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Violence against women: UN sheds light on global femicide crisis, digital abuse

·November 26, 2025·1 min read

One day, the anonymous interaction turned into physical stalking. He texted her exactly what she was wearing. “There is a specific terror in being watched by someone without a face,” Ms. Tesfai told UN officials, Goodwill Ambassadors and civil society representatives in New York commemorating the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women....

AI and anonymity fuel surge in digital violence against women

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·November 25, 2025·3 min read

Fuelled by artificial intelligence, anonymity, and weak accountability, online abuse is rapidly escalating. Yet, 1.8 billion women and girls still lack legal protection from online harassment and other forms of technology-facilitated abuse. The alarm is being sounded this week by the UN agency for women’s rights, gender equality and women’s...

Ending violence against women ‘a matter of dignity, equality and human rights’

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·November 20, 2025·2 min read

Instead, she found herself tied to a man who “changed from being kind to being a monster.” He would beat her “with his bare hands,” she said recently. The young mother from Yemen is among the roughly 840 million women worldwide – nearly one in three – who have faced...

Guterres voices alarm over post-election violence in Tanzania

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·November 3, 2025·1 min read

In a statement issued by his Spokesperson, Secretary-General António Guterres deplored the loss of life and extended his condolences to the families of the victims. The Secretary-General called for “a thorough and impartial investigation into all allegations of excessive use of force,” urging Tanzanian authorities to uphold accountability and transparency...

‘Repeated bouts of violence’ put Syria rebuilding at risk: Independent rights investigator

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·October 31, 2025·3 min read

In December 2024, the Bashar Al-Assad regime was toppled by a coalition of opposition groups, led by the Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham militia, leading to a widespread outpouring of relief that the civil war, lasting over decade, had come to an end – signalling the return of over a million Syrian...

‘Horrific’ violence as thousands flee Sudan’s El Fasher

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·October 29, 2025·2 min read

Senior UN refugee agency (UNHCR) official in Sudan, Jacqueline Wilma Parlevliet, said there had been “significant outflow out of El Fasher into Tawila” – around 60 kilometres west of the city – which is already hosting around 650,000 displaced. New arrivals have recounted stories of widespread ethnically and politically motivated...

UN rights office sounds alarm over ‘skyrocketing’ Israeli settler violence during olive harvest

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·October 22, 2025·1 min read

Ajith Sunghay said on Tuesday that “settler violence has skyrocketed in scale and frequency, with the acquiescence, support, and in many cases participation, of Israeli security forces – and always with impunity.” In the first half of 2025 alone, there were 757 settler attacks causing casualties or property damage —...

Political crisis and corruption fuelling violence in South Sudan, UN rights body says

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·October 14, 2025·3 min read

The Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan issued the warning at the conclusion of a mission to the Africa Union (AU) headquarters in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa. South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in July 2011, but deadly fighting broke out in late 2013 between troops loyal to President...

Increasing violence and funding cuts imperil millions across Haiti

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·October 2, 2025·2 min read

Haiti faces one of the world’s most severe food crises that is only worsening due to steep funding cuts to WFP relief programmes. “We urge international partners to step up to enable WFP and partners to provide not only life-saving emergency assistance, but also to invest in programmes addressing the...

UN rights chief denounces ‘glorification of violence’ and attack on rule of law

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·September 9, 2025·4 min read

“No one is safe when human rights are under attack,” Mr. Türk told the Human Rights Council, warning that the rules of war “are being shredded”. “Some States are becoming an extension of their ruler’s personal power,” he insisted. In his customary address to the UN’s top rights forum at...

DR Congo crisis: Funding cuts curtail assistance to victims of sexual violence

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·September 6, 2025·4 min read

The dramatic liquidity crisis currently impacting the UN and its global partners has already prevented a high-level human rights probe into the DRC emergency created in February from getting underway. According to testimonies gathered by OHCHR investigators into widespread violence in DRC’s North and South Kivu since January, members of the...

World News in Brief: Afghanistan quake latest, sexual violence in Haiti, WHO medicines update, deadly floods in Pakistan

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·September 6, 2025·3 min read

The UN aid coordination office, OCHA, has released $10 million in response to the urgent need for food, water, shelter and other lifesaving provisions following this week’s devastating earthquakes and aftershocks in Afghanistan. “This is the latest crisis to expose the cost of shrinking resources on vital humanitarian work,” said...