UN migration agency and EU step up aid for 325,000 Yemenis in need — Global Issues

UN migration agency and EU step up aid for 325,000 Yemenis in need — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

Those in need will be provided with urgently needed shelter, health, cash, protection services and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) support.  The situation is also getting worse for migrants in Yemen, especially women – IOM mission chief Over the last seven years, the conflict in Yemen between a Saudi-led pro-Government coalition,…

UN migration agency and EU step up aid for 325,000 Yemenis in need — Global Issues

‘Largest-ever number’ in need, warns UN relief chief — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

Martin Griffiths, Humanitarian Affairs chief and Emergency Relief Coordinator, thanked donors for their contributions – totalling nearly $6.7 billion – which includes $2.4 billion earmarked for 2023 and beyond. I am thankful for the recent pledges made to support #Syria. It is now critical that these pledges be converted into…

UN migration agency and EU step up aid for 325,000 Yemenis in need — Global Issues

UN rights chief calls for end to ‘culture of impunity’ — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

Her appeal comes in the wake of the killing of Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh, who was fatally shot on Wednesday while covering an Israeli raid in Jenin, West Bank. The veteran Palestinian-American journalist was buried in East Jerusalem on Friday and huge crowds turned out for her funeral….

UN migration agency and EU step up aid for 325,000 Yemenis in need — Global Issues

UN envoy condemns latest Israeli settlement expansion plan — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

“I condemn today’s decision by Israeli authorities to advance plans for over 4,000 housing units in settlements in the occupied West Bank,” Tor Wennesland, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, said in a statement.  Israel’s Higher Planning Council, which approved the move, also retroactively legalized two outposts:…