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The global funding crisis for humanitarian work is taking a growing toll on the most vulnerable children in Somalia, where some aid programmes and facilities have been forced to shut down.

UNITED NATIONS, August 21 (IPS) - As the global HIV response shifts toward sustainable, nationally led, and rights-based care, a new UNAIDS framework published this week argues that integration must start with a country's readiness.

Cockroach Insult Unleashes Biggest Challenge yet to Modi's Repressive Rule

UNITED NATIONS, August 20 (IPS) - World Humanitarian Day celebrates humanitarian workers and the life-saving services they provide under the most complex and often dangerous conditions.

ROME, August 20 (IPS) - FIVE years after the Taliban returned to power, Fawzia Koofi, the former Deputy Speaker of the Afghan Parliament, denounces what she describes as "gender apartheid."

Ten days after a powerful earthquake struck western Colombia, an estimated 1.2 million people need humanitarian assistance, while some communities have still received little or no aid, UN agencies said on Thursday.

Ninety-four cent of Gaza's 2.1 million residents need shelter as Israeli gunfire and strikes continue inside the enclave, UN agencies and peacekeepers warned on Thursday.

Children, who are particularly vulnerable to the disease, account for half of the 46 suspected mpox cases identified in Guinea-Bissau - with 16 of them under the age of four.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) will receive 70,000 doses of the Ervebo vaccine from the UN's international vaccine coordination group (ICG) to protect frontline communities against the Ebola virus disease.

The under-reported humanitarian crisis in South Sudan risks deepening with the real possibility of further atrocity crimes unless renewed fighting stops, a UN-backed probe said on Thursday.