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Eastern DRC: UN food aid hangs in the balance amid severe funding crunch

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Eastern DRC: UN food aid hangs in the balance amid severe funding crunch

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is grappling with a dire humanitarian crisis fuelled by ongoing political instability and armed conflicts, severely impacting the entire food supply, the UN…

8 September 2023 · 1 min read

Rights experts call for second UN Decade for People of African Descent

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Rights experts call for second UN Decade for People of African Descent

They stressed that more than ever, the world urgently needs humanity to unite and collaborate in a spirit of equality and non-discrimination. “This demands political will to eliminate all forms of…

8 September 2023 · 4 min read

Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh need urgent support as crises multiply: UNHCR

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Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh need urgent support as crises multiply: UNHCR

The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, is calling on the international community to renew its commitment to the nearly one million Rohingya refugees who have fled persecution in Myanmar for neighbouring…

8 September 2023 · 1 min read

Guterres calls for end to ‘atrocious crime’ of enforced disappearances

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Guterres calls for end to ‘atrocious crime’ of enforced disappearances

Enforced disappearance has regularly been used as a tool for instilling fear and exert control over a population. The feeling of insecurity it generates is not limited to close relatives…

8 September 2023 · 3 min read

Top UN aid official in Ukraine deplores latest wave of ‘massive Russian attacks’

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Top UN aid official in Ukraine deplores latest wave of ‘massive Russian attacks’

Russian strikes on at least 10 regions in Ukraine have left a path of death and destruction over the past 24 hours, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in the country said…

8 September 2023 · 1 min read

Syrians suffer as political stalemate persists: UN Special Envoy

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Syrians suffer as political stalemate persists: UN Special Envoy

The only path out of the war in Syria is a political process, which would also help to address the many crises affecting the country, UN Special Envoy Geir Pedersen…

8 September 2023 · 1 min read

Mexico: Rights experts ‘outraged’ over attacks on women activists

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Mexico: Rights experts ‘outraged’ over attacks on women activists

“We are outraged that those searching for forcibly disappeared family members and loved ones continue to be targeted and face violence in Mexico,” they said in a statement, issued in the wake of…

8 September 2023 · 3 min read

More than two million children displaced by Sudan war: UNICEF

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More than two million children displaced by Sudan war: UNICEF

The conflict in Sudan has uprooted more than two million children – an average of more than 700 newly displaced every hour, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported on Thursday. …

7 September 2023 · 1 min read

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Refusal to waive IP rights for COVID-19 vaccines violates human rights: Experts

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) adopted a decision under its “early warning and urgent action” procedures, stating that developed countries’ “persistent refusal” to waive COVID-19…

7 September 2023 · 3 min read

Sudan: ‘lost generation’ of children amid war, hunger, disease: UN humanitarians

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Sudan: ‘lost generation’ of children amid war, hunger, disease: UN humanitarians

UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said on Friday that the spread of fighting and hunger in Sudan could destroy the country, as the future of a “lost generation” of children…

7 September 2023 · 1 min read