Feeder roads, and WASH facilities has improved the living standards of more than 1.2 million women, men, and children in the Bahr el Ghazal region in South Sudan. 14...

The African Ministerial Conference on Meteorology (AMCOMET) has launched the Implementation and Resource Mobilization Plan for the African Integrated Strategy on Meteorology. It aims to provide...

At the COP29 World Leaders Climate Action Summit, the Agriculture Innovation Mechanism for Scale (AIM for Scale) unveiled its first-ever, groundbreaking Innovation Package, aimed at providing weather...

I. Situation Overview Issued on 15 November 2024 at 5:00 AM, “Ofel” continues to weaken over Luzon Strait. HAZARDS AFFECTING LAND AREAS Heavy Rainfall Outlook Refer to Weather Advisory No. 36 issued...

Acute Watery Diarrhea (AWD) with Dehydration Outbreak (01 Jan-09 Nov 2024) The epi-curve shows a decreasing trend since week 31-2024, which could be linked to the end of the summer season (Figure 1)...

Responding to the apparent police killings of seven people amid post-election protests in Nampula on 13 November 2024, Amnesty International Deputy Regional Director for East and Southern Africa,...

In the rugged mountains of Mohmand, in the heart of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, Yasmin Gul’s* life was shaped by unyielding traditions. Her three daughters – Meena*, Fatima*, and Ayesha* helped her...

The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health in Islamabad has confirmed the detection of another wild poliovirus (WPV1) case from Pakistan. On Thursday,...

I. Situation Overview On 04 June 2024, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) reported that El Niño in the tropical Pacific Ocean has ended, as both...

I. Situation Overview Issued on 14 November 2024 at 5:00 PM, “Ofel” further weakens over mainland Cagayan and continues to threaten Babuyan Islands. HAZARDS AFFECTING LAND AREAS Heavy Rainfall...

I. Situation Overview On 03 November 2024, a low-pressure area (LPA) formed outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) and gradually developed into a Tropical Depression. The system was...

I. Situation Overview On 20 October 2024 at 4:00 AM, the trough of a Low-Pressure Area (LPA) caused cloudy skies, accompanied by scattered rains and thunderstorms, potentially triggering flash floods...

Seventy-ninth Session, 25th Meeting (AM) GA/SPD/824 More than 100 employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) are involved in terrorism,...

Call for Greater Investment in Development Solutions and Peacebuilding ADDIS ABABA/GENEVA/NEW YORK – The International Organization for Migration (IOM), the United Nations Development Programme...

CONTEXT Cambodia is highly vulnerable to natural hazards, including flooding, droughts, and typhoons. Climate change has worsened the negative impacts of these hazards, particularly flooding, due to...