Lebanon crisis: ‘This is just the beginning’ say those impacted by deadly escalation
“We are witnessing the deadliest period in Lebanon in a generation and many expressed their fear that this is just the beginning,” said Imran...
Lebanon escalation: Have we learned nothing from Gaza, UN humanitarians ask
Speaking from Beirut in the aftermath of Lebanon’s “worst day in 18 years”, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) deputy representative in the country, Ettie...
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...
Myanmar: UN WFP pushes to reach flood-affected communities
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said that initial reports indicated that hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland have been inundated. In the...
Security Council: A sustainable future for Syria depends on ending the war
Displacement remains staggeringly high, with over six million Syrians languishing as refugees or asylum-seekers outside the country’s borders and more than seven million displaced...
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....
Floods, landslides wreak havoc across South Asia
The worst affected regions are Chattogram and Sylhet, where major rivers are “flowing well above danger levels”, further aggravating the situation, according to the...
West Bank crisis: UN chief calls for immediate halt to Israeli strikes
Mr. Guterres’s intervention late Wednesday comes amid one of the biggest Israeli Security Forces (ISF) operations in the West Bank in years – the...
Nepal: New transitional justice law aids wider search for truth
“Eighteen years since the end of the decade-long conflict, and after several previous attempts to finalise such legislation, victims of human rights violations are...
Kyiv hospital struggles to care for patients amid air strikes
“When the alarm went off, we were all rushed into the shelter,” she said. “Even the tiniest babies from the neonatal intensive care unit...
Rights experts urge United Kingdom to curb hate speech
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racism (CERD) voiced concern over persistent hate crimes, hate speech and xenophobic incidents on various platforms, including...
UN provides emergency cash injection for global crisis hotspots
More than a third of the funds will support aid efforts in Yemen ($20 million) and Ethiopia ($15 million), where desperate civilians are grappling...
China: UN rights office reiterates need to review national security framework
The 31 August 2022 report stated that violations had taken place in the context of the Government’s assertion that it was targeting terrorists among...
‘Giving help and giving hope’, an aerial lifeline to the world’s most isolated
The WFP’s Executive Director Cindy McCain said the UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS), which is managed by the UN’s food agency, enabled humanitarians to...
World News in Brief: Terror attacks in Pakistan and Burkina Faso, Yemen floods update,...
Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin, an Al-Qaeda-affiliated group, claimed responsibility for the attack in Burkina Faso on August 24. The attacks in Pakistan, which took...
Thousands more children protected on day 2 of Gaza polio campaign
“There were 87,000 vaccinated on the first day out of 156,000 that we are hoping to reach in the Middle Area,” said Louise Wateridge,...
New UN report details Nicaragua’s ongoing human rights crisis
Human rights violations in Nicaragua have been ongoing since 2018 when university students and other civil society activists began protesting a new Social Security...
Humanitarians support civilians affected by recent attacks in Ukraine
“Our colleagues in Ukraine just told us that new attacks today struck Poltava in the centre of the country. Initial reports indicate a number...
Venezuela: UN rights office describes pervasive ‘climate of fear’
“It is a climate of fear in the country at the moment. We are urging the government to ensure that all steps are taken...
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...
UN rights chief calls for global ‘zero tolerance’ against antisemitism
This comes just a day after the UN human rights office (OHCHR) issued a statement expressing horror over the reported summary execution of six Israeli...
Catastrophic hunger doubles in 2024; Gaza and Sudan worst hit
The updated Global Report on Food Crises reveals that nearly two million people are now grappling with the most critical level of food insecurity,...
Reconnect with our common humanity and reject ‘treacherous new normal’
Addressing the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Volker Türk underscored that international human rights and humanitarian law “are our mainstay against unbridled power.”Speaking...
Private donations boost UN support for war-torn Gaza
Since last October, the UN agency has raised nearly $150 million from UNRWA Spain, UNRWA USA, foundations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), corporations and individuals. Some even...
