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UN calls for restraint after deadly Kenya protests

·June 26, 2025·1 min read

At least 400 people were injured, including police officers, according to media reports. The official death toll has not been confirmed, with estimates ranging from eight to 16. The demonstrations marked the anniversary of last year’s anti-tax protests, when 60 people were reportedly killed and dozens abducted by police. This...

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...

From Syria, UN refugee chief calls for greater solidarity with displaced people

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·June 21, 2025·1 min read

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, sounded the alarm on Friday, World Refugee Day, in a message from Syria. He said the abject failure to end conflicts – including in Sudan, Ukraine, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Gaza – continues to create immense suffering. Difficulty seeking...

UN relief chief calls for solidarity, with humanitarians ‘literally under attack’

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·June 19, 2025·2 min read

Tom Fletcher was speaking at the annual stock-take of his sector known as the ECOSOC Humanitarian Affairs Segment, which brings together UN Member States and organizations, humanitarian and development partners, as well as the private sector and affected communities. He said this year’s theme – renew global solidarity for humanity...

Guterres calls for an end to ocean ‘plunder’ as UN summit opens in France

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·June 9, 2025·7 min read

“The ocean is the ultimate shared resource,” he told delegates gathered at the port of Nice. “But we are failing it.” Oceans, he warned, are absorbing 90 per cent of the excess heat from greenhouse gas emissions and buckling under the strain: overfishing, rising temperatures, plastic pollution, acidification. Coral reefs...

‘Justice is long overdue’: Guterres calls for reparations for enslavement and colonialism

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·May 31, 2025·2 min read

“Africa is a continent of boundless energy and possibility. But for too long, the colossal injustices inflicted by enslavement, the transatlantic slave trade and colonialism have been left unacknowledged and unaddressed,” he said. The United Nations has repeatedly said that slavery and the transatlantic slave trade constituted crimes against humanity,...

Gaza: Top UN envoy calls on Israel to end devastating strikes, starvation of civilians

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·May 29, 2025·7 min read

Sigrid Kaag, interim UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, said that the man-made crisis unfolding in Gaza has plunged civilians into “an abyss.” “Since the collapse of the ceasefire in March, civilians have constantly come under fire, confined to ever-shrinking spaces, and deprived of lifesaving relief,” she...

UN rights chief calls for end to daily killings in Ukraine after deadly weekend attacks

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·May 27, 2025·1 min read

The majority of those killed and injured were in major cities such as Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Mykolaiv, or in populated areas in other regions. Meanwhile, large numbers of long-range drones launched into Russia by Ukrainian armed forces injured at least 11 civilians over the weekend, according to Russian authorities. Silence...

Guterres calls on Israel to accept UN’s ‘detailed, principled’ aid plan for Gaza

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·May 24, 2025·2 min read

Addressing reporters outside the Security Council, António Guterres called once again for a permanent ceasefire to end the fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas militants, the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages and full humanitarian access so aid can flow in following nearly 80 days of Israeli blockade. ‘Cruellest...

UN rights chief calls on South Sudan’s warring parties to end renewed fighting

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·May 23, 2025·1 min read

At least 75 civilians have been killed in hostilities between the national army (SSPDF) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army-In Opposition (SPLA-IO) – which is both a political party and militia group loyal to First Vice President Riek Machar – and their respective allied armed groups, said UN human rights...

‘Politically unacceptable, morally repugnant’: UN chief calls for global ban on ‘killer robots’

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·May 14, 2025·2 min read

“There is no place for lethal autonomous weapon systems in our world,” Mr. Guterres said on Monday, during an informal UN meeting in New York focused on the use and impact of such weapons. “Machines that have the power and discretion to take human lives without human control should be...

UNFPA calls on US to reconsider ban on future funding

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·May 11, 2025·1 min read

In a statement, UNFPA said the move – which invokes a 1985 legal provision known as the Kemp-Kasten Amendment – is based on “unfounded claims” about the agency’s work in China. These allegations, it noted, have “long been disproven”, including by the US Government itself. The Kemp-Kasten amendment states that...