As the war in Gaza continues, health facilities and healthcare workers are struggling to provide care to civilians amidst unfavourable circumstances, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) team lead for emergencies communications Nyka Alexander said on Monday. 
In an interview with UN News’s Khaled Mohamed, she said nowhere is safe in the enclave with only one third of its hospitals – about 12 out of 36 – still functioning at limited capacity.
In addition, medical supplies are low, workers are stressed and it has become difficult to treat many of those displaced.  

Audio credit: Khaled Mohamed, UN News
Photo credit: UN News

Gaza war putting pressure on healthcare workers: WHO

•	Gaza: UN health agency’s Tedros calls for end to siege of Al-Awda hospital 
•	Ukraine: 16,000 uprooted by deadly Kharkiv escalation, humanitarians warn 
•	OCHA aid call for southern African nations suffering worst drought in 100 years #ElNiño

Audio Credit: Daniel Johnson, UN News
Audio Duration: 4'14"
Photo Credit: © UNRWA

News in Brief - 21 May 2024 - Gaza, Ukraine and Africa

Without immediate action to protect biodiversity, a million species could be at risk, warns David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity.

Due to unprecedented threat levels, he told UN News, coral reefs, amphibians, pollinating insects, and many large mammals are all on the brink of extinction due to rising temperatures, deforestation, pollution, and other factors. 

Speaking on the International Day for Biological Diversity, he told Anton Uspensky that most people support climate action, even if they don’t express it – and it’s time to leverage the power of this “invisible majority”.

Audio credit: Anton Uspensky, UN News
Audio: 11'10"
Photo credit: © Unsplash/Francesco Ungaro

Protecting biodiversity: Be part of the plan to save the planet

“The situation in Rafah has been significantly deteriorating since the initial evacuation orders were issued there on 6 May,” UNRWA spokesperson Louise Wateridge told UN News on Wednesday. “As this military operation has expanded further into Rafah, this has severely, severely restricted our ability and the wider humanitarian ability to provide aid, to provide services and in this case, to distribute food.”

Audio credit: Louise Wateridge, UN News
Audio duration 0'56"
Photo credit UNRWA/Louise Wateridge

UNRWA's Louise Wateridge updates on the situation in Rafah

UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Representative in Haiti Bruno Maes, is warning that Haiti’s health system is now “on the verge of collapse” amidst rising violence in the country.

Haiti’s health system pushed to breaking point: UNICEF

•	Gaza: Conflict in Rafah puts key relief supplies warehouses out of reach 
•	Geopolitical tensions threaten global trade, warns UN’s Amina Mohammed
•	Biodiversity breakdown alert: one million species under threat, says UNEP

Audio Credit: Daniel Johnson, UN News.
Audio: 4'30"
Photo Credit: © UNRWA

News in Brief - 22 May 2024 - Gaza, global trade and biodiversity

UN agencies and their partners are providing psychosocial services and other support to thousands of people from the Kharkiv region in Ukraine who have been evacuated from frontline areas where intensive Russian air strikes continue.  

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said vulnerable boys and girls are among those arriving at a humanitarian hub in the main city, Kharkiv. 

They include children with disabilities and those who had been living with foster families and will now need to be placed in new homes. 

UN News’s Nargiz Shekinskaya asked Munir Mammadzade, UNICEF Head in Ukraine, about the challenges displaced families face.

Audio credit: Nargiz Shekinskaya, UN News
Photo caption: The head of UNICEF in Ukraine Munir Mammadzade (right) and the Mayor of Kharkiv Igor Terekhov.
Photo credit:  © UNICEF in Ukraine

Ukraine: Accepting ‘new reality’ a challenge for Kharkiv evacuees

•	‘Appalling’ Russian attacks on Kharkiv region must end says top UN humanitarian in Ukraine
•	International action ‘crucial’ to save thousands of Rohingya lives in Myanmar
•	UN rights experts welcome maritime tribunal ruling obliging countries to cut CO2 pollution


Audio Credit: Matt Wells, UN News.
Audio: 3'46"
Photo Credit: © IOM

News in Brief - 23 May 2024 - Ukraine, Myanmar and CO2 pollution

Following the 7 October terror attacks led by Hamas, thousands of Palestinians have been detained in what the Israeli Government has dubbed an “incarceration emergency” allowing them to fill prisons beyond official capacity. 

The overcrowded detention facilities and reports of alleged degrading treatment and even torture, prompted Alice Jill Edwards, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment, to call for a full investigation into the overcrowding and reports of alleged abuses.

In an interview with UN News’s Anton Uspensky, she gave more details on what she’s learned.

Audio credit: Anton Uspensky, UN News
Audio: 4'14"
Photo credit: UN News

UN expert: 'Incarceration emergency' resulted in mistreatment and alleged torture of Palestinians

Shaza Moghraby, World Food Programme (WFP) Communications Officer, provides an update on the food crisis in Gaza and the round-the-clock effort to get more food to civilians in need.

CLIP – 23 May - WFP update on the Gaza aid effort

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