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Most Gaza families survive on one meal a day. Adults are routinely skipping meals in order to leave more for children, the elderly and the ill.
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27/06/2025
‘Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are increasingly being subjected to forced displacement and land seizures’
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UN human rights office sounds the alarm over forced displacement in the West Bank
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26/06/2025
$1 Towards a Girl’s Education = $3 for the Global Economy: That’s How Development Works
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By Antonio Lafuente, UN News*
— Helping those with less isn’t charity – it’s a shared investment in a better future. Yet global development financing is under strain. An upcoming UN conference in Sevilla, Spain, aims to change that by mobilizing large-scale investment for a more just and sustainable world.
© UNICEF/Roger Yebuah | Girls give the thumbs-up at a school in Ghana.
Every dollar invested in girls’ education yields an average return of $2.80 – translating into billions in additional GDP.
Similarly, each dollar spent on water and sanitation saves $4.30 in healthcare costs.
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26/06/2025
‘The world needs an extra $4 trillion every year to tackle some of the biggest challenges – ending poverty and hunger, fighting climate change, and reducing inequality’
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© UNICEF/ Frank Dejongh | Children plant flowers in a playground in N’Djamena, Chad as part of an education project.
These are part of 17 goals agreed by nearly every country, called the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The plan is to hit these targets by 2030.
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26/06/2025
Iran— Deja Vu All Over Again
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PhD, President of Conscience International
– Chest thumping “Mission Accomplished” claims by President Trump that he ordered the world’s biggest conventional bombs to be dropped on a sleeping nation of 90 million people, were premature.
IAEA chief Rafael Grossi said Iran has reported no increase in radiation levels outside Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz nuclear sites. After surprise US bombing raids on Iranian uranium enrichment facilities over the weekend, the head of the UN-backed nuclear watchdog on Monday appealed for immediate access to the targeted sites to assess the damage that is likely “very significant”. 23 June 2025. Credit: Dean Calma/IAEA
To top it off he bragged that Iran’s nuclear capacity was devastated and that the whole nation fired “not a single shot” back.
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25/06/2025
‘Asia Is Warming at Twice the Global Average, Marine Heatwaves Worst on Record, Floods and Droughts Destroyed Lives and Livelihoods’
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By the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)*
23 June 2025 — Asia is currently warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, fuelling more extreme weather and wreaking a heavy toll on the region’s economies, ecosystems and societies, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
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The WMO’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report says that 2024 was the warmest or second warmest year on record (depending on the dataset), with widespread and prolonged heatwaves.
21/06/2025
From Uganda to Angola, Africa’s Refugees Face Soaring Hunger, Shrinking Aid
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By the World Food Programme (WFP)*
A funding shortfall is forcing WFP and other humanitarian organizations to cut assistance to some of the world’s most vulnerable people
— Omnia and her young son stand in line under a harsh midday sun, waiting for the daily hot lunch for newcomers at Uganda’s Kiryandongo refugee settlement.
Exhaustion is etched on the face of this single mother, who arrived by bus from war-torn Sudan the day before.
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20/06/2025
Gaza: As Last Fuel Supplies Run Out, Aid Teams Warn of Catastrophe – ‘Vital Services Are Only “Hours Away” from Shutting Down’
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(UN News)* — More than 100 days into Israel’s complete fuel blockade in Gaza, UN agencies still in the shattered enclave warned on Thursday that vital services are only “hours away” from shutting down.
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19/06/2025
UN Human Rights ‘Horrified’ by Deadly Violence at Gaza Food Distribution Sites
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(UN News)* — As the pall of starvation hangs over Gaza, UN agencies have sounded the alarm over deadly violence at food distribution points, where over 400 Palestinians have reportedly been killed in recent weeks while trying to access desperately needed humanitarian aid.
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19/06/2025
‘Sexual violence is a grotesque tactic of war, used to brutalize, torture, and repress, scarring bodies, minds and entire communities’
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(United Nations)* — “Sexual violence is a grotesque tactic of war, used to brutalize, torture, and repress, scarring bodies, minds and entire communities, warned the UN Secretary General António Guterres on the occasion of the 19 June 2025 International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict.
A girl at the Mother and Child Health Center in Mogadishu, Somalia, visited by the UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict. PHOTO:UN/Tobin Jones
“The horror of these heinous crimes echoes long after the guns fall silent.
Too often, perpetrators walk free, cloaked in impunity, while survivors often bear the impossible burden of stigma and trauma.
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