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News from the United Nations
- Bangladesh: Rohingya children’s acute hunger surges amid funding cuts March 11, 2025In Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar refugee settlements, child malnutrition has surged and cuts to aid funding risk creating a humanitarian “catastrophe”, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Tuesday.
- Women, girls bear brunt of cyberbullying against persons with disabilities March 10, 2025States must do more to prevent cyberbullying and overcome unequal access to assistive technology which hampers the rights of persons with disabilities - particularly women and girls - the Human Rights Council has heard.
- Syria: Children among the dead amid reports of mass killings and looting March 10, 2025Children are feared to be among more than 1,000 people reportedly killed in fierce fighting over the weekend in Syria’s coastal northwest, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said.
- World’s largest conference on women calls for equality amid gender backlash March 10, 2025Gender equality is a critical goal at a time when the demand for rights faces a global backlash, top UN officials told thousands of diplomats, business and civil society delegates gathered at UN Headquarters in New York on Monday for the world’s largest annual conference focused on women’s issues.
- Gaza power cut impacts safe water access for hundreds of thousands March 10, 2025Severe water shortages in Gaza have reached critical levels, with only one in 10 people currently able to access safe drinking water, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Monday.
- Drug traffickers running routes through war zones, top UN official warns March 10, 2025A “new black market” for synthetics and drug trafficking through war zones are fuelling instability around the world, the chief of the UN drugs and crime office said on Monday.
- Afghanistan: Top UN envoy calls for ‘a moment of realism’, as Taliban’s isolation grows March 10, 2025The top UN envoy for Afghanistan on Monday underscored the need for realistic engagement with the country as humanitarian and human rights crises deepen amid growing international isolation.
- Explainer: The Commission on the Status of Women and why it matters March 9, 2025Ever since former US First Lady and human rights champion Eleanor Roosevelt inspired the first UN sub-commission on the status of women in the 1940s, thousands of women around the world meet at UN Headquarters in New York every March to take the pulse of the planet and make their voices heard.
- UN rights chief raises alarm over escalating violence in Syria March 9, 2025The killing of civilians in coastal areas in northwest Syria must cease immediately, the UN rights chief said on Sunday following a series of coordinated attacks reportedly launched by elements of the former government and other local armed men.
- Ukraine reels from one of the deadliest days of war March 9, 2025Attacks across Ukraine on Friday reportedly left 21 civilians dead and scores injured, making it one of the deadliest days this year, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in the country said in a statement issued on Saturday night.