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- Ukraine: UN condemns latest deadly attack targeting civilians in Kyiv
on November 14, 2025Several civilians were killed and many others injured, including children, in a large-scale Russian attack on Ukraine’s capital and the wider Kyiv […]
- Sudan war: Aid teams plead for access to thousands trapped in El Fasher
on November 14, 2025Just how many people are still trapped in the Sudanese city of El Fasher? That’s the burning question for relatives of the many thousands of people […]
- ‘Mobs’ target Palestinians in occupied West Bank, as floods roil Gaza
on November 14, 2025Images emerged this week of what appear to be mobs of masked Israeli settlers carrying out arson attacks on Palestinian homes and property, the UN […]
- Gaza: War has made children violent, sad and bereft
on November 13, 2025More than nine in 10 children in Gaza are displaying signs of aggressive behaviour linked to more than two years of war between Hamas and Israel, […]
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- Sudan war: Aid teams plead for access to thousands trapped in El Fasheron November 14, 2025
Just how many people are still trapped in the Sudanese city of El Fasher? That’s the burning question for relatives of the many thousands of people […]
- Trapped behind bars: Reforming Haiti’s broken detention system
on November 11, 2025Fifty-two prisoners have died in Haiti’s overcrowded prisons between July and September this year in conditions that have been described by the […]
- ‘Worrying reports’ continue of abductions and disappearances in Syria
on November 7, 2025Nearly 100 people in Syria have been abducted or forcibly disappeared since January, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Friday, calling for […]
- World News in Brief: Russian rights abuses in Ukraine, US a no-show for rights review, Orlando Bloom highlights Rohingya plight
on November 7, 2025Independent UN human rights investigators have heard first-hand accounts of torture, unlawful detention and the forced transfer of civilians during […]
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- Stolen Past: Inside the fight against illicit antiquities trafficking
on November 14, 2025The illicit trade in cultural property is one of the world’s oldest and most profitable forms of criminal activity – but now efforts by the UN […]
- Trapped behind bars: Reforming Haiti’s broken detention systemon November 11, 2025
Fifty-two prisoners have died in Haiti’s overcrowded prisons between July and September this year in conditions that have been described by the […]
- International Criminal Court: Sanctions threaten global fight against impunity
on November 11, 2025Coercion and sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) are “assaults on the very principles of international law itself,” the […]
- Afghanistan: Opium cultivation drops sharply, but regional trafficking rises
on November 6, 2025Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has fallen by 20 per cent compared to last year, continuing a dramatic decline since the introduction of a […]