World News in Brief: Gaza aid crisis worsens, South Sudan clashes, Ecuador oil spill...
“It has now been a month and a half since any supplies were last allowed through the crossings into Gaza,” UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric...
One in four countries report backlash against women’s rights in 2024
UN Women’s latest report Women's Rights in Review 30 Years After Beijing, published ahead of the UN 50th International Women’s Day on 8 March, shows...
UN stands with Ukrainians for the long-term, insists UN aid chief
In a joint appeal from Kyiv, the UN’s emergency relief chief Tom Fletcher and Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said that millions of civilians...
External flow of weapons into Sudan must end, insists UN’s Guterres
And amid spiralling violence and the massacre of civilians linked to advancing opposition forces in the Darfurs at the weekend, the UN chief called...
Russian strikes on Ukraine’s energy system risks nuclear disaster: rights experts
Their warning comes amid growing international concern about the vulnerability of Ukraine’s nuclear facilities which rely on a stable power grid to maintain critical...
Ukraine reels from one of the deadliest days of war
“With 21 civilians reported killed, 7 March was one of the deadliest days for civilians in Ukraine so far this year,” UN mission chief...
Sudan war: Displacement figures fall for first time
However, the country remains in the grip of one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, with millions facing famine, disease and insecurity.IOM data shows...
Chagos Islands: UK’s last African colony returned to Mauritius
The agreement follows 13 rounds of talks that began in 2022 after Mauritian calls for sovereignty were recognised by the International Court of Justice...
Only 3 per cent of UN emergency food aid getting to desperate Gazans
At the end of December, a joint UN convoy of nine trucks successfully reached people in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza, who had been cut...
Deadly Atlantic shipwreck shows victims’ desperation, says UN refugee agency
The UN agency’s comments follow reports on Monday that dozens of people are missing after a boat carrying hundreds of people capsized in the...
Rights experts call for immediate end to post-election violence in Mozambique
Weeks of violent protests have marked the outcome of the disputed 9 October presidential elections, which saw ruling party Frelimo candidate Daniel Chapo emerge...
From suits to social justice: World’s top human rights forum turns stage over
Trading suits, ties and debates for DJ turntables, bright traditional Indigenous garb and ancient instruments, three performers – an anthropologist, an R&B singer and...
Reconstruction and vital repairs underway in Syria, as ‘security conditions’ permit
UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told reporters at the daily briefing on Thursday that bakeries in Aleppo are at near full capacity – “but partners report that...
Children face unprecedented challenges by 2050, UNICEF report warns
‘The State of the World’s Children 2024: The Future of Childhood in a Changing World’, explores three megatrends young people face including climate disasters,...
Sudan war: ‘Horror’ grows as reports of summary executions emerge
The warning on Thursday comes as the SAF launched a major offensive last month to regain control of key areas currently held by the...
UN rights chief urges accountability for post-electoral violence in Venezuela
Hundreds more were reportedly injured in clashes following the disputed elections and around 2,000 arrested, including teenagers, young adults, opposition members, human rights defenders,...
Flooding displaces thousands amid ongoing unrest in eastern DR Congo
The Rugumba River burst its banks, inundating large areas of Kalemie and Nyunzu territories, destroying homes, schools and agricultural land. Thousands have been left without...
World News in Brief: Aid trucks on Ukraine frontline, Africa schools close due to...
There are still nearly 2,000 people living in the town of Beryslav, including more than 70 children and 90 people who have only limited...
World News in Brief: Haiti latest, plastic tide in Samoa, Bakery boost in Ukraine,...
More than 700,000 people are displaced in the country – over half of whom are children – with recent violence in the capital Port-au-Prince...
France: Hijab ban during sports, ‘discriminatory and must be reversed’ say experts
The UN Human Rights Council-appointed experts criticised the decision by the French football and basketball federations to exclude players wearing the hijab from competitions, including...
Gaza: First polio case confirmed in war-shattered enclave
Head of the UN World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed deep concern at the development and said that the infant, from Deir...
Security Council debates Gaza as WHO announces polio pauses for lifesaving vaccination campaign
The UN Security Council met in emergency session in New York on the continuing crisis in Gaza and the occupied West Bank on Thursday....
Experts demand answers from Russia over award-winning Ukrainian journalist’s death
That’s according to a group of independent UN human rights experts who said in a statement released on Wednesday they are urgently seeking confirmation...
UNRWA chief renews call for probe into attacks on humanitarians in Gaza
Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini made the appeal in a statement posted on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter.He noted that 15 months after the war...
