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(UN News)* — The UN aid coordination office (OCHA) on Monday [] warned of a deepening crisis in Sudan’s North Darfur as violence spreads beyond the city of El Fasher.
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10/11/2025
UN Refugee Agency’s Report Reveals Extreme Weather Driving Repeated Displacement among Conflict-affected Communities
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By the UN Refugee Agency*
BELÉM, BRAZIL – Millions of refugees, people forced to flee, and their hosts are trapped in an increasingly vicious cycle of conflict and climate extremes, according to a new report released on 10 November 2025 by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.
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The report warns that climate shocks are undermining chances of recovery, increasing humanitarian needs, and amplifying the risks of repeated displacement.
By mid-2025, 117 million people had been displaced by war, violence and persecution. Three in four of them are living in countries facing high-to-extreme exposure to climate-related hazards.
08/11/2025
‘Worrying Reports’ Continue of Abductions and Disappearances in Syria
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(UN News)* — Nearly 100 people in Syria have been abducted or forcibly disappeared since January, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Friday [], calling for greater accountability from the authorities.
“Eleven months after the fall of the former government in Syria, we continue to receive worrying reports about dozens of abductions and enforced disappearances,” Spokesperson Thameen Al-Keetan said at a press briefing in Geneva.
Syria is undergoing a political transition following the overthrow of the Assad regime in December 2024 and 13 years of brutal civil war.
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08/11/2025
DR Congo Hunger Crisis Worsening amid Fighting and Lack of Aid Funding
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(UN News)* — The crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues to worsen amid ongoing fighting that has driven tens of thousands of people from their homes and created acute hunger, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday [].
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08/11/2025
UN Human Rights Chief Warns ‘Abominable Atrocities’ Likely Continue in Sudan’s El Fasher
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(UN News)* — Warnings of worsening humanitarian conditions in Sudan continue, despite reports of a ceasefire deal brokered by international mediators on Thursday [6].
“Today, traumatised civilians are still trapped inside El Fasher and are being prevented from leaving,” said UN human rights chief Volker Türk in a statement released on Friday.
“I fear that the abominable atrocities such as summary executions, rape and ethnically motivated violence are continuing within the city.”
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07/11/2025
UN Chief Urges World Leaders to Drive Down Global Warming
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(UN News)* — As world leaders gather in Brazil for the COP30 climate summit, UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday ] called for urgent action to drive down global temperatures and keep the 1.5°C goal within reach.
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07/11/2025
Battlefields to Wastelands: UN Warns Conflicts Are Destroying Ecosystems Worldwide
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(UN News)* — From Gaza to Ukraine and beyond, conflict has caused widespread death and destruction, but it has also devastated natural resources such as water systems, farmland and forests.
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05/11/2025
When Sovereignty Becomes a Threat
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By Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service*
For decades, the United States has punished nations that dared to act independently. From Venezuela to the Sahel, a new generation is rejecting the old empire’s script.
The mask has fallen. In a moment of verbal violence reminiscent of an old western, U.S. president Donald Trump openly called for the “removal” of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, accusing Venezuela of “threatening American interests, or supporting drug cartels.”
Let us be clear: this is not mere rhetoric. It is an explicit call for the murder of a sovereign head of state—a flagrant violation of international law.
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04/11/2025
‘The Environment Has Often Remained the Unpublicized Victim of War’
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By the United Nations*
A Nepalese peacekeeper with the African Union-UN Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) plants a tree outside UNAMID Headquarters in El Fasher, Sudan. PHOTO:UN Photo/Albert Gonzalez Farran
Furthermore, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has found that over the last 60 years, at least 40 percent of all internal conflicts have been linked to the exploitation of natural resources, whether high-value resources such as timber, diamonds, gold and oil, or scarce resources such as fertile land and water.
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02/11/2025
As Civil Society Is Silenced, Corruption and Inequality Rise
Human Wrongs Watch
– From the streets of Bangkok to power corridors in Washington, the civil society space for dissent is fast shrinking.
Mandeep Tiwana, Secretary General, CIVICUS Global Alliance. Credit: CIVICUS
Authoritarian regimes are silencing opposition but indirectly fueling corruption and widening inequality, according to a leading global civil society alliance.
The warning is from Mandeep Tiwana, Secretary General of CIVICUS Global Alliance, who points to a troubling trend: civil society is increasingly considered a threat to those in power.
That is a sobering assessment from CIVICUS, which reports that a wave of repression by authoritarian regimes is directly fueling corruption and exploding inequality.
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