UN News Today

• Myanmar’s spiral into poverty: UNDP
• On World Sight Day, cheap reading glasses still out of reach: WHO
• 235,000 Gazans living hundreds of flood-prone sites

• Two in three child migrants travel alone to Europe
• Ebola alert: WHO chief voices solidarity with Kenya and Uganda after patient dies in Nairobi
• Yemen health funding facing critical shortages warns WHO

• “Nothing can justify” 7 October attacks: Guterres
• In Pakistan, UN chief calls for end to US-Iran war
• Ebola robs children of the people they depend on: UNICEF

• Sudan: Driver killed in aerial attack on clearly marked aid trucks in South Kordofan
• 3.4 billion people across the globe lack adequate housing, which the UN calls a critical human right
• UN urges better social protection schemes in Asia and the Pacific as extreme weather intensifies

• Haiti emergency: Extortion, gang violence and hunger prevail, warns UN rights chief – OHCHR
• Ukraine war threatens even greater regional disaster and must end: Türk
• Gaza: WHO appeals for massive aid influx before winter sets in