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UNMISS has been released latest quarterly human rights reviewcovering the period July to September 2025 – a period marked by a continued deterioration of the political and security situation. Factors included ongoing inter/intra-community violence involving community militias and/or civil defense groups; hostilities between the warring parties and other armed groups – including the alleged involvement […]
In a new report released on Friday, the UN human rights office (OHCHR) said that since the 2021 elections, authorities have enacted or amended laws that entrench repression and impunity and target the political opposition, journalists, human rights defenders and people with dissenting opinions. High Commissioner Volker Türk urged Ugandan authorities to fulfill their international […]
The latest UN data shows that 9.3 million people have been uprooted by conflict across the country and more than 4.3 million have fled across the border, putting enormous pressure on neighboring countries. More than 21 million people across the country are believed to be in acute food insecurity. Although many of the displaced have […]
For frontline workers like Oleg Kemin from the UN World Food Program (WFP), this involves traveling deep into disputed territory along the 1,000-kilometer contact line separating Ukraine from Russia, where attack drones pose a deadly threat. In an exclusive interview with UN newsOleg describes his work as a security officer and the challenges he faces […]
The storm hit 90 locations in the governorates of Aleppo, Idleb and Al-Hasakeh on December 31, affecting more than 150,000 people. Humanitarian partners reported that two babies died from extreme cold in the Harim area of northern Idleb. About 5,000 shelters were partially or completely damaged, exposing families to freezing temperatures and putting them at […]
The US action made “all states around the world less safe,” said Ravina Shamdasani, spokesperson for the High Commissioner. Speaking to journalists in Geneva, Ms Shamdasani rejected the US justification for its intervention on the grounds of the Venezuelan government’s “long-standing and appalling” human rights record. “Accountability for human rights violations cannot be achieved through […]
U.S. President Donald Trump made the announcement on social media, and the U.S. attorney general said Mr. Maduro and his wife would face “the full wrath of American justice on American soil, in American courts,” based on a 2020 indictment during the first Trump administration in New York. UN photo/Cia Pak Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro […]
Since October’s fragile ceasefire began as phase one of the US-led peace plan, thousands of tents and hundreds of thousands of tarpaulins have been distributed. Yet partners estimate that more than a million people – about half of Gaza’s population – are still in urgent need of shelter support. “Needs remain enormous, and the harsh […]
The amendments adopted on 29 December to the Law to Cease UNRWA Operations “seek to further impede UNRWA’s ability to exercise and implement its mandated activities,” a UNRWA spokesperson said statement issued by the spokesperson of Secretary General Antonio Guterres. “The law and its amendments are inconsistent with the status and international legal framework applicable […]
In a statement, UNICEF identified the final victim as seven-year-old Ata Mai; he drowned on December 27 during “severe flooding” at a makeshift camp for internally displaced persons in Sudaniyeh, northwestern Gaza City. He is just the youngest child in Gaza to succumb to “extreme winter conditions and a lack of safe shelter,” said Edouard […]
