ROME – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned that 58 million people risk losing life-saving assistance in the agency’s 28 most critical crisis response operations unless new funding is received urgently.
IDLIB, Syria, Apr 17 2025 (IPS)* – The Syrian war has left countless Syrians with devastating injuries, ranging from limb amputations and burns to the loss of sensory functions.
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Salem Diab experiences many difficulties since he lost his leg during the Syrian civil war. Credit: Sonia al-Ali/IPS
These injuries have profoundly impacted their lives, compounded by the limited attention and support they receive from civil society organizations.
Salam al-Hassan, 43, from Saraqib, south of Idlib city, lost both her legs in 2023 when a warplane missile exploded nearby.
PORTLAND, USA, Apr 15 2025 (IPS)* –As the world’s population of 8.2 billion people increases in size and becomes older due to demographic ageing, the number of people experiencing the long goodbye, or dementia, is rapidly rising.
Despite the global rise in dementia, people living with the condition should continue to enjoy the same human rights as everyone else — including the rights to dignity, autonomy, and participation in decisions about their lives. Credit: Shutterstock
11 April 2025 — On the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, a group of Israeli settlers carrying metal sticks and tools descended a rocky hill and attacked Khadija Kaabneh’s family.
Khadija Kaabneh looks towards her family’s third displacement site. Photo: Farah Bayadsi/NRC
The settlers stormed and destroyed the family’s tents, ransacked their belongings, and beat Khadija’s husband and sons. Fearing for her and her daughters’ safety, she fled to a nearby hill, helpless as she watched settlers attack her eldest son, Bashar.
A couple of hours after the 1 March attack, they issued a threat. “They said they would kill us if we stayed,” recounts Khadija.
(Washington, DC) –The governments of the United States and El Salvador have subjected more than 200 Venezuelan nationals to enforced disappearances and arbitrary detention, Human Rights Watch said today [11 April 2025].
THE WEST BANK, Occupied Palestinian Territory, 11 April 2025 –“I suffered from postpartum fever, but reaching the hospital was nearly impossible because of the siege on medical services,” said 26-year-old Sara*, from the Nur Shams refugee camp near the Palestinian city of Tulkarm.
She gave birth a little over two months ago, just as the Israeli forces began renewed and intense incursions into multiple areas of the West Bank, where pregnant women and new mothers grapple daily with displacement and the denial of healthcare.
(UN News)* — Hostilities across the Gaza Strip continue to take a devastating toll on the population, with daily reports of Israeli strikes killing and injuring many civilians, UN aid coordination office OCHA said on Thursday .
OCHAsaiddozens of people, including at least eight children, were killed in Gaza City on Wednesday 9 April 2025 after an Israeli strike hit a residential building.
(UN News)* — The United Nations is ramping up its response to Myanmar’s devastating earthquake, calling for increased funding and an immediate ceasefire to ensure more aid reaches those in desperate need.
The 7.7 magnitude earthquake – which struck on March 28 – has claimed over 3,600 lives, injured a further 4,800 people and left 184 still missing.
The disaster has affected more than nine million people across 58 townships, with thousands of buildings, including hospitals and schools, reduced to rubble.
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 11 2025 (IPS)* –As the Trump administration’s hostility towards the United Nations and other international organizations keeps growing, a New York Times columnist last week proposed what he frivolously described as “something a little incendiary”.
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Credit: John Birch Society
Maybe Trump could follow up on his non-appointment of Elise Stefanik as US Ambassador to the United Nations—who has been virulently anti-UN—by withdrawing the US from the United Nations entirely.
()* — As governments and global markets struggle to deal with the deep concerns and disruptions caused by volatility over trade tariffs, Rebeca Grynspan, the head of the UN trade and development agency (UNCTAD), told UN News on Thursday that the poorest countries – whose activities have a negligible effect on trade deficits – should be exempt.
Ms. Grynspan was speaking in the wake of growing UN concern at the effect on-going uncertainty could have on the most vulnerable developing economies.
On Tuesday , the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, stated that “trade wars are extremely negative,” and warned that the impact of tariffs could be “devastating.”
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