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For the full API guide (search, listing, URL grammar) see /llms.txt.","textUrl":"/en/briefing/geneva/2026-08-14.txt","guide":"/llms.txt"},"video":{"id":"k1g/k1gq70j9gn","kaltura_id":"1_gq70j9gn","title":"UN Geneva Press Briefing: WHO, UNFPA, WFP, UNHCR","clean_title":"UN Geneva Press Briefing: WHO, UNFPA, WFP, UNHCR","url":"https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1g/k1gq70j9gn","date":"2026-08-14T00:00:00.000Z","scheduled_time":"2026-08-14T08:30:00.000Z","status":"finished","duration":"01:06:53","category":"Press Conferences","body":null,"event_code":null,"event_type":null,"session_number":null,"pv_symbol":"BRIEFING/GENEVA/2026-08-14","pv_part":1,"slug":"briefing/geneva/2026-08-14"},"metadata":{"summary":"UN Geneva press briefing chaired by Alessandra Vellucci, Director, UN Information Service","description":"WHO Update\non Attacks on Health Care\n\nAltaf\nMusani, Director of Humanitarian and Disaster Management at the World Health\nOrganization (WHO), said WHO's Surveillance System for Attacks on Health\nCare had documented, since 2018, more than 10,400 attacks in\n29 countries and territories, resulting in approximately 5,700 deaths and 8,500\ninjuries. In 2026 alone, WHO had recorded 914 attacks, resulting in at least 911\ndeaths and 1,486 injuries, more than four attacks a day. Ukraine, Lebanon, and\nthe occupied Palestinian territory accounted for most of incidents recorded. Other\ncontexts with reported attacks on healthcare included Myanmar, Iran, Sudan, the\nDemocratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan, the Russian Federation, Syria,\nand Nigeria. There were multiple forms of violence, with heavy weapons were the\nmost frequently reported means of attack in 2026.\n\nAttacks on\nhealthcare extended beyond direct physical violence. Also, numbers did not tell\nthe whole story. When a hospital was attacked, the impact was not only on the\npeople inside that hospital: it meant that the patients could not receive care the\nnext day, that health workers could not return to work, or that medicine supply\ncould no longer reach facilities.\n\nWHO now\nhad evidence that the consequences of these attacks could be substantial and\nlong-lasting. In northwest Syria, a study of 69 attacks had found outpatient\nconsultations falling by 51 percent the day after an attack, with the reduction\ncontinuing for up to 37 days. In Sudan, 37 percent of health facilities were\nreported non-functional by 2026. In Gaza, all 36 hospitals had been damaged,\nwith only half remaining partially functional; primary care was similarly\nimpacted. In Ukraine, WHO had verified more than 3,000 attacks since the\nbeginning of the conflict, affecting not only health facilities but also\nambulances, warehouses, and supply chains. In the Democratic Republic of the\nCongo, during the current Bundibugyo virus disease response, 12 attacks on\nhealth care had been verified since May 2026; these attacks also impeded the\ncapacity to detect and contain outbreaks.\n\nBehind\nevery damaged facility was a service lost and behind every interrupted service was\nsomeone who may be left without care. It was necessary to make these human\nconsequences visible, to use that evidence to protect healthcare and the people\nwho depended on it, and to hold parties to conflicts accountable.\n\nJournalists\nasked in what measure accountability for attacks against healthcare was\nenforced. Mr. Musani explained that WHO had neither the mandate nor the\nexpertise to hold to account parties to a conflict: its mandate was centered on\ndata and evidence collection, to verify such attacks; on advocacy, calling out\nand appealing for the protection of the medical mission or healthcare at large;\nand on coordination with other partners. WHO's Director-General repeatedly\ncalled for parties to conflicts to be held accountable. Unfortunately, of the\nmore than 10,000 verified incidents mentioned, not even one had entered the\naccountability system.\n\nOther\nquestions were raised on attacks on healthcare in Palestine. Alessandra\nVellucci, for the UN Information Service, pointed journalists to a news report by UNIS, in which\nAjith Sunghay, head of the UN office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, spoke\nextensively about the situation and appealed to the Israeli security forces to\nstop the siege.\n\nRegarding\nUkraine, Mr. Musani said that more than six months into 2026, some 156 attacks on\nhealthcare had been recorded in that country, including one last week against a\nWHO warehouse. Attacks were clearly affecting the Organization's ability to\nprovide supplies to health facilities, both on the front line and doing the\nbackend work, supporting rehabilitation. This was having\na direct impact on both patients and providers, who were actively providing\nlife-saving support.\n\nWHO had\nalso recorded attacks on healthcare during the Middle East conflict, in Lebanon,\nIsrael, and Iran.\n\nSudan: Maternal\nhealth challenges in Darfur\n\nFabrizia\nFalcione, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)\nSudan Country Representative, back from Darfur, said she had traveled to the\nTawila refugee camp to see and hear firsthand what women and girls were facing,\nand to determine what must be done urgently to strengthen reproductive health\nservices and protection.\n\nArriving\nin Tawila, one was confronted with an unimaginable picture: more than 700,000 persons\nsheltering in a displacement camp stretching across the desert in all\ndirections, with new families arriving daily and erecting their makeshift\ntents. One hospital must provide comprehensive emergency obstetric care, and\nthat was the only place where a woman could have a C-section.\n\nPriorities\nwere, first, to bring reproductive healthcare closer to women, so that pregnant\nwomen had other option than going across a vast and difficult terrain to reach\na hospital to give birth safely. Healthcare must be decentralized and mobile\nservices expanded to reach those most difficult to reach. It was also necessary\nto better support community midwives, as a well-trained and properly equipped\nmidwife could meet 90 percent of the medical needs before, during, and\nimmediately after the delivery.\n\nAnother\npriority was to urgently get more reproductive health supplies, including\nfamily planning, into Darfur. In particular, health facilities in Tawil and\nacross Central/North Darfur were running out of their stock of oxytocin, which was\nused to stop fatal bleeding during childbirth. These kinds of supplies were often\nnot prioritized when it came to funding.\n\nAnswering\nquestions from the media, Ms. Falcione said her own travel to Tawila had been a\nnine-hour drive, with only an hour on paved road, the rest across mountain\ntracks that were made for donkeys and camels. Pregnant women faced even more difficult\nconditions to get to this camp: they often had absolutely no money, so they could\nnot even rent a donkey; they either had to walk, or travel on wooden stretchers\ncarried by men on foot.\n\nFrom a\npermit point of view, access for the UN was now easier. In Tawila, there were already\nseveral UN organizations present, including UNFPA, as well as NGOs providing\nbasic emergency obstetric care.\n\nFunding was\nlimited to the point where UNFPA must close certain services in order to maintain\nservice delivery in areas with higher needs. UNFPA had just received USD 1.8\nmillion for reproductive health supplies: these would go mainly to Darfur.\n\nUNFPA also\nworked closely with UN Women to support women-led organizations, so that these\norganizations could act as partners to humanitarian entities.\n\nSouth\nSudan: Funding shortfalls threatening life-saving assistance for refugees\n\nAdham\nEffendi, World Food Programme (WFP) Deputy Country Director for South\nSudan, warned that the funding situation for WFP in South Sudan was gearing towards\na humanitarian funding cliff, as humanitarian needs outpaced available resources\ndespite unprecedented operational efforts.\n\nWFP had\nalready delivered more than 55,000 metric tons of food assistance this year,\ndistributed cash assistance worth USD 70 million and reached 2.9 million people\nas of the end of July 2026. Yet these efforts were no longer enough to keep apace\nwith growing needs. Without immediate and urgent funding, the final food and\nnutrition assistance for the most vulnerable 240,000 refugees across the\ncountry would be provided in September. From 1 October, food assistance for\napproximately 180,000 internally displaced people would cease because of\npipeline breaks affecting general food assistance. By November, some 600,000\npeople living in famine risk areas would no longer receive life-saving food\nassistance.\n\nIn a\ncountry where 7.8 million people faced acute food insecurity and 2.2 million\nchildren were acutely malnourished, shrinking humanitarian funding was no\nlonger a resource gap, it was a direct reduction in life-saving assistance for\nthose least able to cope.\n\nWhen food\nassistance stopped, families were forced into impossible choices. People cut meals,\nsold productive assets, withdrew children from school, and adopted other negative\ncoping strategies. Women and children faced heightened risks of exploitation\nand abuse.\n\nMesfin\nDegefu, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Deputy\nRepresentative in South Sudan, said the Refugee Agency sounded the alarm not\njust about hunger, but also about the severity of the broader protection\nconsequences that arose when refugee families lost access to the assistance they\ndepended on to survive. Funding cuts had already forced UNHCR to scale down\nservices. For many refugee families, food assistance was not simply a source of\nnutrition: it was a critical protection intervention, as when they got food, families\nkept their children in school, which in turn reduced the risk of exploitation.\n\nThe 240,000\nrefugees mentioned by WFP were part of the 650,000 refugees currently in South\nSudan, of whom 90 percent were from Sudan, where the situation was dire. For\nthe Refugee Agency, one of the most concerning consequences was the increased\nrisk of cross-border movements, as when people could no longer meet their most\nbasic needs, they may feel compelled to move again in search of food, services,\nand safety. Indeed, some refugees had already requested that UNHCR help them\nreturn to Sudan. However, UNHCR did not promote nor support return to Sudan as\nthe current situation in that country was not favorable for the return.\n\nUN\nagencies, in collaboration with the Government of South Sudan, had made\ntangible progress in advancing refugee self-reliance. Authorities were thus allocating\nagricultural land and humanitarian agencies provided vocational training and\nenterprise training, to help families move into a sustainable livelihood and wage\nemployment. Early results were very promising. This was why the timing of this\nfunding gap was so damaging.\n\nJournalists\nasked how much money both agencies needed to get their operations back on track.\nMr. Effendi said the World Food Programme was looking at approximately USD 86\nmillion to sustain the rest of its operation during the last quarter of 2026. Overall,\nover 50 percent of the 14 million persons living in South Sudan required food\nassistance during the lean season. One must take into accounts the effects of\nfloods, which had been the trend in these past 5-6 years, and the adverse\nconsequences of El Nino and other climate shocks pushing additional population\ninto extreme hunger. Mr. Degefu said UNHCR needed USD 286 million for the\nentire of 2026: it had received only 28 percent of this sum. Between USD 20 and\n50 million would permit the Agency to continue life-saving assistance until the\nend of 2026.\n\nUpdate on\nthe Earthquake in Colombia\n\nEujin Byun,\nfor the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, said the\nearthquake in Colombia was particularly concerning because it had struck areas –\n69 affected municipality across eight departments – that were already facing\nsignificant humanitarian and protection pressure, including living with the\nconsequences of armed conflict and forced displacement. Families who had\nalready been forced from their homes were now facing the prospect of losing\nthem once again.\n\nUNHCR had a\nlong-standing presence in three communities and was already supporting the\ngovernment-led emergency response with teams on the ground in affected area, including\nCali and Buenaventura. They were working closely with the national and local\nauthorities, community organizations, and humanitarian partners. The Government\nof Colombia was leading the response, with UNHCR and other UN agencies\nsupporting through established coordination mechanism under the UN Resident\nCoordinator.\n\nThe most\nurgent needs included shelter, food, clean water, healthcare, and psychosocial\nsupport, particularly for families whose home had been damaged or destroyed.\nUNHCR had activated its emergency procedure and was preparing the distribution\nof critical relief items already available in its stockpiles in Colombia,\nincluding more than 18,000 hygiene kits, 3,100 solar lamps, and 30 refugee\nhousing units for temporary shelter.\n\nAnnouncements\n\nAlessandra Vellucci, on behalf of United\nNations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA), said the ninth session of\nthe Working Group on the Strengthening of the Biological Weapons Convention\n(BWC) would take place in the Assembly Hall from 17-21 August, under the\npresidency of Brazil. [Interested journalists can write to Daniel Feakes (daniel.feakes@un.org) for off-the-record briefings or contacts\nwith the Chair.]\n\nWhile the norm enshrined in the Convention was\nstrong, the Convention lacked an institution and a verification system. The Working\nGroup was expected to make recommendations to strengthen and institutionalize\nthe Convention in these aspects and develop institutional mechanisms. This was especially\nimportant in a context where the convergence of AI and biology was lowering the\ntechnical barriers to developing biological weapons, and where some terrorist\ngroups expressed interest in these weapons. The focus of the discussion next\nweek would be the comprehensive draft of the Working Group's final report. Negotiations\non this report were approaching a crunch point, the Group being due to adopt\nits final report by consensus at its tenth session, next December. If adopted, the\nreport would represent a significant strengthening of the 50-year-old\nconvention, enabling it to better guard against the misuse of biology and the\nrisk posed by the artificial intelligence.\n\nThe Committee on the Rights of Persons with\nDisabilities (CRPD) was reviewing today the report of Sri Lanka. Next week,\nit would review the reports of Lithuania (17-18 August), Chili (18-19 August),\nand Slovakia (20 August).\n\nThe Committee on the Elimination of Racial\nDiscrimination (CERD) would review the report of Finland next Monday, 17\nAugust, in the afternoon, and the next day in the morning.\n\nA ceremony would be held on 19 August, at 4 p.m. in the Salle des\nPas-Perdus of the Palais des Nations, to celebrate World Humanitarian Day. A testimony would be heard from a survivor of the 2003 terrorist attack\nagainst the UN Mission in Baghdad.\n\nFinally, answering a question, Ms. Vellucci reminded that the election of\nthe new UN Secretary-General was a matter carried out in New York by Member States,\nthat would choose the successor to António Guterres, who had been fulfilling his\nfunctions as Secretary-General for ten years, ending in 2026. Full information on\nthis process was available on this General Assembly webpage.","categories":["Media","Press Conferences"],"geographic_subject":[],"subject_topical":[],"corporate_name":["WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION - WHO","UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND - UNFPA","WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME - WFP","UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES - UNHCR"],"speaker_affiliation":[],"related_documents":[]},"transcript":{"transcript_id":"scheduled-a6113547-c519-4450-a139-cca076d64ed8","language":"en","data":[{"statement_number":1,"start":1.15,"pageUrl":"/en/briefing/geneva/2026-08-14?t=2","paragraphs":[{"sentences":[{"text":"Good morning.","start":1.15,"end":1.71,"topics":[],"words":[{"text":"Good","start":1.15,"end":1.35},{"text":"morning.","start":1.35,"end":1.71}]},{"text":"Welcome to the press briefing of the UN Information Service here in 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