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Most Gaza families survive on one meal a day. Adults are routinely skipping meals in order to leave more for children, the elderly and the ill.
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27/06/2025
‘Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are increasingly being subjected to forced displacement and land seizures’
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UN human rights office sounds the alarm over forced displacement in the West Bank
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26/06/2025
$1 Towards a Girl’s Education = $3 for the Global Economy: That’s How Development Works
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By Antonio Lafuente, UN News*
— Helping those with less isn’t charity – it’s a shared investment in a better future. Yet global development financing is under strain. An upcoming UN conference in Sevilla, Spain, aims to change that by mobilizing large-scale investment for a more just and sustainable world.
© UNICEF/Roger Yebuah | Girls give the thumbs-up at a school in Ghana.
Every dollar invested in girls’ education yields an average return of $2.80 – translating into billions in additional GDP.
Similarly, each dollar spent on water and sanitation saves $4.30 in healthcare costs.
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26/06/2025
‘The world needs an extra $4 trillion every year to tackle some of the biggest challenges – ending poverty and hunger, fighting climate change, and reducing inequality’
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© UNICEF/ Frank Dejongh | Children plant flowers in a playground in N’Djamena, Chad as part of an education project.
These are part of 17 goals agreed by nearly every country, called the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The plan is to hit these targets by 2030.
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26/06/2025
Iran— Deja Vu All Over Again
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– Chest thumping “Mission Accomplished” claims by President Trump that he ordered the world’s biggest conventional bombs to be dropped on a sleeping nation of 90 million people, were premature.
IAEA chief Rafael Grossi said Iran has reported no increase in radiation levels outside Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz nuclear sites. After surprise US bombing raids on Iranian uranium enrichment facilities over the weekend, the head of the UN-backed nuclear watchdog on Monday appealed for immediate access to the targeted sites to assess the damage that is likely “very significant”. 23 June 2025. Credit: Dean Calma/IAEA
To top it off he bragged that Iran’s nuclear capacity was devastated and that the whole nation fired “not a single shot” back.
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26/06/2025
Rwanda: Opposition Leader Arrested
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By Human Rights Watch*
(Nairobi) – The Rwandan authorities rearrested Victoire Ingabire, the head of an unregistered political party, on June 19, 2025, as a part of a drawn-out trial that targets political opposition figures, Human Rights Watch on 24 June 2025 said.
The authorities should release Ingabire and other people detained on politically motivated grounds and guarantee the rights to freedom of expression, association, and peaceful assembly.
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25/06/2025
‘Asia Is Warming at Twice the Global Average, Marine Heatwaves Worst on Record, Floods and Droughts Destroyed Lives and Livelihoods’
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By the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)*
23 June 2025 — Asia is currently warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, fuelling more extreme weather and wreaking a heavy toll on the region’s economies, ecosystems and societies, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
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The WMO’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report says that 2024 was the warmest or second warmest year on record (depending on the dataset), with widespread and prolonged heatwaves.
21/06/2025
Why Is the Manosphere on the Rise? UN Women Sounds the Alarm over Online Misogyny
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By Ana Carmo, UN News*
— A growing network of online communities known collectively as the “manosphere” is emerging as a serious threat to gender equality, as toxic digital spaces increasingly influence real-world attitudes, behaviours, and policies, the UN agency dedicated to ending gender discrimination has warned.
Unsplash/Anthony Tran | Women and girls are feeling less comfortable to be exposed to the risks and threats when they engage in digital platforms, according to UN Women.
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21/06/2025
From Uganda to Angola, Africa’s Refugees Face Soaring Hunger, Shrinking Aid
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By the World Food Programme (WFP)*
A funding shortfall is forcing WFP and other humanitarian organizations to cut assistance to some of the world’s most vulnerable people
— Omnia and her young son stand in line under a harsh midday sun, waiting for the daily hot lunch for newcomers at Uganda’s Kiryandongo refugee settlement.
Exhaustion is etched on the face of this single mother, who arrived by bus from war-torn Sudan the day before.
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20/06/2025
“As Widespread as Guns and Bullets”: Sexual Violence Used to Terrorize Sudan’s Women and Girls
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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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