News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 3 from 88)
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Israeli military operations and surging settler attacks in the occupied West Bank are killing and maiming a growing number of Palestinian children, while in Gaza tens of thousands with life-changing injuries lack access to treatment and rehabilitation, UN agencies warned on Tuesday.
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Children are paying an intolerable price for escalating militarised operations and settler attacks across the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, says UNICEF.
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UN human rights chief Volker TĂŒrk on Monday praised Mongoliaâs recent human rights progress during a visit to the country, which recently adopted the regionâs first law protecting human rights defenders.
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More than 150,000 people have been affected by Tropical Cyclone Maila, the latest storm in the Pacific area, which continues to drive what the UN relief coordination office OCHA has described as âsignificant humanitarian needsâ across the Solomon Islands.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has verified more than 3,000 attacks on healthcare in Ukraine since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022, the UN agency reported on Friday.
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The fragile ceasefire in Lebanon hasnât prevented âongoing killing and displacementâ, with villages in the south of the country rendered completely unrecognizable after Israeli strikes, aid teams reported on Friday.
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âThis is not a distant warning. This is a crisis that is unfolding right now and it's deepening quickly.â
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Haiti continues to face escalating violence and deepening insecurity, with gangs expanding their reach beyond Port-au-Prince and civilians increasingly caught between armed groups and security operations.
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The Central African Republic (CAR) is making progress towards stability and security but major aid budget cuts threaten humanitarian operations there, a senior official with the UN aid coordination office OCHA said on Friday in New York.
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Despite a ceasefire taking effect on 17 April, 25 women have been reported killed and 109 reported injured over the past three weeks, highlighting the continued danger women and girls face.
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The RCRC Movement urges all parties to the conflict to uphold their obligations under IHL, alleviating civilian suffering and fostering the path toward a peaceful future for South Sudan.
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In Somaliaâs Puntland region, dried out watering holes, animal carcasses and old pots filled with ash have become part of the landscape as worsening drought conditions deepen a growing hunger crisis.
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An Israeli airstrike overnight on the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut has sparked a new wave of displacement among civilians already impacted by months of conflict, the United Nations said on Thursday.
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Death and destruction have continued unabated in Lebanon while communities are still unable to return to their homes despite a ceasefire that began on 17 April, humanitarians said on Tuesday.
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Renewed violence in Ituri, north-eastern DRC, has driven displacement and rising civilian injuries, with MSF treating thousands in Fataki since February 2026 amid an insufficient wider response.
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The UN has formally concluded its cross-border humanitarian operations from TĂŒrkiye into Syria, marking the end of an 11-year mission that served as one of the most complex supply chains in the organizationâs history.
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Concern is mounting over the health of imprisoned Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, who was reportedly being held alongside high-risk offenders.
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For the first time in the history of the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) World Press Freedom Index, over half of the worldâs countries now fall into the âdifficultâ or âvery seriousâ categories.
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Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi has been transferred from prison to house arrest, with her sentence reduced under a prisoner amnesty linked to a Buddhist holiday.
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As of 28 April, more than 34,600 suspected cases have been reported and more than 200 deaths confirmed from the disease. The risk of rapid transmission is acute in overcrowded Cox's Bazar.
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Afghans still remain the largest group arriving in Europe through the Balkans. Under pressure from EU member states to crack down on irregular migration, Afghans are among those being sent back home.
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The analysis reveals that 1.24 million people â nearly one in four of the population analysed â are expected to face food insecurity levels classified as Crisis or worse, between April and August.
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Twenty years after the conflict in Darfur first sparked global outrage, children in the region are once again trapped in a catastrophic cycle of violence, hunger, and displacement â but this time, the world is failing to take notice.
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Conflict and displacement are intensifying South Sudanâs hunger crisis, with 7.8 million people facing high levels of acute food insecurity while 2.2 million children are suffering from acute malnutrition, according to a joint statement on Tuesday from UN agencies.
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As in 2005, homes have been burned, markets attacked, schools and health facilities destroyed and families forced to flee â but today the needs are greater and the global outrage far more constrained.
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Save the Children reveals how the collapse of funding to Somalia in 2025 may soon lead to catastrophic outcomes for children not seen since the 2011 famine, which killed more than 257,000 people.
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Nearly 7.5 million children across the Central Sahel region in Africa are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance â âan emergency that remains too far from the attention of the international community,â a senior official with the UN child rights agency UNICEF has said.
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The United Nations has condemned two recent drone attacks in Sudan, one of which left seven dead, Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said on Monday during his regular media briefing in New York.
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âAs the lean season begins, women and girls are already reporting eating wild plants to survive, with some going days without anything to eat. We are already seeing an increase in malnutrition."
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There are reports of continuing clashes in Mali on Sunday, a day after a series of coordinated attacks across the landlocked African nation against Government forces by extremists and northern separatist rebels.