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Resettlement changed her life. Now she’s fighting for others to have the same chance

·June 25, 2025·2 min read

Currently, she’s a qualified refugee and human rights lawyer in New Zealand – but on Tuesday she recalled becoming displaced aged 14 and described the harrowing limbo that followed. Invisible and alone “I grew up invisible to the world,” she said. “Without rights, opportunities, or safety.” That all changed in...

What time is it on the Moon? It’s all relative…

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·June 24, 2025·3 min read

Surely, you might think, we can just agree that one Earth time zone can be used for “Moon time”? Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), for example. How hard can it be? Unfortunately, this doesn’t work, for several reasons. Here on Earth, timekeeping is easy to take for granted: we divide our...

Gaza: Over 400 Palestinians killed around private aid hubs, UN rights office says

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·June 24, 2025·3 min read

The alert comes nearly a month since the Israeli and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) started operating on 27 May in select hubs, bypassing the UN and other established NGOs. Its food distribution points have been associated frequently with confusion and shooting as desperate and hungry Gazans rush to fetch supplies, said...

Yemen: Nearly half the population facing acute food insecurity in some southern areas

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·June 24, 2025·1 min read

Yemen remains trapped in a prolonged political, humanitarian and development crisis, after enduring years of conflict between government forces and Houthi rebels, with populations in the south of the country now facing a growing food insecurity crisis. A partial update released Monday by the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC)...

80 years later, the UN Charter is a ‘living miracle,’ Secretary-General says

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·June 24, 2025·2 min read

The UN Charter “is more than parchment and ink; it is a promise – of peace, dignity and cooperation among nations,” the Secretary-General said. Almost 80 years after it was signed, Mr. Guterres underlined that the Charter was just the beginning, enshrining ideas and principles which the world works to...

Senior envoy warns Iran-Israel conflict is deepening crisis in Afghanistan

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·June 23, 2025·4 min read

Roza Otunbayeva, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative and head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), said the ongoing missile attacks between Iran and Israel are already having a tangible impact. “This conflict is already having an effect in Afghanistan, disrupting trade and increasing the prices of basic goods and...

Iran-Israel crisis: IAEA chief calls for access to damaged nuclear sites

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·June 23, 2025·3 min read

Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), was addressing the agency’s Board of Governors, amid fresh reports of new Israeli missile strikes on Iranian military sites in Tehran and elsewhere earlier on Monday. Iranian weapons fire has also been reported across Israel. Mr. Grossi – who also...

Guterres condemns deadly attack on peacekeepers in Central African Republic

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·June 23, 2025·1 min read

The ambush took place on Friday along the Birao-Am Dafock axis in the volatile Vakaga Prefecture, in northeastern CAR, close to the border with conflict-hit Sudan. According to the stabilization mission, MINUSCA, the patrol was targeted by “unidentified armed elements” in the locality of Am-Sissia. Attack may be a war...

Gaza: UN warns of ‘weaponised hunger’ and growing death toll amid food chaos

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·June 23, 2025·1 min read

Speaking to journalists in Deir al Balah on Saturday, Jonathan Whittall, who heads the UN humanitarian coordination office (OCHA) in Gaza and the West Bank, said: “The attempt to survive is being met with a death sentence.” Since Israel eased its total blockade last month, more than 400 people are...

What is financing for development?

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·June 22, 2025·5 min read

These are part of 17 goals agreed by nearly every country, called the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The plan is to hit these targets by 2030. But we’re falling behind. One big reason? There just isn’t enough consistent funding to make real progress. That’s why world leaders, economists, and other...

Gaza horrors continue as the weakest succumb to injuries and disease

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·June 22, 2025·2 min read

“I met a little boy who was wounded by a tank shell at one of these sites on the final day of me leaving Gaza – I learnt that this little boy had since died of those injuries,” said UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) spokesperson James Elder. “That speaks to both...

UN chief ‘gravely alarmed’ by US bombing of Iranian nuclear sites

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·June 22, 2025·1 min read

“I am gravely alarmed by the use of force by the United States against Iran today,” said the UN chief, reiterating that there is no military solution. “This is a dangerous escalation in a region already on the edge – and a direct threat to international peace and security.” President...