UNITED NATIONS, May 24 (Xinhua) -- An official of the World Food Programme (WFP) on Thursday applauded a newly adopted UN Security Council resolution that condemns the use of starvation of civilians as a method of warfare. At a press conference at the UN headquarters in New York, Muhannad ...
UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- The departing chief of the UN humanitarian office for the Occupied Palestinian Territory said on Thursday he witnessed the complete exhaustion of civilians in the last 10 months. Andrea De Domenico, head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian A...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, right, meets with Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Carl Skau, second from left, during his visit to the WFP headquarters ahead of a G7 foreign ministers’ meeting, in Rome, Monday, Nov. 25, 2024. (Andreas So...
The United Nations’ World Food Programme Director, David Beasley, is still hopeful Tesla CEO Elon Musk will “step up” to help solve world hunger. The comments come after the two disagreed with one another last year. Musk made comments regarding Beasley’s opinions of his wealth, and how ...
This article is published in association withUnited Nations. Describing the level of devastation across the Gaza Strip as “absolutely staggering”, the Head of Emergency Communications for the World Food Programme (WFP) has toldUN Newsin an interview that civilians are desperate for lifesaving aid...
UNITED NATIONS - A UN official on Thursday called for a reinvigorated multilateral system for peace in order to address the root causes of hunger. A quarter billion people suffered from acute food insecurity last year, the highest number recorded in recent years. Of these people, some 376,000...
UN agencies are United Nations includes the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), World Food Programme (WFP), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), United Nations Development Programme(UNDP...
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon echoed these founding ideals in his address: “we continue to show what collective action can do. We can do even more. In a world that is more connected, we must be more united. On United Nations Day, let us pledge to live up to our founding ideals and...
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In March, the United Nations may also have to cancel most humanitarian flights in Yemen due to a lack of funds. Such a move would cause enormous problems for the aid operation, and for the movement of UN staff, he warned. Looming disruptions to water and sanitation services -- again for...