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Record number of attacks on education, global fund warns
- UN News
While September traditionally marks the start of the school year across the northern hemisphere, a staggering 93 million children are not in class at all amid an unprecedented number of attacks on learning, education experts warned on Wednesday.
Ships and seafarers increasingly caught in the crossfire of unrelated wars
- UN News
The global shipping industry is facing a "genuinely unprecedented" convergence of maritime crises, with vessels and seafarers increasingly used as “leverage” in conflicts that have nothing to do with them.
Syria’s transition hinges on justice for all, UN Human Rights Council hears
- UN News
A successful and lasting transition in Syria requires comprehensive accountability, inclusion and guarantees that violations will not be repeated, UN independent investigators told the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Tuesday.
AI: Türk urges action before it becomes an ‘existential risk to humanity’
- UN News
UN human rights chief Volker Türk added his voice on Monday to growing calls for greater AI controls, warning that the revolutionary technology could become an “existential risk to humanity” if left unchecked.
Human rights chief Türk renews call for end to spiralling Sudan war
- UN News
The ongoing war in Sudan took centre stage at the UN Human Rights Council on Monday where the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, led calls for an end to attacks on civilians in “markets, hospitals [and] fuel stations”.
New reservoir offers innovative solution to South Sudan cattle beef
- UN News
At the end of a history-laden path winding through palm trees and scattered ruins – remnants of once-vibrant villages destroyed by cattle raids – lies a rare sight in this dry part of Terekeka county in South Sudan: a sparkling, fresh water source.
West Bank: UN rights report warns of forcible displacement from three refugee camps
- UN News
Israeli security forces forcibly displaced the entire population of three Palestine refugee camps in the occupied West Bank in January and February last year – and continue to prevent their return, in violation of international law, according to a new report by the UN human rights office, OHCHR.
Repeated attacks on humanitarian warehouses put vital medical aid at risk in Ukraine: WHO
- UN News
A new airstrike overnight damaged one of the main warehouses used by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Ukraine to store humanitarian medical supplies in the Kyiv region, the UN agency said on Friday.
Africa Has the Answers to Its Food Security Challenges. What It Needs Is the Architecture to Act on Them
- Inter Press Service
KIGALI, Rwanda, September 3 (IPS) - As leaders gather in Kigali for the Africa Food Systems Forum, they face an urgent question: why do so many proven agricultural innovations still fail to reach the farmers and communities that need them most?
Lebanon–Israel tensions escalate as Gaza sees major aid delivery
- UN News
Peacekeepers in Lebanon have reported a marked deterioration in the security situation along the Blue Line of separation, with Israeli forces intensifying their military footprint in violation of a landmark Security Council resolution, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said on Thursday.
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