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Moves by US, UK and other donors to cut aid mean ‘high malnutrition rates, starvation and death’, say expertsCuts to food assistance by the US, Britain and others are already leading to more people starving to death around the world, experts have warne…
Report details attacks and abuses that ‘destroyed in part the reproductive capacity of Palestinians in Gaza as a group’Israel’s systemic attacks on women’s healthcare in Gaza amount to “genocidal acts”, and Israeli security forces have used sexual viol…
The system America took 80 years to assemble proved surprisingly fragile in the face of Trump’s assault, a revolution in how the country exercises power across the globe.
Human rights commissioner calls for investigation into ‘extremely disturbing’ attacks in Latakia provinceThe UN has condemned what it called “extremely disturbing” reports of entire families being killed in north-west Syria as clashes between security …
President Slava Kir appeals for calm while analysts say escalating tensions could lead to full-blown conflictA South Sudanese general and dozens of soldiers have been killed after a United Nations helicopter trying to evacuate them from the northern to…
The aircraft came under fire as it tried to rescue wounded soldiers, the United Nations said. The attack came amid fears that a critical power-sharing deal was at risk of collapse, risking all-out civil war.
Mina Watanabe has made it her life’s work to tell the stories of the women who were sexually enslaved by the Japanese military before and during World War II.
Teargas fired during protest at reduced rations after US aid freeze wipes out half of World Food Programme budgetThousands of refugees clashed with police in a Kenyan refugee camp this week after receiving news that their food allocations would be cut …
UN food agency received half its budget from US last year and is accelerating merger plan as a result of funding cutsThe UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) is closing its southern Africa office in the wake of the Trump administration’s aid cuts.In a state…
Volker Türk alarmed at growing power of ‘unelected tech oligarchs’ and warns gender equality is being rolled backThe UN human rights chief has warned of a “fundamental shift” in the US and sounded the alarm over the growing power of “unelected tech oli…