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“Allowing hate speech and harmful content online has real-world consequences. Regulating this content is not censorship,” Volker Türk wrote about X. In a longer LinkedIn post on the same theme, Mr. Türk argued that calling efforts to create safe online spaces “censorship…ignore[s] the fact that an unregulated space means some people are silenced – especially […]

“Since reports this morning of a raid at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, we have lost contact with staff there,” wrote WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus , on the social media platform “This development is deeply worrying given the number of patients being treated and people housed there,” he added. Northern Gaza is the

UN human rights chief Volker Türk said the darkest moment of the Gaza conflict is taking place in the northern Gaza Strip, where the Israeli army is effectively subjecting an entire population to bombing, siege and risk of starvation, while being forced to choose between mass displacement and imprisonment in an active conflict zone. “The

Hours after the campaign launched, reports said a health center in the north had been hit, injuring six people, including four children, in a location where a humanitarian pause had been put in place, according to the leader of the World Health Organization (WHO). . “We have received an extremely worrying report that the Sheikh

Richard Peeperkorn, of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the occupied Palestinian territory, said the goal was to reach all children in the north with the second and final dose. “We covered many more children than expected, but we missed some,” he told a video-linked briefing for journalists at UN headquarters on Monday, stressing that

On Monday, the Federal Ministry of Health, in partnership with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the World Health Organization (WHO) and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, rolled out vaccines for the war-scarred Sudanese population, making it the first country to benefit from it. The WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region will benefit. Malaria remains a leading cause

The study is the first global effort to systematically prioritize endemic pathogens based on their regional and global health impact. It reconfirms long-standing vaccine research and development (R&D) priorities, particularly for HIV, malaria and tuberculosis. three diseases that collectively cause nearly 2.5 million deaths each year. Particular attention is also being paid to pathogens such

According to a 2021 global survey, more than a third of responding healthcare organizations reported at least one ransomware attack in the previous year, and a third of them reported paying a ransom. Ransomware attacks are a form of cyberattack, in which a malicious actor “takes control” or “locks” files on a single computer or

Dr Hanan Balkhy, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, was speaking at a press briefing on emergencies in the occupied Palestinian territory and Lebanon, but also in war-ravaged Sudan and beyond. She also supported the crucial role of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, in Gaza and called for peace. “We urgently

The findings, based on data from nearly 280,000 young people aged 11, 13 and 15 in 44 countries, highlight a growing crisis in adolescent well-being, with economically disadvantaged girls and adolescents bearing the brunt affected. “Today’s adolescents face unprecedented challenges in their social environments“, said Dr Hans Kluge, WHO regional director for Europe, “with potentially