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“Our humanitarian colleagues tell us that their partners are continuing their intensifying efforts, despite reported Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip,” he said, noting that some strikes have hit areas...
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Since the powerful paramilitary group made a major incursion into the city last week, the UN human rights office has received "Horrific accounts of summary executions, massacres, rapes, attacks on...
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More than 60 people have been killed in the series of attacks which have continued since the beginning of September "in circumstances which find no justification in international law“, Volker...
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Torrential rains, storm surges and landslides caused by the hurricane left a trail of destruction across the region, with homes razed, roads and bridges washed away, and large areas still...
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The heavy humanitarian and psychological toll of these strikes is compounded by the fact that this year's winter is expected to be much colder than last year's - with the...
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Yet, in the face of this rapid transformation, one question arises above all: how can innovation truly serve people, as more and more of them migrate to cities? This question...
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Richard Bennett, the Special Rapporteur for monitoring human rights in Afghanistan – who serves independently under a mandate from the Human Rights Council and is not a UN staff member...
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The hurricane caused significant damage to homes, infrastructure and crops, displacing thousands of people. However, intensive storm preparation by governments, with help from UN agencies and other NGOs, appears to...
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This is the third large-scale combined strike in October against energy facilities in civilian areas, leading to significant power outages. At least two other civilians were killed – and 23...
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Following the signing of the peace agreement in Colombia in 2016, more than 13,000 former FARC fighters laid down their arms in one year, returning nearly 9,000 weapons, 38,000 tons...
