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UN News Today 10 October 2024

  • Lebanon crisis: health workers and facilities targeted or hit, warns UN OCHA
  • North Gaza aid missions impeded or denied, say UN humanitarians
  • More than 370 million girls and women globally raped or sexually assaulted: UNICEF

 

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UN News Today 09 October 2024

  • Lebanon on verge of all-out war, warns UN chief,
  • Northern Gaza: No end to hell, warns head of UNRWA
  • End ‘collective amnesia’ over COVID-19, says UN health agency WHO
  • Refugee agency awards top honour to campaigning nun in Brazil
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UN News Today 03 October 2024

  • Victims of deadly Lebanon escalation describe fleeing ‘total destruction’
  • In Ukraine, aid teams report that another apartment block has been hit by Russian shelling in the city of Kharkiv
  • More justice is needed for people of African descent who’ve died in police custody, human rights chief Türk underlines. 
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UN News Today 02 October 2024

  • Middle East escalation: UN human rights chief adds voice to calls for peace
  • At least 700,000 displaced in Haiti, half are children, says UN migration agency
  • Global immunization coverage remains below pre-pandemic levels: WHO
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