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UN Women had spoken to 855 women's organizations, working in 52\ncountries, who said that these women and girls had been turned away due to\nfunding cuts that were dismantling their organizations.\n\nCases of conflict-related sexual violence had doubled in 2025\nand yet nearly two thirds of women's organizations said that safe spaces and\ngender-based violence services had been significantly reduced, or were no\nlonger available, in their communities. Some 9 in 10 women's organizations noted\nan increase in poverty among the women they served, 8 in 10 an increase in\ngirls dropping out of school, and 7 in 10 an increase in forced marriage.\n\nIn this context, and as the level of armed conflict had now reached\nits highest level in decades, 4 in 10 women's organizations working in\nhumanitarian crises expected to close in the next 12 months. Nearly two-thirds\nof the surveyed organizations said that their staff were working without pay to\nkeep critical support for women and girls afloat.\n\nThe cuts to women's organizations were happening when women's\nrights were being eroded. These two things were deeply connected. Funding\nshortfalls deepened inequality and division, both of which were very costly; at\nthe same time, women's organizations were highly cost-effective. UN Women called\nfor immediate action from donors and the humanitarian community to prioritize\nfunding for women's organizations.\n\nAnswering questions from\njournalists, Ms. Calltorp underlined two reinforcing trends: funding cuts that\nhad an immediate effect on critical services to women and girls, and, at the\nsame time, an erosion of women's organizations' leadership and capacity to work\nwithin their communities. Women organizations were the backbone of humanitarian\nresponse: without those community-led responses, access was extremely difficult\nfor international actors, Ms. Calltorp stressed.\n\nRead the press\nrelease.\n\nHealth situation in Sudan\n\nShible Sahbani, World Health Organization\n(WHO) Representative to Sudan, said that despite relentless humanitarian\nefforts and the dedication of Sudan's health leadership and workers, the\nhumanitarian and health situation in Sudan remained concerning. More than 33\nmillion people needed assistance, including 21 million requiring health\nservices. Despite recent returns, displacement also remained high, with 13.4\nmillion people displaced, of which nearly 9 million internally.\n\nOutbreaks of dengue, malaria, measles,\nmeningitis, hepatitis E were affecting several states. A new cholera outbreak had\nbeen declared on 27 June: from West Kordofan, the disease had since spread to\nNorth Kordofan, Central Darfur and South Darfur, causing more than 1,330 cases\nand 114 deaths – a case fatality rate of 13.7 percent, which was very high. WHO\nwas particularly concerned by the spread of cholera to El Obeid (North Kordofan),\nwhere health facilities were overwhelmed and access to care very limited. Beyond\ncholera, WHO was deeply concerned about the broader humanitarian needs and\ngrowing protection risks facing the people of El Obeid, echoing what had unfolded\nin El Fasher last year.\n\nWHO was coordinating the cholera response by\nstrengthening surveillance, case management, infection prevention and control,\ncommunity engagement, and the distribution of supplies. WHO had prepositioned\n64 metric tons of cholera kits across Sudan to support its response.\n\nIn a context where immense health needs were placing\nenormous pressure on the health system, the commitment of health workers and\nhealth authorities was remarkable. But without adequate financing, neither\npartners nor the health system could meet the scale of the needs. More than\nhalfway through the year, WHO's humanitarian appeal for Sudan was less than 15\npercent funded. However, even amid the\nconflict, WHO was planning for recovery, rehabilitation, rebuilding, which was\na powerful sign of hope.\n\nAnswering questions from journalists, Mr. Sahbani\nsaid WHO was investing to strengthen the Sudanese health system, so that it\ncould respond to all needs regardless of the status of the population: refugees,\nIDPs, returnees, or host population. At the same time, WHO must respond to\nacute needs in Sudan, like cholera. For this, WHO had asked USD 167 million: only\n11 percent of this amount had been obtained, which was very low at the seventh month\nof 2026.\n\nThe situation in El Obeid, Mr. Sahbani noted, continued\nto worsen, with a risk that it became a second Al Fasher, or worse. WHO was struggling to deploy its staff and send\nsupplies there. The UN Security Council had expressed concern over the imminent\nrisk of mass atrocities and had demanded an immediate end to the assault, which\ncould help WHO to access the area. The Organization had already prepositioned\nsupplies to be able to meet the health needs of more than 25,000 people, but\nthat would not suffice, Mr. Sahbani admitted. WHO called for respect of the\nsanctity of health and for the protection of health workers, he added.\n\nFinally, Mr. Sahbani warned that \"all the\ningredients in the country were there\" to have new waves of cholera: lack of access,\nlack of water and sanitation, displacement of people who may be infected and\nmoving from one state to another. WHO's role was to strengthen the EWARS, the \"early warning alert and response system\",\nto detect cases and respond before the outbreak could spread in all states.\nUnfortunately, lack of access was a major issue in implementing this warning\nsystem everywhere; another issue was a lack of funding to preposition cholera\nkits where necessary.\n\nMs. Vellucci, for the United Nations\nInformation Service, reiterated the UN's appeal for increased, timely and\nflexible funding. The 2026 humanitarian response plan of the UN was less than\none-third funded, having received USD 930 million, out of the nearly USD 2.9\nbillion that were needed. It was an urgent appeal to all donors to fund the\nUN's life-saving activities in Sudan.\n\nWMO Airborne Dust Bulletin shows sand and dust\nstorm hotspots and impacts\n\nClare Nullis, for the World Meteorological\nOrganization (WMO) said the European Union, in monthly figures released yesterday,\nhad pointed to the hottest June on record in parts of Western Europe, and to the\nsecond hottest June in Western Europe as a whole. Sea surface temperatures globally\nwere also the highest on record, which meant more heat to come.\n\nSpain's Fabra Observatory – one of WMO's\nlong-term observing stations – had recorded 40.5 degrees Celsius on 8 July, the\nhighest temperature there in more than one century of data. France was seeing\nextreme temperatures too, including dangerously high overnight temperatures. Furthermore,\nheat, very dry soils, drought and low humidity had combined to lead to a high\nfire danger level. Devastating fires were raging, particularly in Spain, with\nloss of life. The WMO was working closely with the World Health\nOrganization to mobilize heat health action plans to save lives and to protect livelihoods.\n\nLeilani Dulguerov, of the Global Atmospheric\nWatch Team at WMO, then presented the tenth edition\nof the WMO Airborne Dust Bulletin, which\nprovided an annual assessment of major sand and dust storm events in 2025 and\nadvances in monitoring and forecasting.\n\nAirborne dust was a truly global problem. Dust\nemitted from major sources in North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia could be\ntransported thousands of kilometres, affecting air quality, weather, climate,\necosystems, transportation, agriculture, and public health. The Bulletin showed\nthat global dust conditions in 2025 had been comparable to those in 2024, with regional\nvariations.\n\nA widespread East Asian dust outbreak had thus reached\nparts of southern China rarely affected by such events: inhalable particulate\nmatter (PM) levels had reached 3,000 to 4,000 micrograms per cubic meter in\nnorthern China. Another exceptionally active dust season had been observed\nalong the border of Mexico and the United States: levels had peaked at more\nthan 8,000 micrograms per cubic meter in El Paso, Texas, forcing the closure of\nschools and airports. 45 micrograms per cubic meter was the 24-hour threshold\nconsidered by the WHO air quality guidelines.\n\nTaking questions from the press, Sara Basart, Scientific\nOfficer and Report Coordinator at WMO, noted that, at concentrations in the thousands\nof micrograms per cubic meter, health risks were related not only to breathing,\nbut also to scratching eyes and skin. During these extreme events, the\nrecommendation was to stay at home. Another question was raised regarding the\neffect of dust storms on meningitis. Ms. Nullis said that there had been\nprogress in dealing with this problem: meteorological authorities tried to\nprovide forecasts and information to enable health authorities to act on, vaccinations\nbeing a very important part of that.\n\nMs. Nullis also said WMO was working to improve\nforecasts of fire risks.\n\nMs. Dulguerov noted that the 2025 Bulletin showed\nimportant scientific advances in, for instance, artificial intelligence and\nmachine learning for dust forecasting. Ms.\nNullis and Ms. Dulguerov gave examples of the use of AI to support better meteorological\nand flooding forecasting, and to identify hotspots and their causes.\n\nMs. Vellucci stressed that 12 July would be not\nonly the International\nDay of Combating Sand and Dust Storms, but also the International Day of\nHope.\n\nElection of the next\nUN Secretary-General\n\nFinally, a question was raised on one candidate\nto the election of the next UN Secretary-General. Ms. Vellucci reminded that\nthis process was in the hands of the President of the General Assembly and\nMember States.","categories":["Media","Press Conferences"],"geographic_subject":["SUDAN"],"subject_topical":["HEALTH","CHOLERA","WOMEN","WEATHER","ATMOSPHERE"],"corporate_name":["WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION - WHO","WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION - WMO","UNITED NATIONS ENTITY FOR GENDER EQUALITY AND THE EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN - UN-WOMEN"],"speaker_affiliation":[],"related_documents":[]},"transcript":{"transcript_id":"scheduled-eb519b09-7ac8-4965-b822-00d1f36d0f95","language":"en","data":[{"statement_number":1,"paragraphs":[{"sentences":[{"text":"Good morning.","start":1.41,"end":1.783,"topics":[],"words":[{"text":"Good","start":1.41,"end":1.572},{"text":"morning.","start":1.572,"end":1.783}]},{"text":"Welcome to the press briefing of the UN Information Service here in 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