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Lebanon: Final repatriation flight brings Brazilians home amid ceasefire

·December 1, 2024·3 min read

The 13th and possibly last mission under Brazil’s Operation Cedar Roots carried 150 passengers, including elderly persons and children, back to safety. For many, the relief of reaching Brazilian soil was tempered by the devastation they left behind. “I’m very happy, very thankful for this repatriation operation, which sent a...

Lebanon ceasefire deal: displaced communities start to return home

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·November 27, 2024·2 min read

“Immediately after the ceasefire came into force at 4am, residents of south Lebanon, the southern suburbs of Beirut and the Bekaa (valley) began their return after months of forced displacement,” said the UN refugee agency, UNHCR. “Heavy traffic [was] observed on the highway from Beirut to the south since the...

Demining Ukraine: Bringing lifesaving expertise back home

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·July 8, 2023·5 min read

“People are suffering greatly due to landmines,” Mr. Lobov told UN News, adding that experts have reported that almost one third of the country is contaminated with unexploded ordnance. “Many adults and children have died,” he said. “We have the highest rate of such losses in the world. No one...

Afghanistan mission chief to Taliban: Bans on women and girls cost you legitimacy at home and abroad

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·June 21, 2023·2 min read

UN Special Representative Roza Otunbayeva was briefing the Security Council on the dire situation facing the country and the international aid effort, with UN women workers among those now prevented by Taliban edicts from working. “We will not put our national staff in danger and therefore we are asking them not...

Escaping Sudan: Home alone, with warplanes overhead

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·May 8, 2023·8 min read

“I spent the night in fear, unable to go out of my house, as people were being killed everywhere,” she said, worrying about how she would protect her five-year-old son and three-year-old daughter. Panicked by the sounds of shooting and warplanes flying overhead, she tried calling her husband at work,...

‘Bring them home’: UN experts call for repatriating detained Syria children

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·April 1, 2023·2 min read

Children in conflict zones must be protected, not punished, said the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, together with Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, UN Special Rapporteur on the protection and promotion of human rights while countering terrorism, in a joint statement. “It is now time to bring them home,”...

Revive and restore wetlands, home to 40 per cent of all biodiversity

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·February 2, 2023·3 min read

On World Wetlands Day, observed this Thursday, the United Nations is calling for urgent action to revive and restore these ecosystems, which are disappearing three times faster than forests. Wetlands cover roughly six per cent of the Earth’s land surface and are vital for human health, food supply, tourism and...

Home, belonging, and the Holocaust

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·January 26, 2023·5 min read

In 1933, Hitler began putting the party’s core racist and nationalist ideology into practice, identifying who could claim Germany as home and who in their view, really belonged in the country. This process went way beyond enacting legislation to define and exclude Jews from society: the Nazis launched misinformation and...

International Migrants Day: 280 million people leave home for ‘a better life’

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·December 18, 2022·3 min read

Secretary-General António Guterres credited the more than 80 per cent of those who cross borders in a safe and orderly fashion as powerful drivers of “economic growth, dynamism, and understanding”. “But unregulated migration along increasingly perilous routes – the cruel realm of traffickers – continues to extract a terrible cost”,...

Home is a deadly place for many women and girls, UN report reveals

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·November 28, 2022·4 min read

The study by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and UN Women was issued ahead of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, observed annually on 25 November. Of the 81,000 women and girls intentionally killed last year, 45,000 – around 56 per cent –...

First Person: One year on from Haiti earthquake, time to return home |

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·August 13, 2022·2 min read

“When the earthquake struck, I had no idea what it was as I had never experienced something so loud and dramatic before. I thought it was an act of God and I was terrified. My whole house was shaking so I rushed outside with my daughter to see what was...

Ethiopian migrants head home on first ever return flight from Yemen’s Ma’rib |

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·June 10, 2022·1 min read

It is the first of several flights that the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has planned to help 900 Ethiopians flee the Arabian Peninsula in the coming month. “Migrants stranded in Ma’rib are living in fear,” said Christa Rottensteiner, IOM Yemen’s Chief of Mission. “Many are under the control of smuggling groups...