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Syria: Prioritise search for the missing, justice for victims

Syria: Prioritise search for the missing, justice for victims

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Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen is engaging with all parties who have a stake in the political future of the country “on the way...
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Syria: Rights investigators call for protection of evidence, including mass grave...

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A team from the Independent International Commission of Inquiry (CoI) on Syria visited former prisons and detention centres, including the notorious Sednaya and...
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Rights experts call for immediate end to post-election violence in Mozambique

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Weeks of violent protests have marked the outcome of the disputed 9 October presidential elections, which saw ruling party Frelimo candidate Daniel Chapo...
Middle East: Gaza food markets ‘in decay’ as starvation looms

Middle East: Gaza food markets ‘in decay’ as starvation looms

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In an alert, the World Food Programme (WFP) described markets “in decay” across the enclave. “Fresh foods, eggs, and meat barely exist and the...
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Public execution in Afghanistan condemned as ‘clear human rights violation’

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The latest incident comes amid growing international concern over the use of capital punishment in the country since 2021, when the Taliban swept...
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Sudan’s displaced have endured ‘unimaginable suffering, brutal atrocities’

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Nineteen months since conflict erupted between rival militaries the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) over the transfer of power...
More action on the ground needed to save civilian lives in Gaza, top UN official tells Security Council

More action on the ground needed to save civilian lives in...

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Sigrid Kaag updated ambassadors on the implementation of resolution 2720, adopted last December, which established her mandate following the brutal 7 October Hamas-led attacks...
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85 per cent of journalist killings go unpunished

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The dangers faced by journalists, including risks to their lives, are highlighted each year on the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against...
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World News in Brief: Hunger grows in Haiti, Gaza aid blocked, World Potato Day

The World Food Programme (WFP) distributed more than 74,000 hot meals to over 15,000 displaced people in the besieged capital, Port-au-Prince, Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson...

UN chief condemns escalating violence and civilian attacks in Myanmar

UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said the Secretary-General “strongly condemns” recent attacks by the Myanmar military in Rakhine State and Sagaing Region that have...

Sudan: as millions face famine, humanitarians plead for aid access

In a bleak assessment of the dire situation in Sudan where conflict is in its second year, the heads of 19 global humanitarian organizations...

War must never be normalized for child victims: Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine

In remarks to commemorate the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression, Denise Brown also noted that boys and girls in frontline...

Gaza: Children are starving amid persistent aid access obstacles, warn UN agencies

The alert from the World Health Organization (WHO) follows the finding that more than four in five children “did not eat for a whole...

More than 500 Palestinians killed in occupied West Bank: UN rights chief

Two of the latest fatalities were 16-year-old Ahmed Ashraf Hamidat and 17-year-old Mohammed Musa Al Bitar, both shot “at a distance of about...

Top UN relief official in Ukraine deplores deadly strikes in Kharkiv

The attacks occurred in the city’s Novobovarskyi district late on Thursday. At least three people were killed and a further 16 injured, according to...

UN humanitarian flight takes vital medical supplies to Haiti

The international airport had been closed due to rampant gang violence in the country.The flight carried nearly 15 metric tonnes of medicine and medical...

Situation in southern Gaza ‘horrific and apocalpytic’: WFP

Matthew Hollingsworth, WFP Country Director in Palestine, warned that with limited access to the south “we will no doubt see what we saw happen...

UN human rights chief sounds alarm over rising violence in Burkina Faso

Allegations of responsibility point to both armed groups and State actors.“While armed groups are presumed responsible for the vast majority of incidents and...
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