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‘Shocking, unsustainable and desperate’ conditions across Gaza, Security...
The Security Council met on Thursday at UN Headquarters in New York on the situation in the Gaza Strip, wracked by months of unrelenting war and tensions spilling into the wider Middle East region,...
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Ukraine: Türk deplores horrific human cost as Russia’s full-scale invasion...
GENEVA (22 February 2024) – The full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation has exacted a horrific human cost, inflicting immense suffering on millions of civilians, UN Human Rights Chief...
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‘Carnage’ in Gaza must end, UN rights chief tells Human Rights Council
The “carnage” in Gaza has left more than 30,000 dead and must end immediately, UN rights chief Volker Türk told the Human Rights Council on Thursday, after almost five months of constant Israeli...
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North Gaza aid mission reveals more infants may die from hunger
March 5, 2024 – A rare opportunity to deliver desperately needed supplies to hospitals in northern Gaza for the first time in months has been welcomed by UN humanitarians who on Tuesday issued a fresh...
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UN experts urge the international community to step up pressure to end...
GENEVA (7 March 2024) – UN human rights experts* today urged the international community to increase pressure on the parties to the conflict to end grave crimes and fully comply with international...
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Gaza: Number of children killed higher than from four years of world conflict
Amid reports of fresh Israeli airstrikes in Gaza overnight into Wednesday, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said that more children have been killed there in recent months than in four...
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‘The patriarchy may be pushing back, but so are we’, UN chief tells CSW68
Women’s rights are under attack, and governments must act to reverse that dangerous trend, the UN chief told a his annual town hall event with civil society activists on Wednesday, as the Commission...
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1 in 3 children under 2 years of age in the Northern Gaza Strip suffer from...
NEW YORK, MARCH 15, 2024 –31 per cent – or 1 in 3 children under 2 years of age – in the Northern Gaza Strip suffer from acute malnutrition, a staggering escalation from 15.6 per cent in January....
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Explainer: What is famine?
Amid growing global concerns over alarming hunger spikes in conflict-affected communities and talk of intensifying levels of food insecurity possibly leading to famine, we looked into how – and when –...
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UN report details ‘climate of fear’ in occupied areas of Ukraine, as the...
GENEVA (20 March 2024) – The Russian Federation has created a stifling climate of fear in occupied areas of Ukraine, committing widespread violations of international humanitarian and human rights law...
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Gaza: Halt the war now to save children from dying of imminent famine, UN...
GENEVA (21 March 2024) – With children in North Gaza facing imminent famine and others across the Gaza Strip in danger of catastrophic food insecurity, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child...
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Gaza: Security Council passes resolution demanding ‘an immediate ceasefire’...
The UN Security Council on Monday passed a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire for the month of Ramadan, the immediate and unconditional release of hostages and “the urgent need to expand the...
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Gaza: ‘Double-digit’ number of children reported killed overnight
Intense hostilities in Gaza continued on Tuesday between Hamas fighters and Israeli forces with a “double-digit number of children killed overnight” and ongoing aid delivery obstacles that are...
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One in Three Migrant Deaths Occurs En route While Fleeing Conflict: IOM Report
Geneva/Berlin, March 26, 2024 – As the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) Missing Migrants Project marks its ten-year milestone, a new report reveals alarming trends in migrant deaths...
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Gaza: Israeli strike on NGO aid team condemned as humanitarians renew access...
The killing of seven aid workers from the NGO World Central Kitchen in Israeli military airstrikes in central Gaza has been strongly condemned by senior UN humanitarian officials who on Tuesday...
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Attacks on Ukrainian nuclear facilities ‘must cease immediately’: UN atomic...
The head of the UN nuclear watchdog agency reiterated that attacks against nuclear power plants in Ukraine are “an absolute no go”, following direct military action targeting the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear...
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Palestinian request for UN membership in spotlight amid fears for Rafah invasion
The Security Council prepared to convene on Monday to consider a Palestinian request for United Nations membership as humanitarians expressed deep concerns about Israel’s planned invasion of Rafah and...
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Israel and Iran must de-escalate conflict to protect human rights, warn UN...
GENEVA (16 April 2024) – Retaliatory military attacks between Israel and Iran violate the right to life and must cease immediately, UN experts said today. Allegedly to counter foreign state support...
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Geopolitical situation makes voting in European elections even more important
April 17, 2024 – Today’s pre-electoral publication reveals a positive, upward trend on key election indicators with just a few weeks to go until EU citizens cast their ballots 6-9 June. Interest in...
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UN experts deeply concerned over ‘scholasticide’ in Gaza
GENEVA (April 18, 2024) – UN experts* today expressed grave concern over the pattern of attacks on schools, universities, teachers, and students in the Gaza Strip, raising serious alarm over the...
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