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Record hunger in Haiti amid rising needs

Record hunger in Haiti amid rising needs

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The UN agency is sounding the alarm following the release of the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report, which uses a scale...
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Rise in violence against civilians in South Sudan

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The finding comes in its latest brief on violence against civilians, which also reveals a similar rise in incidents of conflict-related sexual violence...
Myanmar: Military strikes persist amid earthquake response efforts

Myanmar: Military strikes persist amid earthquake response efforts

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“At a moment when the sole focus should be on ensuring humanitarian aid gets to disaster zones, the military is instead launching attacks,” spokesperson...
INTERVIEW: Don’t forget Sudan, UN humanitarian coordinator urges |

INTERVIEW: Don’t forget Sudan, UN humanitarian coordinator urges |

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“We appeal to the international community not to forget Sudan,” Clementine Nkweta-Salami, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for the country, said recently in an...
WHO warns of severe disruptions to health services amid funding cuts

WHO warns of severe disruptions to health services amid funding cuts

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Speaking on Thursday at a press conference in Geneva, Tedros said that in around 25 per cent of countries, some health facilities have had...
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Myanmar: Military strikes persist amid earthquake response efforts

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“At a moment when the sole focus should be on ensuring humanitarian aid gets to disaster zones, the military is instead launching attacks,”...
Sudan faces unprecedented hunger and displacement as war enters third year

Sudan faces unprecedented hunger and displacement as war enters third year

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As the war enters its third year, UN humanitarians warn that immediate action is essential.“This is a manmade crisis, driven by conflict – not...
Bombardment, deprivation and displacement continue in Gaza

Bombardment, deprivation and displacement continue in Gaza

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OCHA said dozens of people, including at least eight children, were killed in Gaza City on Wednesday after an Israeli strike hit a residential building....
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Ukraine flood disaster: needs grow as long-term impacts loom

Speaking to journalists from Bilozerka, a town on the Dnipro River about 20 kilometres west of Kherson and five kilometres from the frontline, Ms....

Peacekeepers to be repatriated following allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse

Following serious allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse, a unit of 60 Tanzanian peacekeepers based in the Central African Republic, is to be repatriated.

Sudan crisis still having devastating impact on civilians: UN rights office

“We are concerned by the continued devastating impact of the fighting in Sudan on civilians,” Spokesperson Jeremy Laurence told journalists in Geneva.  The Sudanese Armed...

Arrests and hate speech target Baha’i minority in Yemen

OHCHR said that on 25 May, security forces stormed a peaceful meeting of Baha’is in Sana’a. Seventeen people, including five women, were taken to...

Bangladesh must suspend plans to return Rohingya refugees to Myanmar: Rights expert

Tom Andrews, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, insisted that current conditions there were “anything but conducive” for...

Dam disaster: UN ‘committed to reaching all Ukrainians in need’, says top aid official

Denise Brown, Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, offered reassurance to Dmytro Kuleba that UN agencies and other humanitarian partners have been delivering water, food and cash to...

Draft NY state law a ‘golden opportunity’ to ensure fair debt relief

Olivier de Schutter, Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, and Attiya Waris, Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights, have welcomed...

Human rights for all, still ‘work in progress’ warns Türk

The UN human rights office, OHCHR, and its mandate has become a powerful vehicle for change, progress, dignity, and justice, yet “this is far...

Ukraine: Dam destruction ‘monumental humanitarian, economic and ecological catastrophe’: Guterres

Water from the reservoir of the Kakhovka dam is also used to cool the nearby Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant (ZNPP), Europe's largest, which has been...

Haiti: UN deeply saddened as latest earthquake kills three, in wake of floods

The 5.5 magnitude quake struck in the department of Grand’Anse, following torrential rains which have displaced more than 13,000 people. “We are deeply saddened by...
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