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Sudan latest: Over 100,000 have now fled says UNHCR
Those fleeing the fighting include Sudanese refugees as well as people who were themselves refugees in Sudan. UNHCR estimates that the number of refugees and returnees may rise to over…
Human Rights
Fragile gains on reducing child marriage, under threat from ‘polycrisis’: UNICEF
Currently, one in five young women aged 20 to 24, were married as children, versus nearly one in four a decade ago, according to the new analysis, entitled, Is an…
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Afghanistan: Guterres says women worker ban ‘unacceptable and puts lives in jeopardy’
Secretary-General António Guterres was speaking to reporters in Doha, Qatar, after convening an international meeting of Special Envoys on Afghanistan. He said they had agreed on the need for a “strategy of…
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WFP resumes operations in Sudan, amid full-blown humanitarian ‘catastrophe’
WFP had paused its life-saving activities after three staff were killed in North Darfur on 15 April, the first day of clashes between the Sudanese army and the rival Rapid…
Human Rights
Guterres convenes meeting in Doha to discuss key issues in Afghanistan
The aim is to reinvigorate international engagement around key issues, such as human rights, in particular women’s and girls’ rights, inclusive governance, countering terrorism and drug trafficking. “The meeting is…
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Guterres dispatches UN ‘relief chief’ to Sudan as humanitarian crisis nears ‘breaking point’
“The scale and speed of what is unfolding is unprecedented in Sudan. We are extremely concerned by the immediate as well as long-term impact on all people in Sudan, and the…
Human Rights
INTERVIEW – Seeking justice for sexual abuse victims
Critics have said justice takes too long, and perpetrators are not always held accountable in cases of sexual abuse and exploitation committed by UN personnel.
Human Rights
Stop deporting Haitians: Rights experts’ appeal to countries in Americas
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) sounded the alarm after 36,000 people of Haitian origin were deported during the first three months of the year, according…
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UN condemns ‘inexcusable’ deadly airstrikes in Ukraine
Dozens of civilians across the country were killed and injured, and homes and other vital infrastructure, destroyed. More than 20 people were killed in the small central city of Uman…
Human Rights
UN expert urges Japan to ‘step up pressure’ on Myanmar junta
“The international community’s response to the crisis in Myanmar is failing, and that failure has contributed to a lethal downward spiral that is devastating the lives of millions of people,”…