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Pakistan: UN Experts Demand Release Of Baloch Human Rights Defenders, And An End To Crackdown On Peaceful Protest
Friday, 28 March 2025, 11:44 am | UN News
The experts expressed concern about an escalating series of actions by the Pakistan police against the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), a network advocating for the rights of the minority Baloch community. More >>
Comment By UN High Commissioner For Human Rights Volker Türk On Sudanese Armed Forces Airstrikes In Tora, North Darfur
Friday, 28 March 2025, 11:41 am | UN News
UN High Commissioner For Human Rights Volker Türk urges both parties to take all measures, as required by law, to avoid harming civilians and attacking civilian objects. Indiscriminate attacks and attacks against civilians, and civilian objects, are unacceptable ... More >>
UN Experts Urge Immediate Action To Protect Children Against Trafficking For Recruitment And Use In Hostilities In DRC
Friday, 28 March 2025, 11:37 am | UN News
Reports from health facilities indicate a rise in rape cases, with children accounting for 30 per cent of those treated. Humanitarian agencies have identified more than 1,100 unaccompanied and separated children in North and South Kivu. More >>
Belarus: Alarming Ill-Treatment Of Women Prisoners And Life-Threatening Condition Of Viktoria Kulsha, Say UN Experts
Friday, 28 March 2025, 11:31 am | UN News
Kulsha is currently being held in Zarechye Correctional Colony No. 24 and has reportedly suffered a serious deterioration in her physical and mental health. However, she has been denied adequate medical and psychological care and continues to be subjected ... More >>
Nigeria Must Urgently Halt Demolitions Of Waterfront Communities In Lagos
Friday, 28 March 2025, 10:47 am | UN News
Demolitions must never lead to homelessness of the evicted persons, who should have access to adequate alternative housing, resettlement and compensation for lost property. More >>
DR Congo: Record Numbers Face Acute Or Emergency Hunger
Friday, 28 March 2025, 10:42 am | UN News
A record 27.7 million people are in the grip of acute hunger in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), amid ongoing conflict linked to massive displacement and rising food prices, global food security experts warned on Thursday. More >>
Fast Fashion Fuelling Global Waste Crisis, UN Chief Warns
Friday, 28 March 2025, 10:31 am | UN News
Fast fashion is accelerating an environmental catastrophe, with the equivalent of one garbage truck’s worth of clothing either incinerated or sent to landfill every second, the UN chief warned on Thursday. More >>
Sudan War: Displacement Figures Fall For First Time
Friday, 28 March 2025, 10:04 am | UN News
For the first time in nearly two years of brutal conflict between rival militaries, the number of Sudanese internally displaced has fallen, the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported on Thursday. More >>
UN Rights Body Sounds The Alarm Over South Sudan Crisis
Friday, 28 March 2025, 9:57 am | UN News
The UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan issued an alert on Thursday over the rapidly escalating crisis in the country, calling for urgent coordinated action to protect civilians and preserve the 2018 peace deal that ended five years of civil ... More >>
Is Climate Science The Next Power Source For Renewable Energy?
Thursday, 27 March 2025, 11:32 am | UN News
As solar, wind, and hydropower expand, scientists say integrating climate data and forecasting is key to making renewable systems stronger. More >>
‘Renewables Are Renewing Economies’, UN Chief Tells Top Climate Forum
Thursday, 27 March 2025, 10:42 am | UN News
Ministers from 40 countries met on Wednesday at the first major climate forum of 2025 to discuss progress in renewable energy generation and the rising toll of inaction over rising temperatures. More >>
Pact For The Future: Countries Urged To Translate Pledges Into Action
Thursday, 27 March 2025, 10:04 am | UN News
UN Member States met on Wednesday for the first of three key meetings to advance a global agreement that pledges concrete actions to achieve a safer, more peaceful, sustainable and inclusive world for generations to come. More >>
Deadly Impacts Of Childhood Stunting Can Be Prevented, WFP Insists
Thursday, 27 March 2025, 9:49 am | UN News
Childhood stunting from malnutrition is a global but preventable problem if adequate investment can be found, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday, amid chronic funding shortages that threaten essential feeding programmes. More >>
Yemen: Ten Years Of War, A Lifetime Of Loss
Thursday, 27 March 2025, 8:58 am | UN News
Marking a decade of war in Yemen, Othman Belbeisi, Regional Director for Middle East and North Africa at the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM), highlights the resilience of its people, the deepening humanitarian crisis, and the urgent need ... More >>
Migrant Deaths In Asia Hit Record High In 2024, UN Data Reveals
Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 11:33 am | UN News
The year 2024 marked the deadliest on record for migrants in Asia, with at least 2,514 lives lost along the region’s perilous migration routes, according to new data from the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM). More >>
Comment By UN Human Rights Office Spokesperson Liz Throssell On Widespread Detentions In Türkiye
Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 9:49 am | UN News
Over 1,000 people have been detained during the protests, among them at least nine media workers. More >>
Yemen: One In Two Children Severely Malnourished After 10 Years Of War
Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 9:32 am | UN News
In Yemen, a decade of conflict has proved catastrophic for the country’s children living under the threat of airstrikes and staggeringly high malnutrition rates, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday. More >>
Crimes Of The Transatlantic Slave Trade ‘Unacknowledged, Unspoken And Unaddressed’
Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 9:20 am | UN News
The transatlantic slave trade may have ended centuries ago but its legacy is ever present, the UN Secretary-General said on Tuesday, marking the International Day of Remembrance for its victims. More >>
Aid Operations Stretched To The Limit In Burundi By Ongoing DR Congo Crisis
Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 9:02 am | UN News
With thousands fleeing violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) across the border into Burundi, aid operations are stretched to the limit, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday. More >>
South Sudan On The Brink Of Civil War, Top UN Official Warns
Tuesday, 25 March 2025, 10:01 am | UN News
South Sudan is teetering on the brink of a return to full-scale civil war as violence escalates and political tensions deepen, the head of the UN Mission in the country (UNMISS) warned on Monday. More >>
