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Syria: Children among the dead amid reports of mass killings and looting

·March 10, 2025·1 min read

According to Edouard Beigbeder, UNICEF’s Regional Director for the Middle East, a six-month-old baby was among at least 13 children reported to have been killed. Clashes erupted on Friday between Syrian Caretaker Authority forces and soldiers loyal to the former Assad regime. According to widely reported eyewitness accounts much of...

Yemen: ‘Fear of a return to full conflict is palpable’, says UN envoy

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·March 10, 2025·3 min read

The “current trajectory is deeply concerning,” he told ambassadors, updating them on the latest political developments in the country, where Houthi rebels – formally known as Ansar Allah – have been battling Government forces backed by a Saudi-led coalition, for more than a decade. He spoke alongside UN Emergency Relief...

Explainer: The Commission on the Status of Women and why it matters

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·March 10, 2025·5 min read

The annual UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) meets to address the widespread inequalities, violence and discrimination women continue to face around the world. This year, the commission will gather at UN Headquarters in New York from 10 to 21 March. Here are five things you need to...

Ukraine reels from one of the deadliest days of war

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·March 10, 2025·1 min read

“With 21 civilians reported killed, 7 March was one of the deadliest days for civilians in Ukraine so far this year,” UN mission chief Danielle Bell said Russian’s full-scale invasion in February 2022 has killed thousands and left millions displaced by the ongoing war. The UN monitoring mission said all...

UN rights chief raises alarm over escalating violence in Syria

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·March 9, 2025·1 min read

The killing of civilians in coastal areas in northwest Syria must cease immediately, the UN rights chief said on Sunday following a series of coordinated attacks reportedly launched by elements of the former government and other local armed men....

UN Assembly President calls for just and lasting peace in Ukraine

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·March 9, 2025·5 min read

The meeting, held under the Assembly’s veto initiative, followed Russia’s use of its Security Council veto on 24 February to block amendments to a United States-led draft resolution on the conflict in Ukraine. The two amendments were proposed by the Council’s European members – France, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Greece,...

Occupied Palestinian Territory: Israeli operations continue to have dire consequences

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·March 9, 2025·1 min read

The UN relief agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) reports that Israeli authorities have started demolishing more than 16 buildings in Nur Shams refugee camp, after destroying more than two dozen homes over the past week in the occupied West Bank. Those displaced are staying at public shelters in Jenin and...

Millions in Central Sahel and Nigeria face food cuts amid WFP funding crisis

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·March 9, 2025·1 min read

The crisis is being exacerbated by the expected early arrival of the lean season – the period between harvests when hunger peaks. Chronic hunger is being driven by conflict, displacement, economic instability and severe climate shocks, WFP said, with devastating floods in 2024 affecting over six million people across West...

Post-Assad Syria faces critical test over eliminating chemical weapons

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·March 8, 2025·3 min read

Briefing ambassadors, Izumi Nakamitsu, UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, welcomed steps taken by the country’s new authorities to engage with the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and work toward full compliance with international law. “Syria has started to take its steps towards this objective,” she said,...

Online ‘manosphere’ is moving misogyny to the mainstream

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·March 8, 2025·5 min read

The pushback against gender equality is one of the findings in a major report from UN Women, the UN agency for gender equality, on the progress made so far in advancing women’s rights worldwide. This latest version of the study, which is updated every five years, comes at a time...

DR Congo crisis leaves mothers with newborns fleeing to Burundi

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·March 8, 2025·2 min read

“Over 63,000 people now have crossed into the country, Burundi, fleeing atrocities, deadly conflict in parts of eastern DR Congo,” said Faith Kasina, UNHCR Regional Spokesperson for East and Horn of Africa and Great Lakes. Amid the largest influx of refugees Burundi has seen in decades because of the hostilities...

Scores killed in ‘abhorrent attack’ on UN helicopter in South Sudan

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·March 8, 2025·1 min read

More than two dozen members of the South Sudanese military, including an injured General, were also reportedly killed when the UN mission (UNMISS) helicopter came under fire in Nasir, Upper Nile State. According to news reports, the helicopter later landed safely. The extraction was being carried out at the request...