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Packed with promise: Wisam’s journey back to school in Sudan
27 February 2025
Wisam sits in her classroom, absorbed in her work, her fingers gripping a blue-coloured pencil, carefully sketching a flower in her notebook, one of more than 100,000 displaced students in war-torn Sudan who have returned to classes, with the support of Education Cannot Wait for the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) efforts to distribute urgently needed school supplies to help them get back to…
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UN agencies condemn Thailand’s deportation of Uyghurs to China
27 February 2025
The UN human rights office (OHCHR) together with refugee agency, UNHCR, on Thursday strongly condemned Thailand’s deportation of 40 Uyghurs to China, calling it a serious violation of international law and the fundamental principle of non-refoulement.
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DR Congo: WHO tracks deadly mysterious illness
27 February 2025
Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) are carrying out further investigations to determine the cause of another cluster of illness and deaths in Équateur province, UN officials reported on Thursday.
In recent months, disease…
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US funding cuts confirmed, ending lifesaving support for women and girls
27 February 2025
The United States has cut $377 million worth of funding to the UN reproductive and sexual health agency, UNFPA, it was confirmed on Thursday, leading to potentially “devasting impacts”, on women and girls.
“At 7pm on 26 February, UNFPA was informed that nearly all of our grants (48 as of…
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Greatest threat to UN Peacekeeping is divisions between nations, says UN Peace Operations Chief
26 February 2025
Peacekeeping efforts by the United Nations are being challenged by growing disunity between Member States, the UN head of Peace Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix said in an interview with UN News, during the Conference for Women Peacekeepers in New Delhi.
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Syria: UN scales up aid deliveries as regional fighting continues
26 February 2025
UN humanitarians on Wednesday reported a scaling up of humanitarian aid into northwest Syria, even as hostilities continue to impact civilians and limit access in different parts of the country.
UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told journalists at a regular news briefing in New York that aid…
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Human Rights Council: Gaza ceasefire must hold, Türk insists
26 February 2025
UN human rights chief Volker Türk issued a strong appeal on Wednesday for the fragile ceasefire in Gaza to hold, amid delays to talks between Hamas and Israel on extending the truce into the second phase.
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Sudan war: Any peace deal must respect national sovereignty, UN envoy says
26 February 2025
As the war in Sudan approaches a third year, the UN Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy for the country has emphasized the need to re-double and coordinate efforts towards a peace agreement that respects national sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity – and ending the world’s largest humanitarian crisis.…
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New report flags severity of US funding cuts to global AIDS response
26 February 2025
Shuttered clinics and health workers laid off around the world reflect the widespread, negative toll the United States funding freeze is taking on the global AIDS response, according to a new situation report released on Wednesday by the UN agency charged with responding to the disease.…
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West Bank security situation remains alarming, warn UN aid agencies
26 February 2025
Weeks of deadly Israeli military raids in the occupied West Bank have turned Palestinian communities into “battlefields” and left 40,000 people homeless, UN humanitarians warned on Wednesday.
The violence has seen exchanges of fire between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants – and the…
