Malnutrition has reached unprecedented levels amongst women & children in Eastern Africa. Health facilities are often too far & are no longer a sufficient solution. There must be a focus on prevention & treatment of malnutrition. Learn more🔽 🙏Sarah Zeid

PM Mia Amor Mottley reflects on Kofi Annan’s guiding values. #KofiAnnanLecture #UNGAxIPI “Trust and inclusion are indivisible… We need a New Internationalism, a truly inclusive United Nations and international system.”

I was greatly honoured by it & am full of gratitude. To be joined by my family and to share the stage with Lolita Jaskson, a close friend, also made it all the more special…

Reporting from #COP27 Intl Peace Institute team w/ #TheMaldives: Historic outcome today on Loss and Damage. Not only an agreement to establish a Loss and Damage Fund. Decision will initiate a dialogue among COP and IFIs, potentially unlocking new finance for vulnerable countries. #climate

So proud to see the outstanding Ministerial team led by Shauna Aminath 🎈❓ from #TheMaldives achieve such a stunning result at #COP27 on Loss and Damage. And happy our small team from Intl Peace Institute and Perry World House were able to share the experience with them.

This #InternationalWomensDay we're thinking of the #women & #girls giving birth in #crisis. Countries w/ a 2023 UN Humanitarian Appeal account for: ➡️64% of global #maternal deaths ➡️50% of newborn deaths ➡️51% of stillbirths No one should have to die giving birth. #IWD2023

Every person has a right to a safe and healthy birth experience and for their baby to be recognized in their own country, but as this NYT Magazine describes, this can be incredibly challenging in the most remote and hardest to reach places. #BornIntoCrisis #MNH nytimes.com/2023/03/29/mag…

More than 1/2 of #maternaldeaths occur in humanitarian & fragile settings. Global targets won't be met w/o addressing root causes & solutions to prevent these deaths. We look forward to continuing this conversation at #IMNHC2023. PMNCH Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus AlignMNH telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

It's out! The latest Inside Geneva podcast...fascinating insights from a man who doesn't mince his words. Thanks for your time Zeid Raad Al Hussein, former UN Human Rights chief.

.@UNFPAhas warned of the “nightmare” situation facing the 50,000 #pregnant women in #Gaza, as the enclave’s health system teeters on the brink of collapse. #BornIntoCrisis #MNH #MaternalHealth CNN cnn.com/middleeast/liv…

“This avalanche of human suffering is unprecedented in modern times” Dr Tanya Haj-Hassan, a pediatric intensive care doctor for Doctors Without Borders appeared on BBC News from Jordan to discuss the dire conditions in Gaza

It was a pleasure to host HRH Sarah Zeid in the #DRCongo 🇨🇩 - helping to put women and #GenderEquality at the heart of our work. 📢 This is all of our business and to do it right we must act now.

BREAKING: Stunning new report from James Elder of UNICEF documents how Israel is absolutely pulverizing the parts of Gaza where civilians were told to evacuate to "avoid" the bombing. Forcing civilians to leave home for their "safety" and then bombing them is shameful.⤵️

Mary Robinson reacts to the release of the draft text at #COP28: “It is not good enough to say you recognise and respect the science but then fail to take heed of its dire warnings in the collective action you commit to. It is not good enough to note with ‘alarm and serious

Rare access inside Gaza: Clarissa Ward, Scott McWhinnie, and Brent Swails visited an Emirati field hospital set up in the south and saw firsthand the effects of Israel's bombardment on the Strip's civilian population.

Here’s a piece in ⁦The Guardian⁩ I wrote about recent experiences while I was focusing on humanitarian relief in Gaza. ⁦JHU Humanitarian Health⁩ ⁦Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health⁩ ⁦ theguardian.com/global-develop…

"6.5 months of Israeli military operations have created what I saw on the ground, which is a humanitarian hellscape. I am terrified for the one million women and girls in #Gaza right now, and especially for the 180 women giving birth every single day." - Dominic Allen, UNFPA

Women in countries affected by #conflict are 3x more likely to go w/o a skilled birth attendant & 3x more likely to give birth outside of a health facility - heightening the risk of poor maternal and newborn health outcomes. #BornIntoCrisis Save the Children International telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

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The speech by Zeid Raad Al Hussein contained a wisdom and perspective that delegations to the UN need to hear more often so that they can insist the organization learn from its hard-won lessons. The final paragraph is 🔥 “the Security Council, and particularly its Permanent Members,