$1.4 billion needed for sexual and reproductive health services in crisis-hit countries

The funding will be used to deliver life-saving reproductive health services and vital gender-based violence prevention programmes to more than 45 million people. The appeal comes as an estimated 11 million pregnant women will require urgent support in 2025. Record displacement and devastation UNFPA recalled that global crises displaced a record 122.6 million people this year.  […]

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Rights experts call for immediate release of Abu Zubaydah from Guantánamo

On Monday the United States military sent 11 long-term detainees from the facility to Oman after reaching agreement with the Government there on relocation and resettlement.  Only 15 detainees now remain, according to news reports. The prison opened in 2002 and at its peak it held more than 600 prisoners overseen by over 2,000 military […]

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Top Nutra Affiliate Marketing Offers on ClickBank – November 2024

Mychal is here to bring you the HOTTEST affiliate marketing health and fitness offers to promote on ClickBank this November! We’ve got some returning champions and also some surprising newcomers, but one thing is for sure – these offers CONVERT! These nutra affiliate marketing offers work well in the health and fitness niche and for […]

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In New Year’s Message, Guterres urges countries to drastically slash emissions and ‘exit this road to ruin’

Reflecting on 2024, he stated that “hope has been hard to find”, with wars causing enormous pain, suffering and displacement, and inequalities and divisions fuelling tensions and mistrust. “And today I can officially report that we have just endured a decade of deadly heat,” he said. ‘No time to lose’ The Secretary-General noted that the […]

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Resilience of Ukrainians remains high, as UN maps aid and reconstruction needs for 2025

It has been almost three years since the 24 February 2022 full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has killed thousands of civilians and destroyed vital infrastructure, putting the economy under enormous strain. The UN has recorded more than 28,000 civilian casualties and over 10,000 deaths, but acknowledges that the actual toll is very likely to […]

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Syria: UN teams support cholera vaccination in northeastern camps

The cholera outbreak was detected in the camp in early October and subsequently confirmed by laboratory tests. Because Al Hol does not have a specialist treatment centre for acute watery diarrhoea, it is crucial that as many people are vaccinated as quickly as possible, the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, insists.  “For the first time we […]

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Birth registration increases, but 150 million children still ‘invisible’

However, the report, The Right Start in Life: Global Levels and Trends in Birth Registration, also highlights a troubling reality: 150 million children under five still go unregistered, meaning they don’t officially exist as far as government systems. According to UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell, it is crucial that we provide “stronger efforts to ensure that […]

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UN chief offers condolences amid devastating wildfires in California

The fires, described as some of the worst in the city’s history, have burned thousands of acres, destroyed homes and left firefighters battling to contain multiple blasts in unprecedented conditions. “The Secretary-General is shocked and saddened by the widespread devastation caused by the fast-moving wildfires,” said his Spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, in a statement released on […]

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