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Bold action needed now to address ‘cataclysmic’ situation in Haiti
28 March 2024
Immediate and bold action is required to tackle the “cataclysmic” situation in Haiti, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said in a report issued on Thursday.
Corruption, impunity and poor governance, compounded by increasing levels of gang violence, have eroded the rule of law in the…
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Russia: Rights experts condemn continued imprisonment of Evan Gershkovich
28 March 2024
Russia must immediately release American journalist Evan Gershkovich, who has been detained without evidence for a year, two UN human rights experts said on Thursday.
The 32-year-old Wall Street Journal reporter was arrested last March in Yekatarinburg on espionage charges and is…
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New $1.4 billion plan to support South Sudanese refugees
28 March 2024
The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, and partners on Thursday appealed for $1.4 billion this year to support more than two million South Sudanese refugees in five African countries and local communities hosting them.
Since the start of the conflict in South Sudan over 10 years ago, growing humanitarian…
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Health system ‘barely surviving’ as OCHA calls for Gaza aid restrictions to end
28 March 2024
Gaza’s health system is ‘barely surviving’ after more than five months of Israeli bombardment, the head of the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.
In a social media post, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that only 10 out of 36 hospitals are now partially functioning…
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Gaza: World court issues fresh measures for Israel as crisis deepens
28 March 2024
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Thursday issued new provisional measures for Israel as the humanitarian situation in bombarded and besieged Gaza continues to deteriorate.
The world court issued the new order in response to a recent request made by South Africa, which submitted…
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World News in Brief: Russia vetoes DPR Korea sanctions resolution, children under fire in Sudan, drought plagues Malawi
28 March 2024
A United States resolution to extend the mandate of an expert panel which monitors sanctions against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) was vetoed by Russia in the Security Council on Thursday.
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Human Rights Committee Adopts Reports on Follow-Up to Concluding Observations Concerning Finland, Paraguay, Tunisia and Uzbekistan
27 March 2024
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Committee today adopted reports on follow-up to concluding observations concerning Finland, Paraguay, Tunisia and Uzbekistan.Imeru Tamerat Yigezu, Committee Expert and the Special Rapporteur on follow-up to concluding observations, presented the assessment of the responses provided by Finland,…
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New Permanent Representative of Venezuela Presents Credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva
27 March 2024
Presentation of Credentials
Alexander Gabriel Yánez Deleuze, the new Permanent Representative of Venezuela to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.Prior to his appointment to…
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First Person: ‘We had to avoid stepping on the bodies in the streets’ in Darfur
27 March 2024
A former UN staff member who worked for a decade in Sudan’s Darfur region for the African Union-United Nations mission, UNAMID, has told UN News how she had to “avoid stepping on the bodies in the streets” as she fled for her life to neighbouring Chad.
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DR Congo mission chief says humanitarian disaster ‘unfolding before our very eyes’
27 March 2024
Insecurity in the volatile eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has worsened since the end of recent elections, UN Special Representative Bintou Keita told the Security Council on Wednesday.
Ms. Keita, who also heads the UN peacekeeping mission in the country,…
