Global Issues
News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 47
Humanitarians report more deaths, displacement and desperation in Gaza
- UN News
The continued onslaught and mass deprivation of people in the Gaza Strip is becoming normalised, the UN aid coordination office OCHA warned on Friday.
On the road in war-torn Gaza
- UN News
Mohammed Saad sits with others inside a homemade cart pulled by a car carrying several passengers, waiting to travel to Gaza City in one of the “uncomfortable and extremely expensive” means of transportation used to get around the Strip.
‘You have to be able to rule your life’: The care revolution in Latin America
- UN News
Globally, there are 12.5 billion hours of work that the world never pays for because it barely even sees it.
Syria crisis: Hundreds killed in ongoing violence, hospitals overwhelmed
- UN News
Amid violent clashes in southern Syria’s Sweida governorate, a picture of grave human rights abuses and rising humanitarian needs is emerging by the hour, the UN said on Friday.
As war rages on in Ukraine, organised crime is taking new forms
- UN News
Almost four years after Russia’s full-scale invasion, criminal groups in Ukraine are adapting their business models amid displacement, rising trafficking risks and an increased demand for synthetic drugs, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said in a report published on Friday.
Human Rights in an Increasingly Digitizing World
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, July 17 (IPS) - Over the past several decades, digital technologies have transformed nearly every aspect of human life, revolutionizing developments across multiple sectors, including healthcare, education, and commerce, to name a few. However, these changes have also brought forth new concerns surrounding the preservation of human rights in an increasingly digitizing world.
The Emerging Quad 3.0: Prioritizing a Hard Security Agenda
- Inter Press Service
On 1 July, the foreign ministers of the Quad—Australia, India, Japan and the US—convened for the second time this year in Washington, DC. While the first meeting, held just hours after the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States, signaled the Quad’s significance to the new US administration, the second meeting indicates that the Quad is entering a new phase with a renewed focus on a strategic and hard security agenda, weaning itself away from its non-traditional security priorities. This presents a departure from its previous versions: the first Quad, which collapsed in 2007, centred on humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR), and Quad 2.0, which was reinstated in 2017, gradually developed a broad public goods agenda.
UN sounds alarm over Syria as sectarian clashes and Israeli strikes escalate
- UN News
A surge in sectarian violence in southern Syria and Israeli airstrikes reaching central Damascus have pushed the war‑scarred country into a volatile juncture, a senior UN official said on Thursday, warning that renewed violence could shatter prospects for peace and fuel wider regional instability.
From crisis to classroom: How the UN supports education in conflict zones
- UN News
From makeshift furniture in Gaza to metro classrooms in Ukraine and solar-powered tablets in Sudan, the UN is working to bring education to millions of crisis-affected children.
Faith on the Frontlines: New Military Chaplain Programme Reaches Soldiers in Africa
- Inter Press Service
MUTARE, Zimbabwe, July 16 (IPS) - It is a cold morning in eastern Zimbabwe as Lieutenant Colonel Reverend Doctor Samba Mosweu celebrates a glorious moment he has been waiting for all his life.
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