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Africa
Sudan: Women and girls abducted, held ‘in slave-like conditions’ in Darfur
The stark report comes against the backdrop of a sharp uptick in fighting between the Government’s Sudan Armed Forces (SAF)…
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Middle East
Gaza: UN’s Türk calls for political path out of ‘horror’
Speaking in Geneva, the High Commissioner for Human Rights urged the parties to the conflict to “create the political space…
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Middle East
Stories from the UN Archive: The origin of #PalestineDay
Why 29 November? On that day in 1947, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on the partition of Palestine. At the…
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Europe
Russia: UN rights chief denounces outlawing of ‘the international LGBT movement’
Russia’s Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a claim by the Ministry of Justice that the so-called “international LGBT movement” was…
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Human Rights
Gaza: UN rights chief appeals for end to violence and a return to dialogue
“Silence the guns and return to dialogue – the suffering inflicted on civilians is too much to bear. More violence…
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Human Rights
Iraq: UN team issues latest report on terrorist atrocities
Christian Ritscher, head of the UN Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh – otherwise known as…
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Peace and Security
Gaza crisis: Starvation must never be allowed to happen, says UN rights chief
“Starvation must never be a means or result of warfare,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Türk said, responding to an…
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Peace and Security
The price of peace and development: Paying for the UN
Just before Christmas, the 193 Member States that make up the UN General Assembly signed off a $3.59 billion budget…
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Peace and Security
Gaza: UN calls for urgent aid scale-up amid new mass exodus to Rafah
“A traumatized and exhausted population” is being “crammed into a smaller and smaller sliver of land,” UN emergency relief chief…
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Africa
African women on the frontline of peacekeeping
In 2022, Baah was one of the 173 Ghanaian women peacekeepers who served in the UN Interim Mission in Lebanon. She…
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