Archive for June 20th, 2025

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20/06/2025

“As Widespread as Guns and Bullets”: Sexual Violence Used to Terrorize Sudan’s Women and Girls

Human Wrongs Watch

More than 12 million people – one quarter of the population – are at risk of gender-based violence

GEDAREF STATE, SUDAN, 19 June 2025 (UN Population Fund)* – “Every woman and girl here is at risk, no matter her age or background. No one is safe,” said Khadija*, a midwife at a maternity clinic in Sudan’s eastern Gedaref State. 

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The shadow of a girl holding her hand up against a blue wall
More than 12 million people in Sudan are at risk of gender-based violence, with frontline responders and survivors reporting alarming rates of rape, abuse, coercion and child marriage © UNFPA Sudan
 

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20/06/2025

‘We Are at a Point of No Return’: Grave Violations against Children Surge for Third Year

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(UN News)* — Last year, 41,370 grave violations against children were documented and verified by the United Nations, according to the UN Secretary-General’s annual report on children in armed conflict, released on Thursday .  

8,554 grave violations against children occurred in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
UN News | 8,554 grave violations against children occurred in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
 
 

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20/06/2025

Gaza: As Last Fuel Supplies Run Out, Aid Teams Warn of Catastrophe – ‘Vital Services Are Only “Hours Away” from Shutting Down’

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(UN News)* — More than 100 days into Israel’s complete fuel blockade in Gaza, UN agencies still in the shattered enclave warned on Thursday that vital services are only “hours away” from shutting down.

Children collect water in northern Gaza.
© UNOCHA/Olga Cherevko | Children collect water in northern Gaza.
 
Speaking from Gaza City in the north of occupied territory, Olga Cherevko from the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, said that water pumps had stopped at one site for displaced people there on Wednesday “because there’s no fuel”.

“We are really – unless the situation changes – hours away from a catastrophic decline and a shutdown of more facilities if no fuel enters or more fuel isn’t retrieved immediately,” she told UN News.

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