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How Haiti paid for its freedom – twice over

2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home How Haiti paid for its freedom – twice over 19 April 2025 UN Photo/Mark Garten Shackles used to bind slaves on display at the Transatlantic Slave Trade exhibition at UN Headquarters in New York. (file) Two centuries to the day after France imposed a crippling debt on Haiti in exchange for its independence, a UN forum has heard calls for the restitution of what has long been described as a “…

Myanmar: Thousands remain in crisis weeks after deadly earthquakes

2 weeks 1 day ago Breadcrumb Home Myanmar: Thousands remain in crisis weeks after deadly earthquakes 18 April 2025 © UNICEF A woman and her granddaughter with relief supplies in a village in Mandalay, one of the regions hardest hit by the disaster. Thousands of families in Myanmar remain without shelter, water or medical care three weeks after deadly earthquakes struck the country, as frequent aftershocks compound the…

Gaza: Alongside conflict, an information war is still happening, warns UNRWA chief

2 weeks 2 days ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza: Alongside conflict, an information war is still happening, warns UNRWA chief 17 April 2025 © UNRWA The UNRWA water well serves around 20,000 displaced people in Jabalia, Gaza. Amid reported Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip into Thursday that killed at least 23 people, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, issued an urgent call to “get international media into…

Rise in violence against civilians in South Sudan

2 weeks 2 days ago Breadcrumb Home Rise in violence against civilians in South Sudan 17 April 2025 © WFP/Eulalia Berlanga People in Rupchai, South Sudan collect food aid that was dropped by airplanes. The number of civilians in South Sudan harmed by conventional parties to the conflict and other armed groups increased by 51 per cent in 2024, the UN Mission in the country (UNMISS) said on Thursday.…

Universal Declaration of Human Rights among new entries to UNESCO Memory of the World Register

2 weeks 2 days ago Breadcrumb Home Universal Declaration of Human Rights among new entries to UNESCO Memory of the World Register 17 April 2025 UN Photo Eleanor Roosevelt of the United States holding a Universal Declaration of Human Rights poster in English in 1949. (file) The archives of British naturalist Charles Darwin, whose theory of evolution by natural selection revolutionized understanding of nature and humanity’s…

Record hunger in Haiti amid rising needs

2 weeks 2 days ago Breadcrumb Home Record hunger in Haiti amid rising needs 17 April 2025 © OHCHR/Marion Mondain Vendors surrounded by garbage sell goods in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Escalating armed violence, displacement, economic turmoil and disruptions to local food production are fueling hunger in Haiti and leaving millions at risk, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Thursday.…

Sudan: No respite for civilians amid unrelenting war and aid access barriers

2 weeks 2 days ago Breadcrumb Home Sudan: No respite for civilians amid unrelenting war and aid access barriers 17 April 2025 © UNFPA/Karel Prinsloo A girl carries water at the Farchana camp for Sudanese refugees in Chad. As Sudan’s civil war grinds on, millions of civilians remain trapped in a relentless cycle of displacement, hunger and violence, while relief efforts are stifled by insecurity and bureaucratic hurdles…

Libya’s fragile transition plagued by deepening economic and political divides

2 weeks 2 days ago Breadcrumb Home Libya’s fragile transition plagued by deepening economic and political divides 17 April 2025 © UN Photo/Abel Kavangh A central plaza in Tripoli, the capital of Libya. Libya’s prolonged political transition is facing renewed strain, with mounting economic pressures and tensions between rival governments threatening the calm that has held since the 2020 ceasefire…

South Sudan on the brink as peace deal falters, UN warns

2 weeks 3 days ago Breadcrumb Home South Sudan on the brink as peace deal falters, UN warns 16 April 2025 WFP/Debbi Morello Displaced people in northern South Sudan. (file) South Sudan stands at a dangerous crossroads as rising political tensions threaten to derail a fragile peace deal, amid growing fears of renewed conflict in the world’s youngest nation, already buckling under a deepening humanitarian crisis…

Haiti crisis could impact regional and global stability

2 weeks 3 days ago Breadcrumb Home Haiti crisis could impact regional and global stability 16 April 2025 © IOM/Antoine Lemonnier Amy Pope, Director General of the International Organization for Migration meets displaced people in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The situation in Haiti represents “one of the most complex and urgent crises in the world with implications for regional and global stability,” said Amy Pope,…