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UN Security Council condemns Jammu and Kashmir terror attack

2 days 22 hours ago Breadcrumb Home UN Security Council condemns Jammu and Kashmir terror attack 25 April 2025 UN Photo/Loey Felipe A wide view of the Security Council Chamber. (file photo) The UN Security Council has strongly condemned the deadly terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday that killed at least 26 tourists and left many more injured, calling for accountability and international cooperation to bring the…

From border control to belonging: How host communities gain from empowering refugees

2 days 22 hours ago Breadcrumb Home From border control to belonging: How host communities gain from empowering refugees 25 April 2025 PAHO/Karen González Abril Venezuelan refugees make their way to the Colombian border town of La Guajira. With humanitarian aid in decline, the international community must shift its focus from short-term relief efforts to inclusive policies that support both refugees and host communities…

Destitution and disease stalk Myanmar’s quake survivors

2 days 22 hours ago Breadcrumb Home Destitution and disease stalk Myanmar’s quake survivors 25 April 2025 © UNOCHA/Myaa Aung Thein Kyaw People shelter in a school compound in Mandalay, Myanmar following the March earthquake. One month since Myanmar’s earthquake disaster, tens of thousands of survivors still live in makeshift tents with little to protect them from pre-monsoon storms and mosquitoes…

WFP runs out of food stocks in Gaza

2 days 22 hours ago Breadcrumb Home WFP runs out of food stocks in Gaza 25 April 2025 © UNICEF A woman and child walk through the rubble of Gaza. The World Food Programme (WFP) has run out of food in the Gaza Strip as Israel continues to block the entry of all humanitarian aid into the enclave, home to over two million people.…

Security Council debates precarious path forward for a new Syria

2 days 22 hours ago Breadcrumb Home Security Council debates precarious path forward for a new Syria 25 April 2025 UN Photo/Mark Garten Foreign Miniser Asaad Al-Shaibani of the Syrian Arab Republic, raises the new flag of the country at the UN Headquarters in New York. Syria is undergoing a rocky transition after years of conflict and authoritarian rule. Despite tentative political progress, ongoing violence, deepening…

Ukraine: Continued Russian assaults drive civilians from frontline communities

2 days 22 hours ago Breadcrumb Home Ukraine: Continued Russian assaults drive civilians from frontline communities 25 April 2025 © Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine/Anastasiia Honcharuk Rescue workers dig through the rubble of a bombed building in Kyiv, Ukraine. As Ukrainian cities struggle to recover from this week’s deadly missile and drone strikes, frontline areas remain under relentless attack, the UN refugee…

DR Congo crisis forces refugees to swim for their lives to Burundi

2 days 22 hours ago Breadcrumb Home DR Congo crisis forces refugees to swim for their lives to Burundi 25 April 2025 © UNHCR/Charity Nzomo The UNHCR-supported Musenyi refugee site in the south of Burundi, where refugees fleeing violence in DR Congo are being relocated. The number of desperate refugees fleeing conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and seeking safety in Burundi continues to rise, placing…

Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions Secretariat Press Conference

3 days ago Breadcrumb Home Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions Secretariat Press Conference 25 April 2025 Press Conference Announcement Rolph Payet, Executive Secretary of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions; David Ogden, Deputy Executive Secretary of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm ConventionsChristine Fuell, Executive Secretary, ad interim, of the Rotterdam Convention

In Dialogue with Turkmenistan, Experts of the Committee against Torture Commend Turkmenistan on Installing Cameras in Places of Detention, Ask about Measures to Prevent Torture in Prisons and the Treatment of Homosexual Persons

3 days 17 hours ago Breadcrumb Home In Dialogue with Turkmenistan, Experts of the Committee against Torture Commend Turkmenistan on Installing Cameras in Places of Detention, Ask about Measures to Prevent Torture in Prisons and the Treatment of Homosexual Persons 24 April 2025 Meeting Summaries  The Committee against Torture today concluded its consideration of the third periodic report of Turkmenistan, with Committee Experts commending the State for…

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Holds Informal Meeting with States Parties to the Convention

3 days 17 hours ago Breadcrumb Home Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Holds Informal Meeting with States Parties to the Convention 24 April 2025 Meeting Summaries The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today held an informal meeting with States parties to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.Opening the meeting, Michal Balcerzak, Committee Chair, said…