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RC blog: ‘It will take years to help people deal with the invisible consequences of war’

·January 1, 2025·6 min read

“I am continually inspired by the strength and courage of the Ukrainian people. As I have travelled to Kharkiv, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Sumy, Zaporizhzhia, and most recently to Kramatorsk and Lyman, I have seen for myself how the disruption of essential services such as electricity, water and heating affects people. I...

Sudan conflict: ‘There cannot be a military solution to this war’

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·December 29, 2024·4 min read

Ramtane Lamamra, the UN Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy For Sudan recently travelled to Sudan, where he met senior figures of the Government, including General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan Chairman of the Transitional Sovereign Council of Sudan and the Commander-in-Chief of the Sudanese Armed Forces. The Envoy also went to Ethiopia, where he talked...

UN News Champion: ‘Are you keeping up with the death?’ The grinding toll of war in Gaza

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·December 24, 2024·5 min read

“My team — my friends — are the reason I stand where I am today. This will, inevitably, evolve into a homage to them, but also to the Gaza I was so fortunate to know. Those who have known Gaza will understand exactly what I mean. The Gaza that existed...

‘We must not normalise the war in Ukraine,’ warns country coordinator

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·December 22, 2024·1 min read

The UN’s top official in the country – who also coordinates all the organization’s humanitarian work there – emphasised the urgent need for peace, justice, and sustained international support. In October and November alone, over 2,180 civilian deaths and injuries were verified. The intense fighting has also led to a...

‘War on drugs has failed, completely and utterly’: UN human rights chief

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·December 6, 2024·1 min read

Speaking at the ‘Dealing with Drugs II’ conference in Warsaw on Thursday, High Commissioner Volker Türk highlighted the urgent need for a human rights-based approach to drug regulation, pointing to record numbers of drug-related deaths and increasing drug use disorders. The conference, which builds on January’s ‘Dealing with Drugs I’...

1,000 days into Ukraine war, winter poses critical challenge to aid effort

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·November 15, 2024·2 min read

Speaking in Geneva, Matthias Schmale described the anguish felt by Ukrainians as the war grinds on: “As we are not only approaching winter but also the sad 1,000-day mark since the Russian Federation’s full-scale invasion in 2022, we are of course thinking of the more than 12,000 people who have...

Gaza: Israeli war tactics condemned as aid still blocked from reaching north

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·November 15, 2024·3 min read

An update from the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, said that in the last two days alone, “six attempts to deliver lifesaving assistance to besieged areas in North Gaza governorate were blocked”. The missions on Tuesday and Wednesday had aimed to bring food and water to Jabalia, Beit Hanoun and...

How has the war in Gaza affected UNRWA’s ability to support Palestinians?

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·November 7, 2024·1 min read

As well as bringing emergency aid to those living in Occupied Palestinian Territory, UNRWA, the agency for Palestine refugees, also provides a range of crucial services. In Gaza, the year-long war has severely threatened the delivery of these crucial services....

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...

War in Ukraine: Live updates from the Security Council and the field

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·October 31, 2024·1 min read

The UN Security Council met in emergency session on Ukraine on Wednesday amid unconfirmed reports that troops from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) – more commonly known as North Korea – are deploying to fight alongside Russia. We followed the meeting as well as developments at UN Headquarters...

Sudan’s ‘living nightmare’ continues as 11 million flee war, mass killings

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·October 29, 2024·2 min read

“The situation in Sudan is catastrophic. There is simply no other way to put it. Hunger disease and sexual violence are rampant. For the people of Sudan, this is a living nightmare,” warned Amy Pope, Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The conflict, which erupted in April...

Percentage of women killed in war doubled in 2023: UN report

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·October 24, 2024·2 min read

The findings come in the Secretary-General’s latest annual report on women, peace, and security. The rise in death and violence is “taking place against a backdrop of increasing blatant disregard of international law designed to protect women and children during war,” according to UN Women, the lead agency on the...