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Mass displacement, trafficking fears deepen crisis in Sudan’s El Fasher

·November 28, 2025·2 min read

UN agencies say conditions are deteriorating further across North Darfur and neighbouring Kordofan, while independent human rights experts on Thursday warned that the collapse of protection following the city’s fall has sharply increased the risks facing women and children. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized control of El Fasher –...

A decisive turning point: Setting global industry on a fairer, greener path towards economic growth

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·November 27, 2025·2 min read

The world is inexorably becoming industrialised, raising the prospects of better jobs and livelihoods for many of the world’s poorest. But, in order to truly benefit the global population and the planet as a whole, international trade and industry must go hand in hand with healthier communities, lower emissions and...

Aid access and hospital operations remain constrained in Gaza

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·November 27, 2025·1 min read

Briefing reporters in New York on Wednesday, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said hostilities in parts of the Gaza Strip are still resulting in casualties and repeated disruptions to humanitarian operations. On Tuesday, the UN and its partners coordinated eight planned humanitarian movements inside Gaza with Israeli authorities. Of those, only...

Peacebuilding Fund hits $1 billion milestone amid funding gap

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·November 27, 2025·1 min read

The multi-donor trust fund is the UN’s primary instrument for supporting countries worldwide who are emerging from – or at risk of – violent conflict. The fund sits alongside the Peacebuilding Commission and the Peacebuilding Support Office. The announcement came as the Security Council and the General Assembly passed twin...

Defying the odds: Young entrepreneurs vow to take their chances and build the industries of tomorrow

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·November 27, 2025·2 min read

With a 90 per cent failure rate for startups, you could forgive young people if they concluded that founding a company, particularly at such a turbulent time for the global economy, would be too risky an option. “But there’s a 10 per cent chance of improving people’s lives,” retorts business...

Ukraine’s children enter fourth school year under invasion as 4.6 million face education barriers

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·November 26, 2025·1 min read

Since Russian forces invaded Ukraine in 2022, children have continued to bear the brunt of the crisis – unable to attend school regularly, learn safely or experience a sense of normalcy. Air raid alarms disrupt classes. Many schools, especially in frontline areas, remain closed because of hostilities or the lack...

Somalia declares drought emergency as millions face hunger after failed rains

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·November 26, 2025·1 min read

On 10 November, the Federal Government of Somalia formally declared a drought emergency and appealed for urgent international assistance as conditions continued to deteriorate across northern, central and southern regions, according to the UN relief coordination office, OCHA. Puntland is among the worst affected areas, where authorities estimate that nearly...

Despite ongoing discrimination, women entrepreneurs are reshaping the Global South, with crucial support from the UN

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·November 26, 2025·3 min read

As a young mother in a remote part of eastern Kenya, Norah Magero struggled to get her child reliable health care. “We faced lots of blackouts, and it was always a race against time to get her vaccinated.” Safely storing and transporting heat-sensitive medical products like vaccines, blood for transfusion...

Violence against women: UN sheds light on global femicide crisis, digital abuse

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·November 26, 2025·1 min read

One day, the anonymous interaction turned into physical stalking. He texted her exactly what she was wearing. “There is a specific terror in being watched by someone without a face,” Ms. Tesfai told UN officials, Goodwill Ambassadors and civil society representatives in New York commemorating the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women....

Gaza facing worst economic collapse ever recorded, UN trade agency warns

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·November 25, 2025·3 min read

Speaking at the launch of UNCTAD’s 2025 Report on the Economy of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the agency’s Deputy Secretary-General Pedro Manuel Moreno said decades of movement restrictions, combined with the latest military operations, had “wiped out decades of progress” and left both Gaza and the West Bank facing long-term...

Gaza women are ‘last line of protection’ for their families amid attacks, hunger and harsh winter

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·November 25, 2025·2 min read

UN Women’s Chief of Humanitarian Action Sofia Calltorp, who just returned from a visit to the enclave last week, said that women there repeatedly told her “there may be a cease-fire, but the war is not over”. “The attacks are fewer, but the killings continue,” she said. The UN aid...

AI and anonymity fuel surge in digital violence against women

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·November 25, 2025·3 min read

Fuelled by artificial intelligence, anonymity, and weak accountability, online abuse is rapidly escalating. Yet, 1.8 billion women and girls still lack legal protection from online harassment and other forms of technology-facilitated abuse. The alarm is being sounded this week by the UN agency for women’s rights, gender equality and women’s...