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One in four countries report backlash against women’s rights in 2024
06 March 2025
The basic rights of women and girls are facing unprecedented growing threats worldwide, from higher levels of discrimination to weaker legal protections -and less funding for programmes and institutions which support and protect women.
UN Women’s latest report Women's Rights in Review 30…
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Yemen: ‘Fear of a return to full conflict is palpable’, says UN envoy
06 March 2025
After several years of fragile truce, there is a “palpable” fear of a return to all-out war in Yemen, said Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen Hans Grundberg on Thursday, briefing the Security Council.
The “current trajectory is deeply concerning,” he told ambassadors, updating…
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UN emergency aid fund releases $110 million for neglected humanitarian crises
06 March 2025
Amid deep cuts to global humanitarian funding, the UN’s Central Emergency Response Fund, CERF, on Thursday allocated $110 million to neglected crises across Africa, Asia and Latin America.
The UN’s top aid official, Tom Fletcher, said that more than 300 million people urgently need…
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Choose compassion, reject cruelty to end HIV, says top UN rights official
06 March 2025
Global efforts to tackle the HIV/AIDS epidemic continue to remain insufficient, with deadly consequences, the UN Human Rights Council heard on Thursday.
In a stark assessment of the current situation of the health crisis, Deputy UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada Al-Nashif warned…
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UN Assembly President calls for just and lasting peace in Ukraine
06 March 2025
The President of the General Assembly on Thursday renewed his call for a just, lasting and comprehensive peace between Ukraine and Russia, in line with the UN Charter and the principles of sovereign equality and territorial integrity.
The meeting, held under the Assembly’s veto initiative,…
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Experts of the Human Rights Committee Commend Montenegro’s Measures Preventing Violence against Women, Raise Issues Concerning Corruption and Historic Human Rights Violations
05 March 2025
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Committee today concluded its consideration of the second periodic report of Montenegro on how it implements the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Committee Experts commended the State for its measures…
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OHCHR Press Conference- Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing
05 March 2025
Press Conference Announcement
Who benefits from a manufactured migration crisis and what has that to do with the housing crisis?
Embargoed until 7 March at 1 p.m.
Balakrishnan Rajagopal, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing
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Syrians’ hopes for a better future depend on justice for the disappeared, Human Rights Council hears
05 March 2025
The people of Syria’s painful search for a peaceful future took centre stage at the UN on Wednesday as one leading representative of the families of the country’s forcibly disappeared spoke of the continuing pain of not knowing their fate.
Yasmen Almashan, a…
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Funding cuts jeopardise global fight against tuberculosis, WHO warns
05 March 2025
The UN World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Wednesday that severe funding cuts – particularly in the United States – are threatening decades of progress in the fight against tuberculosis (TB), still the world’s deadliest infectious disease.
The health agency highlighted that essential…
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World News in Brief: Guterres convenes Cyprus meeting, violence continues in southern Lebanon, UN aid hub in Chad expands
05 March 2025
The UN Secretary-General on Wednesday announced he would be convening fresh talks over the future of Cyprus, scheduled to take place over two days from 17 March.
UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told journalists at the regular daily briefing…
