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Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny

·June 21, 2025·3 min read

With more than 5.5 billion people connected online – nearly all of them active on social media – digital platforms have become central to how people interact, UN Women highlights. However, they are also being weaponised to spread misogyny and hate. Once confined to fringe internet forums, the manosphere now...

Songs of hope rise from Gaza’s ruins

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·May 31, 2025·2 min read

Among them is Ahmed Abu Amsha, a music teacher who has become something of a humanitarian troubadour. Fleeting moments of joy Living in a worn tent with his family, he refuses to let despair drown out hope. Instead, he teaches music to displaced children, helping them find moments of joy...

Exponential rise in synthetic drug production and trafficking in the Golden Triangle

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·May 28, 2025·1 min read

According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the production and trafficking of methamphetamine – an illegal synthetic stimulant – have risen sharply since 2021, particularly in Myanmar’s Shan State. UNODC emphasised that both the scale of production and the flow of trafficking in Shan State have “significantly”...

Another year, another rise in food insecurity – including famine

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·May 16, 2025·3 min read

It is the first time since 2017 that a famine has been declared anywhere on Earth. In the 20 months since the war between rival militaries erupted, 13 million Sudanese have been forcibly displaced and over 30.4 million are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance, according to UN estimates. The inhabitants...

Rise in violence against civilians in South Sudan

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·April 18, 2025·2 min read

The finding comes in its latest brief on violence against civilians, which also reveals a similar rise in incidents of conflict-related sexual violence (CSRV). Sources include victims and eyewitness accounts, as well as reports from secondary sources identified during field missions, service providers and protection partners. Killings, abductions and other horrors...

UN rights chief decries substantial rise in death penalty executions

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·February 26, 2025·2 min read

“While a number of countries argue that it lies within their national sovereignty, from my perspective, it is incompatible with human dignity and the right to life,” the High Commissioner told Member States, during a discussion about the contribution of judiciaries to advancing human rights over the issue. The punishment had...

Breast cancer cases projected to rise by nearly 40 per cent by 2050, WHO warns

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·February 25, 2025·1 min read

The findings, published in Nature Medicine on Monday, warn that if current trends continue, the world will see 3.2 million new breast cancer cases and 1.1 million related deaths each year by mid-century. The burden will be disproportionately felt in low- and middle-income countries, where access to early detection, treatment...

Sudan: UN chief condemns reported executions as starvation risks rise

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·February 4, 2025·1 min read

Many of the victims are believed to be from the Darfur and Kordofan regions. “The Secretary-General reminds all warring parties in Sudan of their obligations under international law, especially in relation to the protection of civilians and civilian infrastructure,” said his Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric, briefing correspondents in New York. “Sudanese women, Sudanese children...

Sudan war becomes more deadly as ethnically motivated attacks rise

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·January 17, 2025·2 min read

His warning comes in the wake of reports that dozens were brutally killed in ethnically targeted attacks in Al Jazirah state in the southeast, and amid reports of an imminent battle for control of the country’s capital, Khartoum. The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and a rival military, the Rapid Support...

Recruitment of child soldiers is on the rise, despite global commitments

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·January 2, 2025·1 min read

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child was hailed as a historic agreement when it was adopted by world leaders in 1989, and it has inspired governments to pass laws protecting children from violence and exploitation. Around a decade later, a protocol prohibiting the recruitment and use as...

Rise in Afghan opium cultivation reflects economic hardship, despite Taliban ban

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·November 6, 2024·1 min read

The rebound follows a massive 95 per cent decrease in 2023, when the ban nearly eliminated poppy production nationwide, leading to a severe decline in Afghanistan’s opium output. However, while cultivation has increased, the current levels remain substantially lower than in 2022, which saw 232,000 hectares under poppy cultivation. UNODC...

Over 2 billion in cities will be exposed to 0.5ºC rise by 2040

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·November 6, 2024·2 min read

“Almost no urban resident will be unaffected, with billions of people subjected to hotter temperatures or exposed to the risks of flooding and other threats,” said Anacláudia Rossbach, Executive Director of UN-Habitat. The report also highlights a significant funding gap for resilient urban infrastructure. Cities overall need an estimated $4.5...