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‘A war of atrocities’ – UN human rights investigators warn Sudanese civilians are paying the highest price

·September 6, 2025·2 min read

“They burned everything,” said one witness of a shelling attack in the Zamzam displacement camp in war-torn Darfur. “They claimed they only wanted to fight soldiers, but they punished the whole community.” The war crimes and human rights violations perpetrated by all parties to the conflict between the military government...

‘Only hunger and bombs’ for besieged civilians in Sudan’s El Fasher

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·August 13, 2025·2 min read

At least 57 civilians were killed in the attack, which included the Abu Shouk displacement camp on the outskirts of the city, and UN human rights office, OHCHR, is also following up on allegations of summary executions there. “It is with dismay that we yet again witness an unimaginable...

Sudan: You can run – but we will find you, militias warn terrified civilians

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·August 9, 2025·4 min read

“People told me multiple times that when they were fleeing from Zamzam [displacement camp], armed people would threaten them while they were in flight, saying sure, ‘Flee, go to that place, run here, run there, we will follow you, we will find you’,” said Jocelyn Elizabeth Knight, a Protection Officer...

Gaza Strip: Humanitarians warn of worsening famine conditions, attacks on civilians

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·July 31, 2025·2 min read

Of the 154 malnutrition-related deaths since October 2023 (including 89 children) reported by Gazan health authorities, the World Health Organization (WHO) said 63 occurred in July alone. These deaths follow a steep drop in food consumption: 81 per cent of households reported poor food consumption in July (up from 33...

UN rights chief condemns recent killing of scores of civilians in Sudan

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·July 18, 2025·2 min read

Since 10 July, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, has verified that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have killed at least 60 civilians in North Kordofan’s Bara locality, while civil society groups have reported that up to 300 were killed. The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) also hit two villages in...

UN urges de-escalation, protection of civilians as conflict roils Syria

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·July 16, 2025·2 min read

On Sunday, violence erupted between Sunni Bedouin tribal fighters and Druze militias in Sweida, two days after a Druze merchant was abducted on the highway to Damascus. The casualty figures are unclear according to local reports, but the death toll is at least 30, and hundreds have been injured. ...

Ukraine: Civilians under fire in record numbers as attacks surge

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·July 15, 2025·2 min read

According to the UN human rights office, OHCHR, at least 139 civilians have been killed and 791 injured so far in July alone. “The devastating physical and psychological impact on civilians of repeated attacks in this and other conflicts cannot be captured by numbers alone,” said OHCHR spokesperson Liz Throssell on...

UN chief ‘appalled’ by worsening Gaza crisis as civilians face displacement, aid blockades

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·July 3, 2025·1 min read

Multiple attacks in recent days have killed and injured scores of Palestinians at sites hosting displaced people and others attempting to access essential supplies, according to a statement from UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric on Thursday. “The Secretary-General strongly condemns the loss of civilian life,” Mr. Dujarric said. On just one...

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...

Civilians ‘trapped and terrorised’: UN sounds alarm over collapse of critical protections

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·May 26, 2025·3 min read

Speaking at a high-level open debate in the Security Council on protection of civilians in armed conflict on Thursday, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher described a grim picture of accelerating harm, disintegrating norms and growing impunity. “The scaffolding built last century to protect us from inhumanity is crumbling,” he...

SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: Ambassadors debate safety of civilians with 36,000 lives lost during conflict last year

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·May 22, 2025·1 min read

We’re live as the Security Council convenes for its annual open debate on the protection of civilians in armed conflict, with the UN relief chief and the head of UN Women calling for urgent action to safeguard lives – especially those of women and girls caught in the crossfire. Non-combatants in...

World News in Brief: Terror-crime link alarm, child detention in Australia, judiciary in Maldives, Protection of Civilians Week

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·May 20, 2025·4 min read

In recent years, criminal and terrorist groups have seized “every” opportunity afforded by growing instability to “entrench, expand, and escalate,” said Ghada Waly, in her opening remarks to the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, in Vienna. Challenges such as human and drug trafficking, smuggling of cultural and commercial...