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Humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate in El Fasher, Sudan

1 week 1 day ago Breadcrumb Home Humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate in El Fasher, Sudan 16 April 2025 © Al-Saudi Maternity Hospital تعرض مستشفى الفاشر في دارفور لتدمير جزئي بعد قصف مدفعي في تشرين الأول/أكتوبر. Escalating violence and deteriorating humanitarian conditions in and around El Fasher in Sudan continue to be of grave concern, the United Nations said on Wednesday.…

Security Council urged to support eastern DR Congo peace initiatives

1 week 1 day ago Breadcrumb Home Security Council urged to support eastern DR Congo peace initiatives 16 April 2025 © WFP/Michael Castofas A woman dismantles her shelter at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Goma in the eastern DR Congo. Despite numerous regional and international diplomatic initiatives, the security situation remains critical in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Security…

Haiti crisis could impact regional and global stability

1 week 1 day ago Breadcrumb Home Haiti crisis could impact regional and global stability 16 April 2025 © IOM/Antoine Lemonnier Amy Pope, Director General of the International Organization for Migration meets displaced people in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The situation in Haiti represents “one of the most complex and urgent crises in the world with implications for regional and global stability,” said Amy Pope,…

South Sudan on the brink as peace deal falters, UN warns

1 week 1 day ago Breadcrumb Home South Sudan on the brink as peace deal falters, UN warns 16 April 2025 WFP/Debbi Morello Displaced people in northern South Sudan. (file) South Sudan stands at a dangerous crossroads as rising political tensions threaten to derail a fragile peace deal, amid growing fears of renewed conflict in the world’s youngest nation, already buckling under a deepening humanitarian crisis…

Committee on Rights of Migrant Workers Launches General Comment on the Convergence of the Migrant Workers’ Convention and the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration

1 week 1 day ago Breadcrumb Home Committee on Rights of Migrant Workers Launches General Comment on the Convergence of the Migrant Workers’ Convention and the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration 15 April 2025 Meeting Summaries The Committee on Migrant Workers today held an event to launch its general comment six on the convergent protection of the rights of migrant workers and members of their families through the International…

UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING

1 week 2 days ago Breadcrumb Home UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING 15 April 2025 UN Geneva Press Briefing  Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired a hybrid press briefing, which was attended by the representatives and spokespersons of the United Nations Development Programme, UN Women, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the International Organization for Migration, and the United Nations Refugee…

Israeli strikes in Lebanon continue to kill civilians, UN rights office warns

1 week 2 days ago Breadcrumb Home Israeli strikes in Lebanon continue to kill civilians, UN rights office warns 15 April 2025 © ЮНИСЕФ/Ф.Чуфани Разрушения на юге Ливана. Israeli military operations in Lebanon have continued to claim civilian lives and destroy vital infrastructure, the UN human rights office warned on Tuesday, raising alarm over mounting violations since a ceasefire agreement took effect last November…

Israeli strike on hospital ‘further cripples’ Gaza’s fragile health system

1 week 2 days ago Breadcrumb Home Israeli strike on hospital ‘further cripples’ Gaza’s fragile health system 15 April 2025 © WHO A hospital in Gaza City damaged during the ongoing conflict. An Israeli strike on a hospital in southern Gaza on Tuesday has further jeopardized already limited access to lifesaving medical care in the war-torn enclave…

External flow of weapons into Sudan must end, insists UN’s Guterres

1 week 2 days ago Breadcrumb Home External flow of weapons into Sudan must end, insists UN’s Guterres 15 April 2025 © UNOCHA/Giles Clarke Some 400 people are now living in the Omar Haj Musa ​site for displaced people in Kassala, eastern Sudan. Two years to the day since Sudan’s brutal war erupted between rival generals who rejected the peaceful transition to civilian rule after the overthrow of Omar Al-Bashir, UN chief…

UN forum tackles slavery reparations for Africa, people of African descent

1 week 2 days ago Breadcrumb Home UN forum tackles slavery reparations for Africa, people of African descent 15 April 2025 Unsplash Fort of Goree Island, Senegal, was the site of one of the earliest European settlements in Western Africa. The calls for reparatory justice can no longer be ignored, speakers at the fourth session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on African Descent in New York said on Tuesday.…