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(UN News)* — UN Secretary-General António Guterres has strongly condemned the “heinous deadly attack” on Sunday against Jewish families gathered in Sydney, Australia, to celebrate Hanukkah.
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16/12/2025
7 in 10 Women Human Rights Defenders, Activists and Journalists Report Online Violence
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By UN Women*
Online violence is spilling offline: Four in ten of the women surveyed also reported experiencing offline attacks connected to digital abuse.
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Geneva – Online violence against women human rights defenders, activists and journalists has reached a tipping point, often fueling offline attacks, according to a new report released on , produced by UN Women’s ACT to End Violence against Women programme.
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14/12/2025
‘Human Rights. Underfunded. Undermined. Under attack. And Yet. Powerful. Undeterred. Mobilizing’
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, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights*
10 December 2025 (OHCHR)* — Human rights are underfunded, undermined and under attack. And yet. Powerful. Undeterred. Mobilizing.
UN Photo/Mark Garten | Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, in an interview with UN News.
This year no doubt has been a difficult one. And one full of dangerous contradictions. Funding for human rights has been slashed, while anti-rights movements are increasingly well-funded.
Profits for the arms industry are soaring, while funding for humanitarian aid and grassroots civil society plummets.
Those defending rights and justice are attacked, sanctioned and hauled before courts, even as those ordering the commission of atrocity crimes continue to enjoy impunity.
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12/12/2025
Traditional Medicine Use Is Now a Global Reality: World Health Organization
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(UN News)* — The vast majority of World Health Organization (WHO) member States say 40 to 90 per cent of their populations now use traditional medicine.
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11/12/2025
Age Restrictions Alone Won’t Keep Children Safe Online
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Statement by UNICEF as countries move to introduce social media bans for children.
NEW YORK, 10 December 2025 (UNICEF)* – “Across the globe, governments are debating how young is “too young” to use social media, with some introducing age-related restrictions across platforms.
“These restrictions reflect genuine concern: children are facing bullying, exploitation, and exposure to harmful content online with negative impacts on their mental health and well-being. The status quo is failing children and overwhelming families.
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11/12/2025
World News in Brief: Gaza Winter Storm; $7 Billion UNICEF Appeal, Support for Emergency Response Fund
30/11/2025
‘Contemporary forms of slavery are perpetuated by crime rings that prey on people struggling to cope with extreme poverty, discrimination or environmental degradation…’
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By António Guterres, the UN Secretary General*
Slavery is a horror from the history books – and a relentless contemporary crisis.
On the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery (2 December 2025), we remember past victims, especially the more than 15 million men, women and children across Africa who were seized, shackled and sold into bondage an ocean away – or perished en route.
We recall the painful scars their enslavement left on our societies, including structural inequalities and systemic injustices that have persisted for generations.
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30/11/2025
“Anyone a Victim”, a Global Campaign for a Stronger Action to Prevent Human Trafficking and Expand Support for Survivors
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By the International Organization for Migration*
Geneva, 24 November 2025 – The United Nations’ International Organization for Migration (IOM) has launched Anyone a Victim, a global campaign that calls for stronger action to prevent human trafficking and expand support for survivors.
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27/11/2025
Aid Access and Hospital Operations Remain Constrained in Gaza; More than 16,500 Patients Still Require Urgent Medical Evacuation
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(UN News)* — Aid deliveries into Gaza continue to face difficulties as fighting continues across the territory, with the UN warning that most hospitals are only partially functioning and more than 16,500 patients still require urgent medical evacuation.
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21/11/2025
Nobel Peace Laureate María Corina Machado Offers to Sell $1.7 Trillion of Venezuela’s Assets to US Corporations
Human Wrongs Watch
By Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service*
The far-right Venezuelan coup leader vowed “massive privatization.”
13 Nov 2025 – María Corina Machado is a far-right Venezuelan coup leader who has been funded by the US government since at least 2003.
The Donald Trump administration is waging war on Venezuela, and if it can succeed in overthrowing the leftist government of President Nicolás Maduro, Machado would help to lead the new pro-US regime in Caracas.
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