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For too long, ‘unbound horrors’ have unfolded in Sudan

·June 20, 2025·1 min read

Since civil war erupted in April 2023 between the generals of the national army and their former allies-turned rivals, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia, vast areas of the country have been left in ruins. The conflict has fuelled the world’s largest displacement crisis, with more than 12 million people forcibly...

‘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,...

‘Is this just a long, beautiful dream?’: Syrian filmmaker Waad Al-Kateab on her country’s future

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·March 15, 2025·7 min read

After 14 years of war, Syria has entered a new and uncertain chapter. The country is devastated – 90 per cent of Syrians live in poverty. Despite the challenges up to one million people living in camps and displacement sites across the country’s northwest intend to return home within the...

WHO: ‘Long COVID’ may obstruct return to normal life for 36 million Europeans

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·June 29, 2023·2 min read

This summer will be “the first in more than three years that many of us will enjoy without the looming threat of COVID-19”, but the life-threatening virus has not gone away completely, WHO’s regional director for Europe, Hans Kluge, told reporters at a virtual press conference from Copenhagen. Each week, the...

Quake latest: Aid convoys will keep crossing into Syria ‘for as long as needs are there’

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·February 17, 2023·4 min read

Since 9 February, 143 trucks have passed through the Bab al-Hawa and Bab al-Salam border crossings, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). “The movements continue today, they continue over the weekend and will continue every day for as long as the needs are there,” OCHA spokesperson...

Moldova: The long and winding road to safety

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·February 4, 2023·5 min read

Tucked away in the southeastern corner of Europe, Moldova’s winters may be drab and harsh, but the road from Ukraine’s border spools out through bare, brown hills like a ribbon of hope. To Larysa, who came from the Donetsk region of Ukraine, the silent heath means safety. It means a...

Indonesia: President’s apology for past rights violations a ‘step on the long road to justice’

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·January 13, 2023·1 min read

President Joko Widodo reportedly acknowledged “gross human rights violations” during his country’s past, and expressed regret for a dozen past incidents, stretching back more than 50 years. These included the 1965-1966 anti-Communist crackdown, the 1982-1985 protester shootings, enforced disappearances in 1997 and 1998, and the Wamena Incident in Papua in...