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Remembering the Holocaust: ‘You are here because you choose hope over hate’

·January 28, 2026·3 min read

In his 10th Holocaust Remembrance Day address, Secretary-General António Guterres told survivors and their families gathered in the General Assembly Hall that honouring the dead “and the fight against the ancient poison of antisemitism – is not abstract, but personal”. Every year on the day the concentration camps were liberated...

‘Do not give up on children’: Displaced by violence, a Haitian girl finds hope at school

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·January 3, 2026·4 min read

A teenage Haitian girl who was forced to flee her home in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, due to gang violence has urged adults not to “give up on children.” Thirteen-year-old Dieussika was living peacefully with her family before armed violence and insecurity forced them to flee. “We had to leave our...

Amid Sudan’s unimaginable crisis, its people endure with hope

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·December 5, 2025·5 min read

Fighting erupted between rival militaries in April 2023 following a breakdown in the transition to civilian rule, following the overthrow of longtime former President Omar al-Bashir four years earlier. The army of Sudan’s military government has been battling the formerly allied fighters of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia for...

Syria: Hope emerges amid ongoing human rights challenges

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·December 4, 2025·4 min read

Coinciding with the anniversary of the collapse of the former regime, “things are improving,” Mohammad Al Nsour, Chief of the Middle East and North Africa Section at OHCHR told UN News. “Every time we go to Damascus, we can see the change.” OHCHR – blocked from operating inside Syria for...

‘A language everyone understands’: Jordanian cartoonist on art as hope

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·November 28, 2025·4 min read

Based in the capital of Jordan, Abdallat has spent years using art to spark conversations on human rights, tolerance and social change. Through his Free Pen initiative, he leads workshops with young people, especially in communities affected by displacement, helping them express their experiences and hopes through drawing. From collaborations...

Decade of slowing deforestation offers hope for forests

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·October 21, 2025·2 min read

Nearly 500 million hectares (ha) – equivalent to around 750 million football pitches – have been lost since 1990. Deforestation has slowed down in every region of the world in the past decade however, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Deforestation refers to the loss of forest...

World News in Brief: Airstrikes in Lebanon, hope in CAR, a call to ban lead-based paints

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·October 18, 2025·2 min read

UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told correspondents on Friday at the daily briefing this includes mortar shells and damaged rockets. Since the latest cessation of hostilities between Lebanon and Israel in November 2024, the UN peacekeeping mission (UNIFIL) has enhanced efforts to support the Lebanese Armed Forces in addressing unauthorised weapons...

DR Congo: UN envoy urges people eager for peace in the east ‘not to lose hope’

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·October 5, 2025·3 min read

Bintou Keita issued the message in an exclusive interview with UN News just a few days after briefing the Security Council on the situation in eastern DRC, expressing “compassion and empathy” for the long-suffering population. “We know that it is very difficult, and it is a daily difficulty,” she said,...

Sudan: As children continue to suffer, school remains a distant hope

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·September 12, 2025·3 min read

After more than two years of civil war, more than 25 million people are now acutely hungry and at least 20 million require health services urgently. The UN World Food Programme (WFP) also warned that displaced families in some areas have not received any aid for three months, as it announced...

1.3 million Sudanese return home, offering fragile hope for recovery

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·July 25, 2025·2 min read

“The thousands of people seeking to return home are driven by hope, resilience and an enduring connection to their country,” said Othman Belbeisi, regional director of the International Organization of Migration (IOM). While this development does offer hope, many of these people are returning to states and cities whose...

Yemen deserves hope and dignity, Security Council hears

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·July 10, 2025·2 min read

For over a decade, Yemen has endured conflict between Houthi rebels and government forces. Millions of lives and livelihoods remain at risk, and the conflict shows no sign of ending. “The appetite for a military escalation remains,” Hans Grundberg, UN Special Envoy for Yemen, told ambassadors. While violence remains an...

With sustainable development under threat, Sevilla summit rekindles hope and unity

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·July 4, 2025·2 min read

“The human consequences of rising debt burdens, escalating trade tensions and steep cuts to official development assistance have been brought into sharp relief this week,” she told the closing session of the pivotal gathering, amid sizzling temperatures across southern Spain. Multilateralism at work But against that backdrop, the conference has...