UN News - Global perspective Human stories

UN News - Global perspective Human stories

Global perspective Human stories

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September 5, 2025 4 mins
DR Congo crisis: funding cuts curtail assistance to victims of sexual violence warns OHCHRPakistan’s monsoon flood-hit communities face more miseryAir pollution is on the rise but China, Europe offer glimmer of hope: WMO
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As Afghanistan quake toll jumps to 2,200, aid agencies continue relief missionGaza: Families fleeing need a ceasefire desperately, says UNICEF workerPapua New Guinea is in frontline of climate change, warns UN’s Guterres
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September 3, 2025 4 mins
Afghanistan quake: Aid agencies call for emergency funding - WFPGaza: Desperate aid-seekers killed every day trying to get food - OCHAFunding cuts will have big impact on Human Rights Council, says President
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September 2, 2025 4 mins
Afghanistan quake: Aid teams scramble to reach most remote survivorsAlert over worsening situation for Myanmar’s remaining Rohingya: OHCHRLa Niña likely to return but global temperatures still set to rise: WMO
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September 1, 2025 3 mins
Aid effort gears up after Afghanistan quake ‘wipes out’ villages: UNHCR In Gaza, children out of school for third year running: UNRWA Guterres condemns detention of more UN staff in Yemen 
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August 29, 2025 4 mins
Descent into ‘massive famine’ in Gaza has begun: OCHA, WHOIran surge in executions signals further crackdown on protesters, minorities: OHCHRAfghanistan schools ban rejected by almost all men and women: UN Women
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August 28, 2025 3 mins
Gaza death and destruction is without parallel, says UN chiefUkraine: Condemnation for unrelenting Russian attacks; OCHA, UNICEFIn Yemen, IOM appeals for support amid deadly flooding
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August 27, 2025 4 mins
Viet Nam: Typhoon’s deadly destruction is not over, warns IOMGazans face even more hunger and disease unless aid is allowed in at scale: UN agenciesPeacekeepers in Lebanon still needed to push for regional stability: UNIFIL
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August 26, 2025 5 mins
UN human rights office calls for justice for journalists killed in GazaEgypt urged to end ‘rotation’ detention practice1 in 4 people still lacks access to drinking water
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August 25, 2025 3 mins
Gaza: UN condemns Israeli strike on hospitalEight years on from forced exodus, conditions keep worsening for RohingyaPakistan: Over 20,000 still displaced by deadly flash floods
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August 22, 2025 5 mins
Food security experts confirm famine in Gaza Sudan: UN rights office horrified by recent killings in El Fasher End impunity for violence against Rohingya in Myanmar: OHCHR 
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August 21, 2025 4 mins
UN chief calls for ceasefire in Gaza Pakistan suffers deadly floodingIn Ukraine, war is less stressful than exams, UNICEF says
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August 20, 2025 4 mins
UN chief calls for ‘new era of cooperation with Africa’ at Tokyo summit  Israeli plan to take full control of Gaza city will lead to further killings and displacement, warns UN human rights officeCorporal punishment remains widespread: WHO 
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August 19, 2025 3 mins
World Humanitarian Day 2025: Aid workers mull record death toll among fallen colleaguesHaiti: more than half of the population don’t have enough to eat – WFPWHO condemns rising attacks on healthcare
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August 18, 2025 3 mins
More young lives lost and devastated in Russian attacks on Ukraine: UNICEFGaza food assistance below half WFP’s daily targetImpacts of Somalia drought made worse by funding cuts: OCHA
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August 15, 2025 4 mins
Plastic pollution treaty talks adjourn in Geneva without consensusFrom Sudan to Yemen, conflict is fuelling cholera, warns WHOGaza: Nearly all people with disabilities have lost assistive devices
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August 14, 2025 4 mins
Türk: Peru amnesty law is an ‘affront’ to victims of country’s warSyria: Violence in Alawite areas may be war crimes, say rights investigatorsGaza 40C heatwave piles pressure on scant water supplies: UNRWA
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August 13, 2025 4 mins
Türk: Sri Lanka must seize opportunity to 'break with entrenched impunity'UN Human Rights urged Uganda to conditionally release opposition leaderMyanmar: Hunger surging in Rakhine state, warns WFP 
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August 12, 2025 3 mins
Report reveals ‘systematic torture’ and other crimes in Myanmar  Gaza hospitals overflow with people injured while seeking food: WHO UNESCO chief condemns killing of six journalists in Gaza City 
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August 11, 2025 4 mins
Gaza: UN rights office condemns killing of Palestinian journalistsAfghanistan: UNICEF urges safe returns amid education concernsWorld Steelpan Day: Celebrating a Caribbean instrument with global impact 
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