Bishow Parajuli, the World Food Programme’s (WFP) Representative and Country Director in India, remarked that despite the government’s efforts, the assistance provided is insufficient, particularly for the poorest sectors of the population who are facing job loss and pay loss.
In an interview with UN News on June 3, Parajuli said the Indian government had restored its assistance for the first COVID-19 wave, providing an additional five kg of cereal, rice, and wheat to help households and individuals.
India has a number of initiatives to address the food gap and nutritional concerns, according to Parajuli, but COVID has slowed them down. He emphasised the importance of paying attention to the nutritional needs of nursing and pregnant women, as well as children. According to a recent study, women often eat last and eat less, which is why the World Food Programme is lobbying for women to have equal access to food assistance.
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Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipina who has spent 14 years on death row in Indonesia, will be coming home but will stay behind bars for the immediate future after being transferred to the custody of Philippine authorities, officials said.
Many of the estimated 176,000 migrants living in Lebanon are African women who are working menial jobs.Many of them have been displaced since the start of the conflict and are facing uncertain futures.
Nicolas de Rivière,Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations, briefs reporters after the UN Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question.
This week marks 1,000 days of fighting in Ukraine.For millions of Ukrainians, including 32-year-old Oleh Reshetnyak and his loved ones in Kyiv, the mounting death toll, air raid sirens, and explosions have been a grim reality.
James Kariuki,Deputy Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations and President of the Security Council for the Month of November, chairs the Security Council meeting on the situation in Libya.
Over half a million people, many of them were refugees who initially fled the Syrian conflict, have fled Lebanon into Syria in the last two months.According to those returning to Idlib, Syria’s last opposition stronghold, they are fleeing to a location that is marginally safer than Lebanon,without homes, jobs or humanitarian aid waiting for them.
The World Bank is helping Malawi’s most vulnerable communities in coping with the effects of the drought and storms that the country has been facing since 2022.Increased community involvement, according to participants, would result in more immediate program outcomes.
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