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Communities struggle to rebuild following Pakistan’s worst floods

·December 7, 2025·2 min read

As communities struggle to rebuild, many have little time to grieve the immense losses they have suffered. Since June, over six million people in Pakistan have been affected by what have been described as “unusually heavy monsoon rains” which have claimed nearly 1,000 lives, including about 250 children. Residents...

Cyclone Ditwah brings worst flooding in decades to Sri Lanka, killing hundreds

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·December 1, 2025·3 min read

According to the UN relief coordination office, OCHA, 998,918 people across all 25 districts have now been affected, with 212 deaths reported and 218 people missing. More than 180,000 people from over 51,000 families are sheltering in 1,094 government-run safety centres as search and rescue efforts continue. Cyclone Ditwah made...

Global HIV response facing worst setback in decades, UNAIDS warns

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·November 30, 2025·3 min read

Launching its 2025 World AIDS Day report, Overcoming Disruption, Transforming the AIDS Response, UNAIDS said international assistance has sharply declined, with OECD projections showing external health funding could fall by 30–40 per cent in 2025 compared with 2023. The impact has been immediate and severe, especially in low- and middle-income...

Gaza facing worst economic collapse ever recorded, UN trade agency warns

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·November 25, 2025·3 min read

Speaking at the launch of UNCTAD’s 2025 Report on the Economy of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the agency’s Deputy Secretary-General Pedro Manuel Moreno said decades of movement restrictions, combined with the latest military operations, had “wiped out decades of progress” and left both Gaza and the West Bank facing long-term...

UN in Ukraine prepares for the worst, hopes for the best

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·February 22, 2025·4 min read

Ukrainians continue to face near daily attacks, with air strikes consistently targeting civilian infrastructure, leaving families without homes, security and electricity. More than 10 million people have been uprooted from their homes, making Ukraine the largest displacement crisis in Europe since the Second World War. Some 12,600 civilians have been...

2024 ‘one of the worst years in history for children in conflict’

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·December 30, 2024·3 min read

The study, released on Friday, finds that the rights of a record number of children are being violated, including by being killed and injured, missing out of school and life-saving vaccines, and being critically malnourished; the number is only expected to grow. From Palestine to Myanmar, Haiti to Sudan, the...

Catastrophic hunger doubles in 2024; Gaza and Sudan worst hit

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·September 5, 2024·4 min read

The updated Global Report on Food Crises reveals that nearly two million people are now grappling with the most critical level of food insecurity, classified as Phase 5 on the global IPC scale, which tracks acute hunger. This level represents an “extreme lack of food and exhaustion of coping capacities,”...

Syrian war at ‘worst point’ in four years, says Commission of Inquiry head

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·October 28, 2023·1 min read

Paulo Pinheiro spoke to UN News this week after presenting his latest report to the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee, which examines a range of social, humanitarian affairs and human rights issues. The Syrian war, which began in March 2011, is at its “worst point” in four years, he said,...

DR Congo: Children facing worst cholera outbreak in six years

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·August 18, 2023·1 min read

Across the country, there have been at least 31,342 suspected or confirmed cholera cases and 230 deaths in the first seven months of 2023 – many of them children. The worst affected province, North Kivu, has seen more than 21,400 confirmed or suspected cases, including more than 8,000 children under...

From the Field: Ethiopia’s worst drought threatens ‘deadly consequences’ for women

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·June 5, 2022·1 min read

Women and girls face “deadly consequences” in the Somali region of Ethiopia due to the worst drought conditions for forty years, according to the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA....