Deputy UN chief demands action to protect vulnerable migrants
“Migration is not just a statistic; it is the lived experience of women, men and children, each with unique identities and vulnerabilities – pursuing...
Absent faces, destroyed homes – young students paint the pain of Gaza
Their paintings and drawings range from a portrait of an esteemed Palestinian poet and family members killed in conflict, to a sky blackened by...
SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: Haiti ‘shamefully overlooked’, warns Guterres
Haitians are enduring a “perfect storm of suffering” the UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council on Thursday as gang violence continues to paralyse daily...
Desperate need for water and food continues as Gaza families head north
Many families are returning to shattered neighbourhoods where unstable buildings and unexploded ordnance pose deadly risks.“Water, food and essential services are still desperately needed,”...
Yemen: Nearly half the population facing acute food insecurity in some southern areas
Yemen remains trapped in a prolonged political, humanitarian and development crisis, after enduring years of conflict between government forces and Houthi rebels, with populations...
Weekend attacks in Ukraine bring more casualties, damage infrastructure
Between Friday and early morning Monday, Ukrainian authorities said that over a dozen civilians were killed and more than 70 others injured, including two children. Basic service disruptions...
‘Only hunger and bombs’ for besieged civilians in Sudan’s El Fasher
At least 57 civilians were killed in the attack, which included the Abu Shouk displacement camp on the outskirts of the city, and UN...
Gaza: UNICEF mourns seven children killed queuing for water
The incident occurred in central Gaza on Sunday, according to media reports, which said that four other people also lost their lives due to...
Political crisis and corruption fuelling violence in South Sudan, UN rights body says
The Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan issued the warning at the conclusion of a mission to the Africa Union (AU) headquarters in...
Ukraine: Latest Russian assault leaves at least 14 dead in Kyiv
The missile and drone attacks, which heavily damaged apartment buildings and other civilian infrastructure, came just four days after another Russian attack that killed...
Sudan: Top UN aid official warns of ‘abandoned crisis’ as war enters fourth year
Denise Brown, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, said the crisis is following a grim pattern of repeated abuses and repeated suffering.“We are on repeat...
UN rights chief adds voice to urgent calls for Middle East de-escalation
The development came as UN Secretary-General António Guterres condemned “escalation after escalation” in the Middle East on Tuesday and as UN High Commissioner for...
Ukraine: Continued Russian assaults drive civilians from frontline communities
“Attacks on frontline regions (are) increasing and it's always civilians that are bearing the highest cost of the war,” said UNHCR Representative Karolina Lindholm Billing.Since January,...
World News in Brief: Migrants Day, hunger in the Arab world, arbitrary arrests in...
Tragically, the year also saw the highest death toll of migrants in transit.
“These challenges are made worse by the rising tide of mis- and...
UNHCR launches $10 billion appeal to address global refugee crisis in 2025
Announced earlier this week, the agency’s Global Appeal comes amid escalating humanitarian crises, as conflict, persecution and the growing impacts of climate change continue...
Ukrainians continue flee the frontline, as war stretches into fourth year
“In the last six months alone, more than 200,000 people have been evacuated from frontline areas in the east and north,” said Filippo Grandi,...
World News in Brief: Sudan famine latest, weekend attacks in Ukraine, Tanzania Marburg virus...
In an alert on Monday, the World Food Programme (WFP) said that the trucks will be the first from the UN agency to reach...
‘An unending horror story’: Gangs and human rights abuses expand in Haiti
Left vulnerable, communities then formed self-defence groups and Haitian security forces reinforced their operations and made small gains only to be rebuffed again by...
Gazans’ suffering goes on amid intensifying Israeli strikes
In occupied East Jerusalem, meanwhile, Israeli protesters illegally entered a compound of the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA.The development comes after the Israeli...
Lebanon: WHO appeals for more support for civilians as crises intensify
Dr. Abdinasir Abubakar outlined how the UN agency has been supporting Lebanon’s Ministry of Health, including following the wave of electronic device explosions this...
DR Congo: Displaced people in South Kivu close to ‘utter desperation’, WFP says
That’s according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP), which announced on Tuesday that it is scaling up to deliver aid to more than 210,000 people displaced by the violence after a new...
Humanitarian funding cuts pushing millions into hunger: WFP
Programmes in Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Haiti, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan are already facing major disruptions, which will only...
He can assist scientists who haven’t understood the universe-origin properly
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Most people in the whole world are interested in understanding the origin of the universe, but most of them don’t know...
