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UN migration agency IOM aid workers offer help to migrants who have been returned to shore in Libya after attempting to cross the sea to Europe. (file)

Refugees, migrants face violence, abuse and death on routes across Africa, new data shows

Refugees and migrants continue to face extreme forms of violence, exploitation and death on sea and on land across Africa as they attempt to leave the continent, UN agencies said on Friday, in an appeal to border authorities to do more to protect them.

Girls study science at a school in India.

Time running short as 2030 deadline looms for UN blueprint for a fairer future

Palestinians in Khan Younis on the move after the latest Israeli evacuation orders. Around nine in 10 Gazans have been displaced at least once since the war began.

Gaza war grinds on as forcibly displaced run out of space to shelter

UN Secretary-General António Guterres. (file photo)

UN chief to leaders of regional bloc: end wars, deal with existential crises

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UN mobilizes $4 million for Hurricane Beryl response in the Caribbean

Haiti: UN envoy welcomes democratic progress amidst alarming violence

Gaza ‘split in two’ as civilians, humanitarians reset lives, aid efforts

Ukraine: UN report reveals ‘horrific toll’ of Russian attacks

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People search for water in Khan Younis city in the southern the Gaza Strip. (file)

Going back into ‘hell’: An aid worker’s journey through shattered Gaza

Globally, temperatures are reaching record levels.

‘Heatwaves will be more frequent because of human-made climate change’

Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, holds his last press conference as Emergency Relief Coordinator at UN Headquarters.

Relief chief pledges UN aid operation will continue across Gaza

Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has been in prison for nearly five years, fighting a US extradition order.

Assange release ‘a very good outcome’: UN torture expert

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Angelique attended the UNODC-supported Strong Families programme with her mother.

Feeling ‘90 per cent stronger’: Families in the Philippines help prevent drug abuse

Law and Crime Prevention A mother in the Philippines has explained how she feels “90 per cent stronger” after participating in a UN-supported programme which aims to build parenting skills and help children communicate more openly about difficult issues such as drugs.

The availability of solar energy has enabled farmers in north Sudan to continue farming

INTERVIEW: Sustainable energy offers ‘hope’ in fight against desertification and land loss

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First Person: Guest editing UN News’s first live blog takeover

A teacher in India leads an awareness class about menstrual and general hygiene to her students. (file)

Explainer: What’s a dignity kit?

Workers construct barriers to combat sea erosion along the coastline of Tuvalu.

More climate funding needed to ‘transition from rhetoric to decisive action’

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Many Gazans who fled to Rafah are now on the move again.

Searching for safety in Gaza

Most of Gaza’s 2.3 million people are fleeing from escalating violence in the north and south in the seven-month-long war that has killed nearly 36,000 Palestinians, leaving behind a looming famine and trails of rubble in the besieged enclave.

PHOTO STORY: 6 months of Gaza conflict leaves many close to famine

On 5 March 2024, UNICEF and partners delivered 23 incubators to hospitals in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

Ukraine: War and restoring a sense of home

A single mother of three children is rebuilding her home with help from the UN refugee agency, UNHCR.

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Belarus is not safe for anyone critical of authorities, warns rights expert

Human Rights Citizens and civil society critical of the Belarussian authorities face worsening repression, arbitrary detention, ill-treatment and harassment, nearly four years since widespread public protests took place surrounding the re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko, a UN independent human rights expert said on Wednesday.

Visualization of Artificial Intelligence combining a human brain schematic with a circuit board.

China-based inventors lead on global GenAI patents: UN report

Economic Development China-based inventors are filing the highest number of generative artificial intelligence patents, a new report from the UN World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) shows.

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