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Ukraine: Civilians under fire in record numbers as attacks surge

·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...

Middle East crisis: Gaza polio vaccine campaign under fire

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·November 3, 2024·6 min read

Gaza: Health teams under attack The northern Gaza polio vaccine campaign began Saturday and is scheduled to continue through Monday, with UN agencies and partners fanning out across the ravaged north during agreed upon humanitarian pauses to ensure safety for civilians and aid workers. The goal is to reach more...

Freedom of expression also under fire in Gaza war, rights expert says

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·October 20, 2024·4 min read

“Rarely have we seen – and this is what bothers me – extensive patterns of unlawful, discriminatory and disproportionate restriction by States and private actors on freedom of expression,” said Irene Khan, the UN Special Rapporteur mandated to promote and protect this right globally. Ms. Khan briefed journalists at UN...

Israeli forces fire on UN peacekeepers in Lebanon

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·October 11, 2024·1 min read

“UNIFIL’s Naqoura headquarters and nearby positions have been repeatedly hit,” the UN mission said in a statement. “This morning, two peacekeepers were injured after an IDF Merkava tank fired its weapon toward an observation tower at UNIFIL’s headquarters in Naqoura, directly hitting it and causing them to fall. “The injuries...

China is committed to dialogue, ‘not throwing gas on the fire’, Foreign Minister Wang says

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·September 29, 2024·2 min read

To that end, China, jointly with Brazil and other countries of the Global South, launched a Group of Friends for Peace, he said in his address the UN General Assembly. “Its very purpose is to uphold the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, build consensus for a political settlement...

Over 700 a day dying from small arms fire; main ‘weapons of choice’ for criminals and terrorists

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·December 16, 2023·1 min read

That’s according to Izumi Nakamitsu, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, who briefed the Security Council on Friday, quoting the latest figures available. “This is more than 700 people a day, or one person dying from small arms every two minutes”, she said. She added that “small arms and light weapons...

World News in Brief: Sudan and South Sudan updates, Ukraine heritage under fire in Odesa

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·November 7, 2023·3 min read

With the civil war between rival militaries now in its 200th day, children “continue to pay the highest price for a crisis not of their making – increasingly with their own lives”, said the agency in a statement. There are more children now displaced there than anywhere in the world,...

Mexico: Guterres calls for ‘thorough investigation’ into deadly migrant centre fire

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·March 29, 2023·1 min read

The blaze at the migrant centre which was reportedly run by Mexico’s National Migration Institute in Ciudad Juarez, began during a protest against imminent deportations on Monday night, according to local officials. There were 68 adult men in total staying at the facility, the Institute reported. News reports said that...

South African peacekeeper killed after helicopter comes under fire mid-flight in DR Congo

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·February 6, 2023·2 min read

In a statement issued by his Spokesperson, UN Secretary-General António Guterres strongly condemned the attack, which left the South African ‘blue helmet’ dead, and another wounded. Emergency landing According to news reports, the severely injured peacekeeper was able to continue flying, and along with the rest of the crew, managed to land...

Overnight blasts near Ukraine nuclear plant are ‘playing with fire!’ – UN nuclear chief |

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·November 21, 2022·1 min read

In a statement issued by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said that that blasts yesterday evening and again this morning further underlined “the urgent need for measures to help prevent a nuclear accident there”. “As I have said many times before, you’re playing with...