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India, WFP discuss challenges to global humanitarian efforts on UNGA sidelinesIndia's Secretary (West) Sibi George held separate meetings with WFP Acting Executive Director Carl Skau and EU Commissioner Apostolos Tzit...- India's food transformation key to global hunger fight as Western funding drops: WFP Deputy ChiefAs global hunger soars due to conflict and funding cuts, the WFP highlights India's transformation into a key aid supplier. India's innovat...
- UN to use Israel's pause to try to reach Gaza's starvingUnited Nations plans to help starving people in Gaza. This follows Israel's announcement of secure land routes for aid. The World Food Prog...
- Carney demands Israel lift Gaza blockade as hunger crisis deepens ahead of Canadian electionLiberal Leader Mark Carney urged Israel to allow aid into Gaza, where the WFP reports dwindling food supplies due to a prolonged blockade. ...
- Myanmar earthquake: A nation unprepared for disasterMyanmar, already weakened by four years of civil war, faces new hardships following a 7.7-magnitude earthquake that killed more than 1,600 ...
- Israel's Gaza evacuation order could breach international law: UNSpeaking to reporters in Geneva, Ravina Shamdasani, spokesperson for the U.N. human rights office, said Israel seemed to have made no effor...
- India says ready to provide assistance, support to Afghan people following devastating Earthquake"At the outset, I express our deepest condolences to the victims and their families, and to all those impacted by the devastating earthquak...
- India supplies another 40,000 metric tonnes of diesel to crisis-hit Sri LankaOn Friday, the mission here said that an Indian ship laden with urgent relief supplies like rice, medicines and milk powder for the people ...
- India at UNSC reiterates call for cessation of violence in UkraineIndia's Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, R Ravindra said: "Humanitarian action must always be guided by the principles of humanit...
- Pakistan grants two months extension to India for transportation of wheat, medicines to AfghanistanForeign Office said that the time period granted for transportation of the humanitarian assistance expired on March 21 and the Government o...
- India at UNSC reiterates call for 'unimpeded humanitarian access to areas of armed conflict in Ukraine'"India remains deeply concerned at the ongoing situation, which continues to deteriorate since the beginning of the hostilities. We reitera...
- Pakistan turns down India's wheat transit proposal: ReportPakistan last week formally informed India about its decision to allow the transportation of wheat and life saving drugs to neighbouring Af...
- 16 million Yemenis are 'marching towards starvation': United NationsWorld Food Program is running out of money again and without new funding reductions will be made in rations for 3.2 million people in Octob...
- Torture cannot be justified in any situation, UN experts tell Afghanistan's new regimeExperts serving on the UN human rights treaty body expressed particular concern over the situation of people in Afghanistan deprived of lib...
- UN food agency World Food Programme wins Nobel Peace Prize 2020 for its efforts to combat hungerEthiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali was awarded the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize.
- Food, fuel prices skyrocketing in Nepal due to blockade: UNThe UN World Food Programme warned of severe shortages of food and fuel in Nepal caused by the ongoing major disruptions in imports.
- Ebola outbreak 'running' ahead of world's response: UN officialThe UN CERF has so far committed $ 13.4 million to support food and health operations as well as the regional humanitarian air service.
- UN: Myanmar cyclone assistance reaching more people, but food aid costs soaringMore survivors of Myanmar's cyclone disaster are receiving assistance, although in many cases the supply has not been consistent and doesn'...
- Myanmar invites relief experts from AsiaMyanmar's junta has appealed for aid personnel from Bangladesh, China, India and Thailand to help its relief efforts for victims of Cyclone...
- UN agency lauds creative efforts to fight global hunger in 2007The United Nations World Food Programme has hailed new, creative efforts in 2007 that galvanized more support in the fight against global h...
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