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To address the growing cancer burden in Arab States, the IAEA is supporting capacity development in ARASIA States Parties in the areas of nuclear medicine, radiation oncology and in the production of radiopharmaceuticals.

Blog post by UN Deputy Special Coordinator, Resident, and Humanitarian Coordinator for Lebanon, Imran Riza

The social protection system in Lebanon has always been weak, fragmented, and suffered from lack of financing. An overarching National Social Policy Framework was nonexistent, making it harder for donors and the international community to support at speed and at scale.

Flexible working hours can advance economies and businesses while helping employees and families achieve a better work-life balance, according to a new report launched by the International Labour Organization (ILO) on Friday.

Issues surrounding working hours and conditions are “at the heart of most labour market reforms and evolutions taking place in the world today”, Branch Chief Philippe Marcadent said in the foreword to ILO’s Working Time and Work-Life Balance Around the World.

A UN Security Council Resolution that ensures millions of people in northwest Syria receive lifesaving aid through cross-border deliveries from Türkiye, must be extended, a group of independent human rights experts said on Wednesday. 

They warned of the dire consequences of not renewing Resolution 2642, which is set to expire on 10 January. 

The UN chief paid tribute to Pope Emeritus Benedict on Saturday, who has died, aged 95, after standing down as head of the Catholic Church nearly a decade ago, due to ill health.

Secretary-General António Guterres said he had learned of his passing, “with great sadness”, describing him as a “humble man of prayer and study.”

According to the latest UN survey, released on Friday, the Arab region registered a 12 per cent unemployment rate in 2022, the highest in the world.

Since her graduation, Alissar, a 22-year-old nurse, has pulled up her sleeves to join other frontline healthcare workers in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic and now cholera, two viral outbreaks that have stretched the healthcare system in the country. Along with other nurses, doctors, and infectious disease specialists at the Diarrheal Treatment Center (DTC) in Tripoli Governmental Hospital, Alissar is today contributing to curbing the spread of cholera in North Lebanon as the second month of the cholera outbreak unfolds in the country.

Last night a peacekeeper was killed and three others were injured in an incident in the area of Al-Aqbieh, just outside UNIFIL’s area of operations in south Lebanon.

We offer our deepest condolences to the friends, family, and colleagues of the peacekeeper who died.

We are hopeful for a full and fast recovery for those injured.

UN-Habitat Lebanon Country Programme and the National Commission for Lebanese Women (NCLW) launched the National Women and Land Campaign in Lebanon, through a roundtable event in Beirut. Gathering key stakeholders, media, women’s organizations, and legal entities, the event shed important light on the legal context of women’s rights to housing, land, and property (HLP rights) in Lebanon.

What exactly is hate speech, how does it undermine human rights, and who is responsible for tackling it? UNiting Against Hate, a new series from UN Podcasts, discusses these issues with people who have directly experienced hate speech; and the activists and experts around the world who are working to counter it.

Tendayi Achiume, an independent UN human rights expert, who monitors racism and related intolerance, worries that in recent years there has been an “unleashing” of formerly marginal kinds of discourse.  from anti-Semitism, to anti-black racism, and Islamophobia.