Srebrenica, 30 years on: UN officials and survivors call for truth, justice and vigilance
“I have survived a genocide,” said Munira Subašić, whose youngest son – her favourite – and 21 other family members…
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Funding shortages threaten relief for millions of Sudanese refugees: WFP
In an alert, the UN agency warned that it faces having to make “drastic cuts” to life-saving food assistance, which…
Sudan: ‘Fighting shows no signs of abating,’ senior UN official tells Security Council
On Friday, the UN Security Council heard sobering briefings from Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Africa, and Shayna Lewis,…
Myanmar human rights crisis deepens as aid collapses, attacks intensify
In a stark briefing to the Human Rights Council in Geneva, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk described…
UN rights office sounds the alarm over forced displacement in the West Bank
Israeli authorities have stepped up measures to transfer large numbers of people from long-standing Palestinian towns and communities, according to…
DR Congo: Conflict survivors ‘have been through hell,’ says UN aid chief
Speaking from the Goma region, whose main city was overrun by Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in January, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator…
‘A moral failure’: Security Council hears about grave violations against children caught in war
“From that day on, our home became a travel bag and our path became that of displacement … My childhood…
Gaza: Over 400 Palestinians killed around private aid hubs, UN rights office says
The alert comes nearly a month since the Israeli and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) started operating on 27 May in select…
World News in Brief: Türk speaks out on sexual violence, Brazil floods update, Nicaraguan human rights violations
“We are not meeting the minimum requirement to prevent women from being silenced, and support their participation and leadership in…building…
For too long, ‘unbound horrors’ have unfolded in Sudan
Since civil war erupted in April 2023 between the generals of the national army and their former allies-turned rivals, the…