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UN agencies condemn Thailand’s deportation of Uyghurs to China

·February 28, 2025·1 min read

Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said the forced return of the Uyghurs, who had been detained in Thailand for over 11 years, was deeply troubling. “This violates the principle of non-refoulement for which there is a complete prohibition in cases where there is a real risk of...

West Bank security situation remains alarming, warn UN aid agencies

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·February 26, 2025·2 min read

The violence has seen exchanges of fire between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants – and the use of bulldozers in refugee camps for the first time in 20 years which have destroyed public services, including vital electricity and water networks. Israel’s defence minister said on Sunday forces could remain in...

UN agencies warn of worsening humanitarian and human rights crisis in eastern DR Congo

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·January 31, 2025·4 min read

The rebels have already seized the provincial capital, Goma, and reports indicate that they are closing in on the key city of Bukavu, capital of South Kivu province. The hostilities are occurring in a mineral-rich region that has been volatile for decades amid a proliferation of armed groups, which has...

DR Congo emergency: Next 24 hours are critical, warn UN agencies

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·January 28, 2025·4 min read

Dead bodies lie in the streets, hospitals are overwhelmed and there has been an uptick in reports of sexual violence, rape and looting. “Roads are blocked, ports are closed and those crossing Lake Kivu risk their lives in makeshift boats,” said Shelley Thakral, spokesperson for the UN World Food Programme...

Acute hunger stalks one in four people in DR Congo, warn aid agencies

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·November 22, 2024·2 min read

The alert from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) follows a new dire assessment from UN-partnered food insecurity experts has shown the hunger crisis is affecting much of the vast central African nation. The embattled east is a particular concern, where the situation is deteriorating after...

Lebanon: UN agencies call for ceasefire as war worsens dire conditions

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·November 2, 2024·4 min read

A new Israel airstrike hit the border post of Joussieh, where many Lebanese and Syrian people are crossing to escape the violence. “Humanitarian structures are also struck,” said Filippo Grandi, head of the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, in a social media post early Saturday. “Even fleeing (and taking care of...

‘Catastrophic’ hunger persists in multiple countries, warn food agencies

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·November 1, 2024·2 min read

“Without immediate humanitarian action and concerted efforts to overcome severe access constraints and resolve ongoing conflicts, further starvation and death are likely,” across these five hunger hotspots, warned the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP). In a new report designed to focus humanitarian action to...

UN agencies urge Security Council to stop ‘mass graves for migrants’

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·September 30, 2024·3 min read

“The scale of this tragedy, its impact on survivors, families and communities and the frequency with which we witness deaths in transit constitute an intolerable and utterly soluble, humanitarian crisis,” said Pär Liljert, director of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Office to the UN, referring to one of the...

Gaza crisis: aid agencies warn of ‘tragic, avoidable surge’ in child deaths

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·November 22, 2023·4 min read

“About 160 children are killed every day; that’s one every 10 minutes,” said UN World Health Organization (WHO) spokesperson Christian Lindmeier, echoing concerns from the UN Children’s Fund about the serious additional threat of a mass disease outbreak in the enclave. “If youngsters continue to have restricted access to water...

UN agencies urge action to safeguard maternal, child health amidst climate crisis

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·November 21, 2023·2 min read

In Protecting maternal, newborn and child health from the impacts of climate change, the World Health Organization (WHO), UN Population Fund (UNFPA), and UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) jointly underscore the neglect, underreporting, and underestimation of climate events’ effects on maternal and child health. It also draws attention to the importance...

Gaza: UN agencies make plea for international action to end hospital attacks

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·November 12, 2023·2 min read

The regional directors of the UN sexual and reproductive health agency (UNFPA), children’s agency UNICEF and health agency WHO, said they were “horrified” at latest reports which indicate many have been killed – including children – in facilities across Gaza city and other northern areas of the Strip. The Palestinian...

Gaza conflict could spark rise in poverty, UN agencies fear

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·November 11, 2023·2 min read

The assessment by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) looks at preliminary socio-economic impacts, warning that poverty could spike while Gross Domestic Product (GDP) could plummet by 8.4 per cent, which translates into a loss of $1.7 billion. Lamenting the loss...