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Looming hunger emergency for South Sudanese families fleeing war

·October 3, 2023·1 min read

Nearly 300,000 people have arrived in South Sudan since the conflict began across the border in mid-April, most of whom are returnees.  Among them, one in five children is malnourished and 90 per cent of families are experiencing moderate or severe food insecurity. Screening data from the border crossing also revealed...

‘The world cannot afford Cold War 2.0,’ Pakistan leader tells UN Assembly

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·September 23, 2023·2 min read

Addressing the Assembly’s annual general debate, Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar, said, “the world cannot afford Cold War 2.0,” because there are a raft of challenges facing humankind that can only be addressed through global cooperation. Multiple shocks Indeed, a series of external “shocks” – COVID-19, climate change and conflict – have devastated...

War in Sudan: ‘Brutal fight’ must end as civilian suffering intensifies

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·September 21, 2023·2 min read

Rosemary DiCarlo called on the national army and so-called Rapid Support Forces to lay down their arms, more than five months after they began facing off in the streets of Khartoum. She told a high level ministerial event on The Cost of Inaction in Sudan taking place at UN Headquarters...

War crimes intensifying: Myanmar human rights investigators

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·September 12, 2023·2 min read

“The frequency and intensity of war crimes and crimes against humanity has only increased in recent months,” said Nicholas Koumjian, head of the investigation team, formally known as the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM). ‘Brazen bombings’ Addressing the forum in Geneva, he described even “more brazen aerial bombings and indiscriminate...

‘Immense challenges’ block justice for Ukrainian war victims, rights experts warn

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·September 5, 2023·2 min read

Speaking in Kyiv, Commission Chair Erik Møse pointed to continuing patterns of violations by Russian armed forces, including wilful killings, unlawful confinement, torture, rape, and illegal deportations, many of which qualify as war crimes. According to the Commission, the Ukrainian legal system faced “immense challenges” to provide accountability and justice...

Ukraine: Widespread learning loss continues due to war, COVID-19

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·August 29, 2023·2 min read

“Inside Ukraine, attacks on schools have continued unabated, leaving children deeply distressed and without safe spaces to learn”, declared Regina De Dominicis, UNICEF Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia, who recently returned from the country. “Not only has this left Ukraine’s children struggling to progress in their education, but...

Sudan: ‘lost generation’ of children amid war, hunger, disease: UN humanitarians

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·August 26, 2023·2 min read

Mr. Griffiths said that the conflict spelled trauma for Sudan’s youth and cited “deeply disturbing” reports that some children were being used in the fighting.  He also warned that hundreds of thousands of children in the country were severely malnourished and “at imminent risk of death” if left untreated. Those...

Security Council hears of ‘unimaginable suffering’ of Ukrainian people, 18 months into war

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·August 25, 2023·2 min read

Rosemary DiCarlo, UN Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, was briefing a meeting of the Security Council, which also coincided with the 32nd anniversary of Ukraine’s independence. “I would like to congratulate the Ukrainian people today and take this occasion to stress, once again, that the UN’s commitment to Ukraine’s...

More than two million children displaced by Sudan war: UNICEF

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·August 25, 2023·2 min read

Fighting between the Sudanese Army and military rival the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which erupted in April, has displaced 1.7 million children within the country while more than 470,000 have fled across the border to safety. Urgent response needed Given these numbers, and that countless more children are trapped by the violence, “the...

Negotiated solution only way to end Sudan war: senior UN official

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·August 10, 2023·2 min read

“There needs to be a negotiated solution to end this war as soon as possible. There is no other alternative,” said Martha Pobee, the UN Assistant Secretary-General for Africa, whose portfolio covers both political and peacebuilding affairs. “The longer this war continues, the greater the risk of fragmentation, and foreign...

‘Increasingly brazen’ war crimes evident in Myanmar, reports Independent Mechanism

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·August 8, 2023·1 min read

These include indiscriminate attacks on civilians from aerial bombing, mass executions of civilians and detained combatants, and large-scale and intentional burning of civilian homes and buildings, resulting in the destruction of entire villages in some cases, the Mechanism said in a news release. “Every loss of life in Myanmar is...

UN pushes disarmament talks amid fears that drums of nuclear war are beating again

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·August 6, 2023·3 min read

In a message to mark the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Mr. Guterres urged the international community to learn from the “nuclear cataclysm” that befell the Japanese city on 6 August 1945. “The drums of nuclear war are beating once again; mistrust and division are on the...