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UN rights body rules Guatemala failed displaced Mayan Peoples

9 hours 18 minutes ago Breadcrumb Home UN rights body rules Guatemala failed displaced Mayan Peoples 08 May 2025 Unsplash/Arturo Rivera A street vendor in Antigua, Guatemala. The UN Human Rights Committee has found that Guatemala did not follow through on promises to resettle and compensate Mayan Peoples who remain forcibly displaced.…

UNRWA condemns ‘storming’ of schools in East Jerusalem

9 hours 18 minutes ago Breadcrumb Home UNRWA condemns ‘storming’ of schools in East Jerusalem 08 May 2025 WFP Video Gaza faces severe shortages of food, water and medicine. (file) The UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, has strongly condemned the forced entry by Israeli security forces into three of its schools in occupied East Jerusalem, describing it as a violation of children’s right to education and safety…

Port Sudan: No let-up in drone attacks as UN chief urges peace

9 hours 18 minutes ago Breadcrumb Home Port Sudan: No let-up in drone attacks as UN chief urges peace 08 May 2025 © WFP/Abubakar Garelnabei أم تحمل رضيعها في بورت سودان، شرق السودان. Amid reports that renewed drone strikes on a key Sudanese aid hub were thwarted late Wednesday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres added his voice to increasingly urgent calls for serious peace negotiations to end more than two years of war in…

Guterres welcomes election of Pope Leo ‘at a time of great global challenges’

9 hours 18 minutes ago Breadcrumb Home Guterres welcomes election of Pope Leo ‘at a time of great global challenges’ 08 May 2025 © Unsplash St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, Rome. UN Secretary-General António Guterres welcomed the announcement of a new Pope on Thursday.  His Holiness Pope Leo XIV – born Robert Francis…

Absent faces, destroyed homes – young students paint the pain of Gaza

1 day 9 hours ago Breadcrumb Home Absent faces, destroyed homes – young students paint the pain of Gaza 07 May 2025 UN News Fatima Al-Za’anin, a displaced Palestinian girl from Beit Hanoun (Gaza), speaks about her drawings in an art exhibition organized by UNRWA in Gaza City as part of its mental health and psychosocial support services. Students displaced by the war in Gaza have been channeling their anguish into art in…

Port Sudan: Aid officials call for greater protection as drone attacks continue

1 day 9 hours ago Breadcrumb Home Port Sudan: Aid officials call for greater protection as drone attacks continue 07 May 2025 © UNICEF/Tess Ingram Children peer through a UNICEF tent at a child-friendly space in Kassala state, Sudan. The UN has renewed its call to end the brutal conflict in Sudan after a surge in drone strikes, including in Port Sudan — the vital hub and lifeline for humanitarian aid.…

DPR Korea ploughing ahead with nuclear and ballistic missile programme

1 day 9 hours ago Breadcrumb Home DPR Korea ploughing ahead with nuclear and ballistic missile programme 07 May 2025 UN Photo/Loey Felipe Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General in the UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations, briefs the Security Council on non-proliferation and Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. A top UN official has warned that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (…

DR Congo aid operation reaches Beni with food supplies for thousands

1 day 9 hours ago Breadcrumb Home DR Congo aid operation reaches Beni with food supplies for thousands 07 May 2025 MONUSCO/Sylvain Liechti WFP convoys have reached Beni, eastern DR Congo, with critical food aid. (file photo) A UN food convoy has successfully delivered vital supplies to support tens of thousands of displaced people affected by escalating violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to…

New horror in Gaza as double strike on school shelter kills 30

1 day 9 hours ago Breadcrumb Home New horror in Gaza as double strike on school shelter kills 30 07 May 2025 © UNRWA An UNRWA school sheltering displaced families in Gaza has received a direct hit. Grim details emerged on Wednesday of Israeli airstrikes on a UN-run school in Gaza sheltering 2,000 displaced people, which reportedly killed 30 Palestinians sheltering there…

Exhausted Sudanese flee into Chad as fighting escalates

2 days 9 hours ago Breadcrumb Home Exhausted Sudanese flee into Chad as fighting escalates 06 May 2025 © WFP/Eloge Mbaihondoum Refugees from wartorn Sudan wait at a food distribution centre in neighbouring Chad. Most of the new arrivals are women and children, says the UN refugee agency (UNHCR). Thousands of exhausted Sudanese refugees continue to flee fighting in search of safety in neighbouring Chad, aid teams said on…