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Fleeing the frontline in Ukraine

·November 21, 2025·3 min read

In the past year alone, more than 250,000 residents have left the Donetsk region, a focus of Russian attacks in southeastern Ukraine, close to their shared border. Evacuations are also ongoing in neighboring Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Sumy, and Zaporizhzhia. The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, is supporting both evacuees and those who...

Defending truth-tellers, from war zones to the digital frontline

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·November 2, 2025·2 min read

Marking Sunday’s International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists, the United Nations is calling for justice for those silenced, and protection for those still speaking truth to power – whether in conflict zones or in the online spaces where abuse is spreading fast. “Media professionals around the globe...

‘Our work is largely invisible’: Journey from outer space to frontline aid worker

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·August 19, 2025·6 min read

Ahead of donning a beige WFP vest and boots to face hurricanes, wars and refugee camps, the Portuguese scientist worked with satellite imagery and cartography, creating maps to support humanitarian missions, until he realised he didn’t want to stay behind a computer screen. On the occasion of World Humanitarian Day,...

Frontline Ukrainian families face perilous task of farming mined fields

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·June 2, 2025·2 min read

According to the UN, many frontline Ukrainian families are at risk of missing critical planting and harvesting windows. “Agriculture is a fabric of rural society. It’s not just a way to make a living – it’s a way of being. And vulnerable rural families are holding on. They need support...

Journalists being forgotten on the frontline, warns injured war reporter

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·May 19, 2025·2 min read

“I believe in nothing right now. Our press vests are turning us into targets and it’s becoming a death sentence for us,” Christina Assi told UN News. On 13 October 2023, Ms. Assi – who was working as a photojournalist for Agence France Presse (AFP) – lost her right leg...

Ukraine: Continued Russian assaults drive civilians from frontline communities

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·April 26, 2025·2 min read

“Attacks on frontline regions (are) increasing and it’s always civilians that are bearing the highest cost of the war,” said UNHCR Representative Karolina Lindholm Billing. Since January, more than 3,500 newly displaced people have transited through a centre in Pavlohrad towards central Ukraine; in total, more than 200,000 people have been evacuated...

Ukrainians continue flee the frontline, as war stretches into fourth year

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·March 2, 2025·2 min read

“In the last six months alone, more than 200,000 people have been evacuated from frontline areas in the east and north,” said Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees on the three-year anniversary of the war on Monday 24 February. Mr. Grandi added that, since the start of the...

WHO highlights mental health crisis facing Israel’s frontline workers a year after 7 October attack

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·October 7, 2024·3 min read

Responders including ambulance drivers, health workers and forensic teams who identified many of the dead, all witnessed “carnage and horror” which resulted in lasting trauma. An organization named Mashiv Ha’Ruach, which means “Bringing back the spirit”, provided mental health and psychosocial support through workshop retreats supported by WHO/Europe. These sessions...

World News in Brief: Aid trucks on Ukraine frontline, Africa schools close due to insecurity, Georgia rights defenders

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·September 9, 2024·3 min read

There are still nearly 2,000 people living in the town of Beryslav, including more than 70 children and 90 people who have only limited mobility. “Despite constant shelling, they have not evacuated the area, which has no electricity, which has no gas and which has no water, all due to...

From the Field: UN human rights officers on the frontline in Somalia

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·June 12, 2023·1 min read

Every day, UN human rights officers are on the frontlines to support them. They are part of the UN’s field work, talking to those most affected by conflict and monitoring how human rights principles and international humanitarian law obligations are being respected in situations of conflict and insecurity; like in...

Ukraine: UN aid trucks reach frontline town of Chasiv Yar

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·March 12, 2023·2 min read

The UN aid coordination office, OCHA, said the humanitarian supplies had been off-loaded in Chasiv Yar, which is some 10 kilometres to the west of Bakhmut, which Russian forces are attempting to wrest control from Ukrainian troops. After months of fighting, the mercenary Wagner Group now claims to be in...