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Top UN advocate sounds alarm over sexual violence crisis in gang-ravaged Haiti

Haiti has been gripped by spiralling gang violence ever since the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. The subsequent unrest has displaced one million people, more than half of them children, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM…

World Environment Day: UN sounds alarm on plastic pollution crisis

Every year, 400 million tonnes of plastic are produced worldwide, according to the UN. Half of this plastic is designed to be used only once, and only 10 per cent is recycled. Between 19 and…

Gaza: UN rights chief condemns new killings around private aid hub

UN human rights chief Volker Türk has condemned new reports that dozens more Gazans were killed early Tuesday “trying to access paltry amounts of food” around a private aid hub in the south of the enclave run by the US and Israel…

As displacement surges in South Sudan, regional humanitarian crisis deepens

Since a sharp escalation in fighting in South Sudan in late February, 165,000 people have fled their homes, seeking safety either within the country or across borders, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said on Tuesday.…

World News in Brief: Aid for Syria, children under attack in Mozambique, rights-based climate action

Nearly 16 million people in Syria need urgent humanitarian health support, the UN warned on Tuesday, as aid deliveries continue amid escalating needs, deadly explosive hazards and a severe funding shortfall…

Sudan: Rise in people fleeing to Chad as violence surges

The number of Sudanese refugees in Chad has more than tripled in just over two years amid the ongoing war in their homeland, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said in an alert on Tuesday. Overall, some 1.2…

Five humanitarians killed in ‘horrendous’ attack on aid convoy in Sudan

An aid convoy carrying life-saving assistance for the famine-affected area of North Darfur, Sudan, was attacked on Monday night, killing five humanitarian workers, injuring many more and damaging critical humanitarian supplies. …

Five countries elected to serve on UN Security Council

Bahrain, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Latvia, and Liberia were elected on Tuesday to serve as non-permanent members of the UN Security Council, with two-year terms beginning in January 2026…

Haiti: WFP concerned over humanitarian situation as hurricane season begins

As the hurricane season gets underway in the Caribbean, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) is sounding the alarm over Haiti’s humanitarian situation. With roughly half the population, 5.7 million…

Frontline Ukrainian families face perilous task of farming mined fields

As Ukrainian and Russian delegations meet for a second round of preliminary peace talks in Turkïye on Monday, rural communities faced their own challenge: finding something to eat. According to the…