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Gaza is ‘hell’ for newborns and mothers, warns UN Children’s Fund
Emirati Hospital in southern Gaza is one of last functioning maternity facilities in all of Gaza where “there aren’t enough staff and not enough medicine” for women about to give birth, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Friday.
Amid ongoing active conflict that has killed tens of thousands, UNICEF is doing its utmost to help, by delivering essential relief supplies to health teams, formula milk, clothes and food for women too weak to breastfeed.
But much more needs to be done to save lives - and ensure greater aid access to the enclave – said UNICEF’s Tess Ingram, who’s just back from a heartbreaking humanitarian mission to Rafah and Khan Younis.
Here she is speaking to UN News’s Daniel Johnson.
1/19/2024 • 7 minutes, 19 seconds
News in Brief - 30 May 2022 - Horn of Africa famine, climate 'human sacrifice', Sudan UN visit
This is the News in Brief from the United Nations, with the following top stories on Monday, 30 May 2022:
- Do more for environment or risk planet becoming ‘human sacrifice zone’: UN-appointed independent rights experts
- New #Sudan visit by Special Rapporteur Adama Dieng
- Fresh famine alert for Horn Of Africa
Audio: Daniel Johnson
Photo: UN Photo / Fardosa Hussein
5/30/2022 • 2 minutes, 59 seconds
News in Brief - 24 January 2022 - COVID-19, misinformation, and ISIL detention centre attack
The Lid is On: The UN is almost 75: Does it have the support it needs to survive?
Who wants the death of the UN?
This provocative question is the title – translated into English from Qui veut la mort de l’ONU? in French – of a new book by Romuald Sciora and Anne-Cécile Robert, two French journalists and experts in international affairs.
In it, they argue that the United Nations is often unfairly held responsible for a lot of the ailments of the world: war, famine, health and environmental crises…
For this new edition of The Lid Is On podcast, Yasmina Guerda spoke to them while they were visiting UN Headquarters in New York, about what, in their view, needs to happen to safeguard the Organization’s future.
Music credit: Massive Attack, by Podington Bear.
Photo: Anne-Cécile Robert (left) and Romuald Sciora (right), authors of "Qui veut la mort de l'ONU: du Rwanda à la Syrie, histoire d'un sabotage", New York, April 2019. Credit: UN Publications/Steven Bornholtz.
6/7/2019 • 16 minutes, 18 seconds
UN Coordinator Middle East: Massive funding crisis for Palestine relief, compounds collapsing system
Gaza Hospitals unable to feed their own patients, elective surgeries postponed for years – those are just a few examples of what the UN’s Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East, Jamie McGoldrick, describes as a “collapsing system in freefall”.
On Monday, he issued an appeal as part of the Humanitarian Response Plan for next year, for $350 million, to help 1.4 million people in the most need, across the occupied Palestinian territories, chiefly the the Gaza Strip.
Our UN News Arabic chief, Reem Abaza, was in Gaza with Mr. McGoldrick several weeks ago, and after they had visited the main hospital there together, she asked him to outline the extent of Gaza’s plight.
Audio Credit: Reem Abaza, UN News
Photo: Palestinian refugee residing at UNRWA ciollective shelter at Khan Dunoun Camp, Syria (2015). UNRWA/Taghrid Mohammad
