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Gender therapy review reveals devastating impacts on teens

Gender therapy review reveals devastating impacts on teens

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The development is in line with several western European countries that have reportedly reduced access to similar gender identity treatments whose benefits were...
Sudan catastrophe must not be allowed to continue: UN rights chief Türk

Sudan catastrophe must not be allowed to continue: UN rights chief...

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A year to the day since heavy fighting erupted between Sudan’s rival militaries, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights warned of a further...
Gaza: rights experts condemn AI role in destruction by Israeli military

Gaza: rights experts condemn AI role in destruction by Israeli military

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“Six months into the current military offensive, more housing and civilian infrastructure has now been destroyed in Gaza as a percentage, compared to any...
Gaza: Aid worker killings prompt temporary halt to UN operations after dark

Gaza: Aid worker killings prompt temporary halt to UN operations after...

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UN humanitarians in Gaza have suspended operations at night for at least 48 hours in response to the killing of seven aid workers from the NGO.
First Person: ‘I no longer amount to anything’ – Voices of the displaced in Haiti

First Person: ‘I no longer amount to anything’ – Voices of...

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He and others spoke to Eline Joseph, who works for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Port-au-Prince with a team which provides...
World News in Brief: Rights chief dismay over Uganda anti-LGBT law, Haiti update, aid for Sudan, executions alert in Egypt

World News in Brief: Rights chief dismay over Uganda anti-LGBT law,...

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In a statement, Volker Türk urged authorities in Kampala to repeal it in its entirety, together with other discriminatory legislation passed into law by...
UN leaders galvanize action for reparations for people of African descent

UN leaders galvanize action for reparations for people of African descent

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Experts and UN leaders exchanged views about the best ways forward, centred on this year’s theme, A Decade of Recognition, Justice, and Development:...
Gaza: Resuming night-time aid deliveries, UN reports ‘dire’ conditions

Gaza: Resuming night-time aid deliveries, UN reports ‘dire’ conditions

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UN officials launched assessment visits to Gaza and its agencies will resume night-time aid deliveries on Thursday after a 48-hour pause.
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Armed groups continue terror campaign across Burkina Faso

High Commissioner Volker Türk said, from the capital Ouagadougou, that his local office had been “engaging intensely with the authorities, civil society actors,...

UN underscores commitment to stay and deliver in Myanmar

The expansion of fighting throughout the country has deprived communities of basic needs and access to essential services and has had a devastating impact...

World News in Brief: Sex trafficking and child recruitment in Sudan, new mass grave in Libya, children at risk in DR Congo

This is being compounded by an increase in child and forced marriage, and the recruitment of boys by combatants in the continuing war...

World News in Brief: $12 million for Haiti, Ukraine airstrikes condemned, support mine action

A $12 million contribution from a UN emergency humanitarian fund will support people impacted by the violence that broke out in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, in March. 

Central African Republic: Said trial opens at International Criminal Court

Mahamat Said Abdel Kani - a top-ranking leader of the mostly-Muslim Séléka militia - pleaded not guilty to all charges, which relate to...

Gaza: Human Rights Council resolution urges arms embargo on Israel

In a resolution adopted by 28 votes in favour, six against and 13 abstentions, the 47-member Human Rights Council backed a call "to cease...

Haitians ‘cannot wait’ for reign of terror by gangs to end: Rights chief

"The scale of human rights violations is unprecedented in Haiti's modern history," Volker Türk said in a video statement to the UN Human...

Israel must allow ‘quantum leap’ in aid delivery UN chief urges, calling for change in military tactics

Israel must make meaningful changes in the way it is fighting in Gaza to avoid civilian casualties while also undergoing “a true paradigm shift” in lifesaving aid delivery

Mother makes 200km emergency trip across rural Madagascar to save baby

“I thought I was going to lose my baby and die on the journey to hospital.”The chilling words of Samueline Razafindravao, who had...

Sudan: Aid lifeline reaches Darfur region in bid to avert ‘hunger catastrophe’

“The UN WFP has managed to bring desperately needed food and nutrition supplies into Darfur; the first WFP assistance to reach the war-wracked region...
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