Gaza fighting further compromises aid amid near ‘apocalyptic’ conditionsUN warns of humanitarian emergency as 500,000 risk lives in the DarienOver three in four people in Africa can’t afford healthy food

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Top UN official in Ukraine warns daily life becoming harder for ci lead to more suffering and a difficult life for civilians there. ‘Transnational’ FGM undermined by the practice of travelling across national borders and beyond to have the procedure performed on girls.Human rights report in Ethiopia reveals a 56 per cent human violations increase since 2022.

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Gaza: Malnourished children ‘dying before their families’ eyes’ Worldwide levels of forced displacement hit new high: UNHCR Africa not spending enough on quality education for children: UNICEF

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Guterres hails 60 years of UN trade and development actionGaza: Hamas and Israel carried out war crimes, says top independent rights probeKharkiv: amid destruction, thousands more evacuated from frontline villages: UNHCR, UNECE, UNEP

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Yemen: UN chief demands release of aid workers held by Houthi forces Gaza: ‘high time’ ceasefire and hostage release, says Guterres 49 migrants dead and 140 missing in shipwreck off Yemen coast: IOM 

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Sudan crisis: UN health agency alerts over attack on key hospital Rights abuses against civilians still rampant in eastern DR Congo Almost all women in Gaza say families struggling to survive: UN Women

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