William O’Neill, who reports to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, highlighted an attack on the Bernard Mevs Hospital in Port-au-Prince on 17 December and the killing of several journalists and a police officer at the General Hospital on 24 December. The victims were attending the hospital’s official reopening. “Criminal gangs have murdered and kidnapped physicians, nurses and healthcare …
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© UNRWA Patients are teated at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza (file photo). Friday, January 03, 2025 UN News The UN Security Council is meeting in emergency session at 10am in New York on the collapse of health services in Gaza. The meeting was called by Algeria, the leading voice for the Arab world on the Council which …
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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 received the vaccine of cholera …
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When 11-year-old Venezuelan refugee Astrid Saavedra walked into her fourth-grade classroom in Trinidad and Tobago for her first day of school in September, she was eager to begin lessons in her favourite subject, mathematics. But the prospect of teaching fellow students about her homeland Venezuela was equally exciting. Astrid is one of the first refugee and migrant children from Venezuela …
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The recent collapse of a high-rise building in Dar es Salaam, killing 16 people and injuring more than 80, has reignited concerns about the city’s disaster preparedness. Credit: Kizito Makoye Shigela/IPS by Kizito Makoye (dar es salaam) Friday, January 03, 2025 Inter Press Service DAR ES SALAAM, Jan 03 (IPS) – As the dust settled over Kariakoo’s bustling streets, Halima Abdallah’s …
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Credit: White House Opinion by James E. Jennings (atlanta, georgia) Friday, January 03, 2025 Inter Press Service ATLANTA, Georgia, Jan 03 (IPS) – The fireplace in the State Dining Room of the White House that says, “May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.” President John Adams wrote that in a letter to his wife Abigail in …
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Max George provided another update about his health. The 36-year-old musician, who is a member of the band The Wanted, recently revealed that he’d had a pacemaker installed after spending some time in the hospital to address “issues” with his heart. This week he took to social media to reveal that he was headed back to the hospital for another …
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UN Under-Secretary-General (USG) and High Representative, cr. Credit: OHRLLS Opinion by Rabab Fatima (united nations) Friday, January 03, 2025 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Jan 03 (IPS) – Over 570 million people live in the world’s 32 Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs), spanning across Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. These nations face unique and complex development challenges. Their lack of direct …
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Carter was a man of decency and integrity who devoted his life to promoting peace and democracy. Credit: Courtesy Kul Chandra Gautam Opinion by Kul Chandra Gautam (kathmandu, nepal) Thursday, January 02, 2025 Inter Press Service KATHMANDU, Nepal, Jan 02 (IPS) – Former American President Jimmy Carter was a man of peace and principles. He presided over a tumultuous period in …
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by CIVICUS Thursday, January 02, 2025 Inter Press Service Jan 02 (IPS) – CIVICUS discusses the challenges Palestinian civil society faces in resisting digital suppression and advocating for justice with Palestinian lawyer and researcher Dima Samaro. As the director of Skyline International for Human Rights, Dima advocates for digital freedoms and human rights in the Middle East and North Africa …
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