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20/11/2025

Top Syria Envoy: Humanitarian Conditions Are “Extremely Serious”

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(UN News)* — Nearly a year on from the fall of Assad, Syrians still lack many basic necessities as the transitional government works to shore up the economy and build social cohesion.

A man sells vegetables on the streets of Idleb in Syria.
© UNOCHA/Ali Haj Suleiman | A man sells vegetables on the streets of Idleb in Syria.

Humanitarian conditions are “extremely serious,” UN Deputy Special Envoy for Syria Najat Rochdi told the Security Council on Wednesday [].

There are over 16 million people in need of aid with hundreds of thousands displaced, according to the UN humanitarian coordination office (OCHA).

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20/11/2025

Ending Violence against Women ‘a Matter of Dignity, Equality and Human Rights’

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(UN News)* — When Salma* was just 15, she was forced to get married, even though she wanted to stay in school and become a doctor someday.

The National Council of Justice (CNJ) of Brazil signed a cooperation agreement with the iFood delivery platform to combat violence against women.
Agência Brasil/Joédson Alves | The National Council of Justice (CNJ) of Brazil signed a cooperation agreement with the iFood delivery platform to combat violence against women.
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Instead, she found herself tied to a man who “changed from being kind to being a monster.” He would beat her “with his bare hands,” she said recently.

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19/11/2025

Ending World Hunger Costs Less than 1% of Military Spending

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(UN News)* — Ending hunger by 2030 would cost just $93 billion a year — less than one per cent of the $21.9 trillion spent on military budgets over the past decade, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP).

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A woman in the eastern DR Congo, who was forced to flee her home, due to violence works on a smallholding.
© WFP/Benjamin Anguandia | A woman in the eastern DR Congo, who was forced to flee her home, due to violence works on a smallholding.

By 2026 a staggering 318 million people would face crisis levels of hunger or worse, more than double the figure recorded in 2019, the food agency reported in its 2026 Global Outlook.

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19/11/2025

Terrorism in Africa, a ‘Growing Global Threat’

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 (UN News)* — Expanding terrorist networks, mass displacement and the collapse of essential services in West Africa and the Sahel are a growing concern worldwide.

A Nigerien soldier guards a strategic location in Ouallam, Niger.
UN News/Daniel Dickinson | A Nigerien soldier guards a strategic location in Ouallam, Niger.

That’s according to the UN Secretary-General António Guterres who told the Security Council on Monday that the growth in terrorist groups was “not only a regional dramatic reality.”

“Progressive links of its groups in Africa and beyond make it a growing global threat.”

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19/11/2025

“Regime Change” in Venezuela Is Euphemism for U.S.-inflicted Carnage and Chaos

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By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service*

For decades, Washington has sold the world a deadly lie: that “regime change” brings freedom, that U.S. bombs and blockades can somehow deliver democracy. But every country that has lived through this euphemism knows the truth—it instead brings death, dismemberment, and despair.

A United Socialist Party rally in Caracas, 3 Aug 2024. Photo: Morning Star

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18/11/2025

Methane Is the Fastest Climate Win — Here’s the Data the World Needs

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By the UN Environment Programme*

17 November 2025 — Methane might only stay in the atmosphere for a short time, but its impact is powerful—and cutting it is one of the quickest ways to slow global warming.

Methane is the fastest climate win — here’s the data the world needs

Credit: UNEP

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17/11/2025

European Banks Pour Nearly €8 Billion a Year into Critical Minerals Mining Despite Links to Human Rights and Environmental Abuses

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By OXFAM International*

Meanwhile, the EU rolls back and weakens its sustainability and green rules

17 November 2025 — New Oxfam, Fair Finance International and 11.11.11. report exposes how Europe’s banks and investors are blindly investing in mining companies linked to land grabs, pollution and human rights violations.

This comes ahead of the EU’s Raw Materials Week.  

The report, “Financing Critical Minerals but Failing Critical Safeguards”, finds that Europe’s drive to secure critical raw materials needed for the green transition inadvertently fuels human rights abuses and environmental harm.

 
 

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17/11/2025

Healing the Hidden Wounds of Childbirth

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(UN News)* — In Somalia, where six out of ten births take place without a doctor, childbirth is often a matter of survival. 

A patient recovering from fistula repair surgery is examined at Dayniile Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia.

© UNFPA/Usame Nur Hussein | A patient recovering from fistula repair surgery is examined at Dayniile Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia.

For women like 38-year-old Farhiya from rural Beletweyne, the consequences can be devastating — a painful obstetric fistula, a hole in the birth canal that left her incontinent, isolated, and cut off from her community.

“I was stressed, constantly worried, and isolated from my community. I was living in my house as if I had some sort of contagious disease,” she said.

In Somalia, 6 out of 10 births occur without a doctor present, which often leads to childbirth complications like obstetric fistula.

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17/11/2025

Lebanon: UN Peacekeeping Patrol Targeted by Israeli Tank, IDF Blames ‘Misidentification’

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(UN News)* — On Sunday [], a foot patrol of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) was targeted by an Israeli army Merkava tank from an Israeli position in Lebanese territory.
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According to the UN peacekeeping mission, bursts of heavy artillery hit an area just five meters away from the UNIFIL blue helmets, who had to quickly retreat and take shelter in the terrain.
UNIFIL peacekeepers on patrol (file)
© UNIFIL | UNIFIL peacekeepers on patrol (file)

Mission representatives were able to contact the IDF (Israeli Defence Force) via their communications channels and ask them to stop firing, UNIFIL explained in a press release. The patrol was able to leave safely half an hour later, when the tank withdrew to IDF positions.

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16/11/2025

The Silent War Before COP30: How Corporations Are Weaponising the Law to Muzzle Climate Defenders

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By Bibbi Abruzzini and Lucia Torres (Forus) and Jake Wieczorek (Hivos)

BELÉM, Brazil, Nov 10 2025 (IPS)** – As the world prepares for the next COP30 summit, a quieter battle is raging in courtrooms.
Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) are the fossil-fuel industry’s new favourite weapon, turning justice systems into instruments of intimidation.

Family agriculture and land defenders in Colombia. Credit: Both Nomads/Forus

“Speak out, and you’ll pay for it”

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