International Human Solidarity Day

UN Geneva press briefing chaired by Alessandra Vellucci, Director, UN Information Service. Conflict in Lebanon. Marcoluigi Corsi, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Country Representative in Lebanon, connecting from Beirut, stated that in just three weeks, more than 370,000 children had been forced out of their homes in Lebanon, an average of at least 19,000 girls and boys displaced every single day. This was the equivalent of hundreds of school buses filled with children fleeing for their lives every 24 hours. In less than a single month, 20 per cent of Lebanon's population had been displaced, and more than one million people were now uprooted. Mr. Corsi stressed that the mental and emotional exhaustion weighing on the children of Lebanon was devastating. Before having a single moment to heal from the trauma of the last escalation just 15 months ago, they were being violently uprooted all over again. Today, over 135,000 internally displaced persons were seeking refuge i...

UN Geneva press briefing chaired by Alessandra Vellucci, Director, UN Information Service. Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, which was attended by spokespersons and representatives from the United Nations Refugee Agency, the World Health Organization, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Human Rights Council and the International Labour Organization. UNHCR: Urgent support needed as 32,000 Congolese refugees return home from Burundi Ali Mahamat, United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) Head of Office in Goma (Democratic Republic of Congo), said more than 33,000 Congolese refugees had spontaneously returned from Burundi to eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in a month. Most returnees were crossing through the Kavimvira border point, near Uvira in South Kivu Province. They had fled to Burundi in December 2025, when fighting between the Armed Forces of the Democratic Re...