UN’s Grandi welcomes EU deal overhauling regional migration system

UN’s Grandi welcomes EU deal overhauling regional migration system

Agreement in Brussels on the New Pact on Migration and Asylum reportedly followed three years of intense negotiations, and it should start taking effect in 2024. The deal will attempt to distribute migrants more evenly across the bloc, providing enhanced support and coordination for processing claims away from frontier states such as Italy and Greece,…

Read More
Barely a drop of safe water to drink in Gaza, UN aid agency warns

Barely a drop of safe water to drink in Gaza, UN aid agency warns

“Access to sufficient amounts of clean water is a matter of life and death…children in Gaza have barely a drop to drink,” said UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell. “Children and their families are having to use water from unsafe sources that are highly salinated or polluted. Without safe water, many more children will die from deprivation…

Read More
INTERVIEW: Destruction, displacement, and grief. Senior UNRWA official reflects on ‘unprecedented’ conflict in Gaza

INTERVIEW: Destruction, displacement, and grief. Senior UNRWA official reflects on ‘unprecedented’ conflict in Gaza

135 UNRWA staff members are known to have been killed in Gaza since the escalation of fighting since the 7 October Hamas attacks on Israel. That’s the most ever in one incident but, despite the danger and extremely difficult working conditions, UNRWA is continuing to assist those caught up in the fighting through no fault…

Read More
Former Chairman Drap arrested in fake degree and corruption case

Former Chairman Drap arrested in fake degree and corruption case

Islamabad: FIA arrested former chairman Drap in fake degree and corruption case. Special Judge Central Court Islamabad Shahrukh Arjamand dismissed the pre-arrest bail of former chairman DRAP in the fake degree case, after which FIA arrested Sheikh Akhtar Hussain on charges of fake degree and corruption. The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) took Sheikh Akhtar Hussain…

Read More