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25/12/2025
DR Congo: Displaced People in South Kivu Close to ‘Utter Desperation’: World Food Programme
24/12/2025
The World’s Right-Handed and Left-Handed Torturers
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– Jeanne Kirkpatrick, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, once made a highly debatable distinction between “friendly” right-wing “authoritarian” regimes (which were mostly U.S. and Western allies) and “unfriendly” left-wing “totalitarian” dictatorships (which the U.S. abhorred).
Tercer Piso. Source Amnesty International
Around the same time, successive U.S. administrations were cozying up to a rash of authoritarian regimes, mostly in the Middle East, widely accused of instituting emergency laws, detaining dissidents, cracking down on the press, torturing political prisoners and rigorously imposing death penalties.
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24/12/2025
Myanmar Elections Marked by Fear as UN Warns Civilians Are Coerced from All Sides
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By Vibhu Mishra
(UN News)* — As Myanmar approaches elections scheduled for 28 December, the UN’s top human rights official has said that civilians are being coerced from all sides – forced by the military to vote and threatened by armed opposition groups to boycott – in a climate of fear, violence and mass repression.
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23/12/2025
Myanmar’s Sham Election: Trump Legitimises Murderous Military Dictatorship
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– Myanmar is heading for an election, beginning on 28 December, that’s ostensibly an exercise in democracy – but it has clearly been designed with the aim of conferring more legitimacy on its military junta.
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Credit: Issei Kato/Reuters via Gallo Images
Almost five years after its February 2021 coup, the regime continues to fight pro-democracy forces and ethnic armed organisations, barely controlling a fifth of Myanmar’s territory.
The junta has acknowledged that voting won’t be possible in much of the country.
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19/12/2025
Killer Robots: The Terrifying Rise of Algorithmic Warfare
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– Machines with no conscience are making split-second decisions about who lives and who dies. This isn’t dystopian fiction; it’s today’s reality. In Gaza, algorithms have generated kill lists of up to 37,000 targets.
Credit: Annegret Hilse/Reuters via Gallo Images
Autonomous weapons are also being deployed in Ukraine and were on show at a recent military parade in China. States are racing to integrate them in their arsenals, convinced they’ll maintain control. If they’re wrong, the consequences could be catastrophic.
Unlike remotely piloted drones where a human operator pulls the trigger, autonomous weapons make lethal decisions.
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19/12/2025
Refugees Forced to Fill Gaps as Funding, Power and Legal Recognition Move Out of Reach
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A new global synthesis report and refugee voices from East Africa and the Middle East warn that reductions in humanitarian footprints risks breaking the refugee protection system.
Sahrawi refugees walk near the Awserd Refugee Camp in the Tindouf Province of Algeria. Credit: UN Photo/Evan Schneider
– The global refugee system is entering a period of deep strain. The delivery of protection and assistance is undergoing a transformation due to funding cuts, institutional reforms, and shifting donor priorities.
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15/12/2025
Unaffordable Health Costs? We’re Sick of It!
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By the United Nations*
More than half the world’s population still lacks access to essential health services..And a quarter of them face financial hardship when paying for health care out of their own pockets, often at the expense of food, education or housing..
International Universal Health Coverage Day, 12 December
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Girl visiting pediatrician. | PHOTO:WHO
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On 12 December 2012, the United Nations General Assembly endorsed a resolution urging countries to accelerate progress toward universal health coverage (UHC) – the idea that everyone, everywhere should have access to quality, affordable health care.
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15/12/2025
2026: Millions in Need Will Not Get Aid Unless Global Solidarity Revived
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By the Norwegian Refugee Council*
Statement by Maureen Magee, Global Director of Field Operations, at the Norwegian Refugee Council, commenting on the Global Humanitarian Overview (GHO) for 2026:
“2026 is set to stretch humanitarian responses to their limit as they seek to support people with the most severe needs around the world.
“Next year, 239 million people will be in need of humanitarian assistance and protection. Humanitarians are aiming to reach just over half of them.
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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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13/12/2025
Deep Concerns for Palestinians amid Intense Israeli Raids in Occupied West Bank
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(UN News)* — The UN human rights office, OHCHR, has expressed alarm at reports of a so-called “settler road” being built in the occupied West Bank.
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