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Braving mines and missiles to bring aid to Ukraine’s displaced population
Source of Revival NGO - Critical infrastructure and residential area heavily damaged in the northeast region of Ukraine following 2022 Russian invasion.

Europe

Braving mines and missiles to bring aid to Ukraine’s displaced population

Almost a third of those displaced by the conflict come from the region around the country’s second largest city of Kharkiv, in the east. To bring aid to Ukraine’s displaced…

26 August 2022 · 5 min read

Ukraine prisoner of war trials in Mariupol could be a war crime: OHCHR
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Europe

Ukraine prisoner of war trials in Mariupol could be a war crime: OHCHR

The United Nations Human Rights Office (UNHRO) has expressed concern about the construction of metal cages, apparently to house prisoners of war (POWs) in an upcoming "show trial.  

24 August 2022 · 4 min read

A light in the darkness for Ukrainians under fire
Ukrainian Prism NGO - Hospitals are receiving solar lamps from IOM in Chernihiv Region.

Europe

A light in the darkness for Ukrainians under fire

The Russian invasion of Ukraine shows no sign of letting up, but the UN continues to bring humanitarian supplies to the country, including solar lamps, which bring some respite from…

22 August 2022 · 4 min read

Saudi Arabia: UN calls for release of woman sentenced to 34 years in prison for tweeting
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Human Rights

Saudi Arabia: UN calls for release of woman sentenced to 34 years in prison for tweeting

The UN human rights office, OHCHR, expressed outrage on Friday over a 34 years in prison sentence handed down to a Saudi woman charged with following and retweeting so-called dissidents…

20 August 2022 · 2 min read

Grain deal ‘victory for diplomacy,’ UN chief tells journalists in Ukraine
UN Photo/Mark Garten - Secretary-General António Guterres (right), Presidents Volodymyr Zelinskyy (center) of Ukraine and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Türkiye, brief the journalists at a press conference in Lviv, Ukraine.

Europe

Grain deal ‘victory for diplomacy,’ UN chief tells journalists in Ukraine

Despite that the Black Sea Grain Initiative was signed a few weeks ago, the UN chief reiterated that “there is no solution to the global food crisis without ensuring full global access…

19 August 2022 · 5 min read

“I've been waiting 16 years for this moment”: Helping to transform the lives of victims of terrorism in Iraq 
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News

“I’ve been waiting 16 years for this moment”: Helping to transform the lives of victims of terrorism in Iraq 

Helping to transform the lives of victims of terrorism in Iraq at a three-day psychosocial workshop implemented by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) with the Lebanese…

19 August 2022 · 3 min read

After the storm: what an environmental tragedy can teach us about climate resilience and ecosystem restoration
UN News/Laura Quiñones - McBean Lagoon National Natural Park is located in Providencia, an eight-square-mile Colombian island off that country's northern coast.

Environment

After the storm: what an environmental tragedy can teach us about climate resilience and ecosystem restoration

A tiny Caribbean Island known as 'the flower of the ocean' was decimated by Hurricane Iota in 2020. Two years after the storm, they’re still working to restore their environmental…

17 August 2022 · 29 min read

Vessel to collect first humanitarian wheat shipment under Ukraine grain deal
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Europe

Vessel to collect first humanitarian wheat shipment under Ukraine grain deal

This will be the first shipment of humanitarian food assistance under the Black Sea Grain Initiative signed last month by Ukraine, Russia and Türkiye. 

13 August 2022 · 3 min read

‘Very alarming’ conditions at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant,  IAEA chief warns
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International

‘Very alarming’ conditions at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant,  IAEA chief warns

The situation at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has deteriorated rapidly to the point of becoming “very alarming,” Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Mariano Grossi…

12 August 2022 · 3 min read