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What the UN is doing in DR Congo

Despite security challenges, UN agencies and peacekeepers have pledged to stay and deliver amid rising deaths and injuries alongside an alarming spread of highly contagious mpox and other endemic diseases as the...

8 February 2025 · 6 min read

Sudan: Civilian death toll triples in one week amid escalating hostilities
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Human Rights

Sudan: Civilian death toll triples in one week amid escalating hostilities

This figure represents a threefold increase from the previous week, when at least 89 civilians lost their lives amid the ongoing hostilities.The crisis is compounded by intensifying violence in South...

8 February 2025 · 2 min read

International Criminal Court condemns US sanctions move
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Human Rights

International Criminal Court condemns US sanctions move

The court was established by the Rome Statute, negotiated within the UN – but it is a fully independent court set up to try the gravest crimes, including crimes against...

8 February 2025 · 2 min read

DR Congo: Rights chief warns crisis could worsen, without international action
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Human Rights

DR Congo: Rights chief warns crisis could worsen, without international action

Since 26 January, nearly 3,000 people have been killed and 2,880 injured in attacks by the M23 and their allies “with heavy weapons used in populated areas, and intense fighting...

7 February 2025 · 4 min read

‘She had a syringe, razor blade, and bandages’: Surviving genital mutilation
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Human Rights

‘She had a syringe, razor blade, and bandages’: Surviving genital mutilation

Zeinaba Mahr Aouad, a 24-year-old woman from Djibouti, remembers the day when, as a ten-year-old, an unexpected visitor came to her house: “She had a syringe, a razor blade and...

7 February 2025 · 4 min read