Held in the MENA region for the second year in a row, the UN’s annual Climate Change Conference, COP28, offered a chance to reinforce the need to tackle the effect of the climate emergency on the world’s populations – especially those living amid conflict and displacement.
Three key areas world leaders meeting at the UN Climate Summit in Dubai must prioritize to strengthen the hands of humanitarian organizations such as the World Food Programme
To mark International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on 25 November, a look at how the World Food Programme is enabling girls to return to school amid unwanted teenage pregnancies
Securing supply corridors and a pause in hostilities to enable safe humanitarian access are critical to save lives as conflict shows no sign of letting up
As war enters its second month, Palestinians lay bare their needs for food, medical supplies and that ever elusive antidote to food insecurity... peace
Three weeks of near-constant bombardment in Gaza have left its entire population in desperate and catastrophic conditions. The World Food Programme (WFP) is striving to reach over 1 million people for whom water and food are running out. Here, one WFP employee (who prefers not to be identified) describes the horror, the personal grief of losing at least seven family members as well as some friends, her dreams for a better future, and why her work must go on in the face of it all.
WFP urgently needs US$18.8 million so Afghanistan’s earthquake survivors can eat and rebuild from the country’s latest disaster, and US$400 million to help the most vulnerable survive harsh weather
