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(UN News)* — A senior UN humanitarian official in Pakistan has warned that “the needs are huge” as massive floods across Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan continue to leave millions homeless, destroying vital crops and pushing fragile communities to the brink.
Damage to the water tank at the Maisat water pumping station. Credit: WaSH Sector Lebanon
A report published late last month (AUG) by Action Against Hunger, Insecurity Insight, and Oxfam said that at least 150,000 people remain without running water across the south of Lebanon after Israeli attacks had damaged and destroyed swathes of water sanitation and hygiene (WASH) facilities since the beginning of the conflict in Lebanon.
Remarks by UNICEF Country Representative in Afghanistan, Dr. Tajudeen Oyewale, as delivered in the media briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
KABUL, 12 September 2025 (UNICEF)* – “Afghanistan is once again reeling from tragedy and children are at the sharp end of an aggravating crisis. We must respond not only with urgency, but with a commitment to immediately reverse it.
“They are bearing the heaviest burden after a powerful earthquake struck Kunar and Nangarhar provinces on 31 August, in the Eastern part of the country, followed by multiple severe aftershocks.“
The impact so far is devastating. At least 1,172 children have died, making more than half of the entire death toll. In addition, 45 children have been separated from their families, and 271 are newly orphaned.
(UN News)* — As bombs continue to fall on Gaza City as part of Israel’s intensifying military operation, families with starving children are being pushed southwards from one “hellscape” to another, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday [].
Speaking from the south of the enclave, UNICEF’s Tess Ingram described the forced mass displacement of families as a “deadly threat for the most vulnerable”.
“It is inhumane to expect nearly half a million children battered and traumatized by over 700 days of unrelenting conflict to flee one hellscape to end up in another,” she insisted.
Opinion polls show that the majority of the U.S. population holds positive views on immigration. Credit: Shutterstock.
The country in question is the United States, often referred to as “a nation of immigrants”, home to more immigrants than any other country worldwide, having received over 100 million immigrants since its founding in 1776.
Opinion polls show that the majority of the U.S. population holds positive views on immigration.
(UN News)* — “Underfunded, overstretched and under attack” is how the United Nation’s top aid official has referred to the UN and the support it is providing to the humanitarian sector.
The international community is currently dealing with multiple humanitarian crises across the world, including conflict-driven crises in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gaza, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine and Yemen.
Other crisis hotspots include Afghanistan, Haiti, Myanmar and the Sahel.
(UN News)* — Senior independent rights investigators appointed by the Human Rights Council alleged on Tuesday [] that Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute genocide, a charge flatly rejected by Tel Aviv.
“The Commission finds that Israel is responsible for the commission of genocide in Gaza,” insisted Navi Pillay, Chair of the Commission.
(UN News)* — Senior human rights investigators reporting to the UN Human Rights Council on alleged that sexual and gender-based violence by Israeli security forces against Palestinians – including children – have been increasingly used “as a method of war” following the 7 October 2023 attacks that sparked the Gaza war.
– When the high-level meeting of over 150 world political leaders takes place September 22-30, thousands of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and their accredited UN representatives will either be banned from the UN premises or permitted into the building on a strictly restricted basis– as it happens every year.
This year will not be an exception to the rule.
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) is a coalition of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in over 100 countries promoting adherence to, and implementation of, the United Nations nuclear weapons ban treaty. Credit: ICAN
Herat, Afghanistan, 12 September 2025 – At the Islam Qala border, the wind never rests. Dust stings the eyes and clings to skin as the 40–degree heat turns the ground into a furnace.
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As night falls, a mother holds her son’s hand as they walk past the truck that brought them from Islam Qala to IOM’s transit centre. Photo: IOM 2025/Mohammad Osman Azizi
Families squeeze into slivers of shade, children beside them shielding their faces with scarves as they wait for assistance. For many, this harsh landscape is their first glimpse of home after years away.
Since September 2023, more than four million Afghans have returned from Iran and Pakistan – over 1.5 million in 2025 alone.
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