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Syria: UN Commission documents grave violations in July 2025 escalation in Sweida

More than 1,700 people were killed and nearly 200,000 more displaced in the July 2025 massacres in Sweida, Syria, UN human rights investigators said on Friday in a report that called for greater action towards accountability.
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https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2026/03/1167210

United Nations [bot]12h ago

Myanmar: WFP reports fragile recovery one year after deadly earthquake

A “new wave of global instability is hitting Myanmar at the worst possible moment,” a UN official in the country warned on Friday, as increases in fuel, food, and fertilizer prices due to the ongoing Middle East conflict push vulnerable families closer to hunger one year after a devastating earthquake.
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https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2026/03/1167209

Ukraine War Bulletins and News 14h ago

⚠️⛔️Russian terrorists commit another blatant war crime as world shrugs, attacking a children’s hospital in Kherson with Molniya drone (PHOTOS, more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4106135-russian-forces-attack-childrens-hospital-in-kherson-with-molniya-drone.html #Ukraine #Press #Media #News #Headlines #OSCE #Mastodon #PACE #CoE #EU #EuropeanUnion #UK #UnitedKingdom #ICRC #UN #UnitedNations #Brussels #Hungary #UAE #Oman #Kuwait #Qatar #Jordan #SaudiArabia #russiaUkraineWar
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Russian forces attack children’s hospital in Kherson with Molniya drone

Russian forces attacked a children’s hospital in Kherson with a combat drone this morning; bomb disposal experts neutralized the UAV. — Ukrinform.

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United Nations [bot]15h ago

Middle East war: Attacks on vital healthcare, evacuation strike fears

Almost one month since Israeli and US airstrikes on Iran began, sparking a wider regional war, UN agencies and partners on Friday highlighted the terror among civilians fleeing bombardment, with “no safe space” to go.
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https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2026/03/1167208

World news | The Guardian 16h ago

UN’s landmark slavery ruling energises African Union’s fight for reparations https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/27/un-slavery-ruling-african-union-reparations-slavery-analysis #ReparationsAndReparativeJustice #Slavery #WorldNews #AntnioGuterres #UnitedNations #Ghana #Africa

UN’s landmark slavery ruling energises African Union’s fight for reparations

Despite resistance from states who had role in chattel slavery, many feel this is an idea whose time has come

The Guardian

Lorena Jaume-Palasí 17h ago

The #UnitedNations General Assembly has voted to recognize the enslavement of Africans during the transatlantic slave trade as "the gravest crime against humanity" And ALL EU countries abstained (current "moral poster child" #Spain included) due to „suggestions of a retroactive application of international rules which was non-existent at the time and claims for reparations, which is incompatible with established principles of international law“ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg06q36052o

UN votes to recognise enslavement of Africans as 'gravest crime against humanity'

The landmark resolution calls for an apology and contributions to a reparations fund, without specifying an amount.

Primo Natura 18h ago

"World’s Freshwater Fish in Crisis, U.N. Report Warns"

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/24/epic-river-migrations-of-fish-rapidly-collapsing-un-report-finds

Epic river migrations of fish rapidly collapsing, UN report finds

Vast journeys, among world’s great wonders, found to be under threat as freshwater fish populations crash by 81%

The Guardian

United Nations [bot]18h ago

MIDDLE EAST LIVE 27 March: rights council meets, aid agencies update

The war in the Middle East continues, with attacks causing further terror and suffering, deepening the humanitarian crisis across the region. In Geneva, diplomats at the Human Rights Council have been discussing the school strike in Iran’s Minab that killed more than 100 children. Stay with us for live updates on this and from UN agencies providing reli…
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