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24 million Sudanese children facing ‘generational catastrophe’

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home 24 million Sudanese children facing ‘generational catastrophe’ 18 March 2024 © UNICEF/Ahmed Elfatih Mohamdee Children displaced by the fighting and insecurity in Sudan, sheltering in Sennar in the Blue Nile state. As the war in Sudan enters its second year next month, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) on Monday warned of a staggering toll of the crisis on children, with an…

UN relief chief calls for overhaul in humanitarian assistance delivery

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home UN relief chief calls for overhaul in humanitarian assistance delivery 18 March 2024 © UNOCHA/Iramaku Vundru Wilfred Over 25 million people require humanitarian assistance in Sudan. The UN’s emergency relief chief on Monday outlined the need for a fundamental shift in how humanitarian assistance is delivered, advocating for greater understanding of the needs of crisis-affected populations…

Iran: Repression continues two years after nationwide protests

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home Iran: Repression continues two years after nationwide protests 18 March 2024 UN Human Rights Council Photo/Henri Van der Veken Sara Hossain, Chair of the International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran, presenting a report to the Human Rights Council Iranian security forces shot hundreds of people who took part in widespread protests sparked by the death of Jina Mahsa Amini while she was in the…

Imminent famine in northern Gaza is ‘entirely man-made disaster’: Guterres

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home Imminent famine in northern Gaza is ‘entirely man-made disaster’: Guterres 18 March 2024 © UNICEF/Abed Zagout A mother prepares a meal for her children outside their makeshift home in a refugee camp in Khan Younis, Gaza. (file) Amid reports that the Israeli military stormed Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Monday in search of Hamas fighters, UN humanitarians warned that new food…

UN chief condemns attack on peacekeepers in DR Congo

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home UN chief condemns attack on peacekeepers in DR Congo 17 March 2024 MONUSCO/Kevin N. Jordan MONUSCO peacekeepers on a trip to North Kivu province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. (file) The UN chief on Saturday condemned an attack which saw eight peacekeepers from the UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or DRC, wounded during clashes between the powerful M23…

First Person: Southern Madagascar, where girls are sold into marriage before they are born

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home First Person: Southern Madagascar, where girls are sold into marriage before they are born 16 March 2024 UN News/Daniel Dickinson Nodely Lehilaly regularly attends positive masculinity group sessions in his village in southern Madagascar. Efforts are being made in the south of Madagascar to end a traditional but illegal practice in which girls are promised as a wife to older men, sometimes…

UN calls for united action to combat rising Islamophobia

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home UN calls for united action to combat rising Islamophobia 15 March 2024 © UNICEF/Ahmed Elfatih Mohamdeen Displaced girls play at a UNICEF-supported learning space in Al Salam, Sudan. Amid a rising tide of anti-Muslim hate, top UN officials condemned the scourge on Friday as the General Assembly adopted a resolution to push back against it during commemorations marking the International…

World News in Brief: Rights chief appalled at Nigeria mass abductions, ‘pervasive’ hunger in streets of Sudan, Syria child crisis

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: Rights chief appalled at Nigeria mass abductions, ‘pervasive’ hunger in streets of Sudan, Syria child crisis 15 March 2024 © UNICEF Niger/Islamane Abdou Aid is distributed to displaced families who fled violence in Nigeria and have settled in Niger. (file) UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Friday expressed outrage at the recent abductions by gunmen of…

I lost hope and will to live, in Russian jail, says Ukraine POW

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home I lost hope and will to live, in Russian jail, says Ukraine POW 15 March 2024 © EU/Oleksandr Rakushnyak With severe damage to housing, water and electricity supply, heating and public infrastructure such as schools and health facilities, the impact of the ongoing war in Ukraine on civilians is staggering. Fresh evidence of “horrific…widespread and systematic” abuse and…

Gaza: 23 million tonnes of debris ‘will take years to clear’; acute malnutrition doubles in a month

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza: 23 million tonnes of debris ‘will take years to clear’; acute malnutrition doubles in a month 15 March 2024 © UNICEF/Eyad El Baba Children stand in front of a house demolished by a bombardment in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip... The war in Gaza has left a staggering almost 23 millions tonnes of rubble and unexploded weapons scattered across the enclave, UN humanitarians…