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As millions around the world start observing the holy month of Ramadan, sadly in Gaza and across the region, many will mark this month facing conflict, displacement and fear.
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News in Brief 11 March 2024

News in Brief
  • Gaza: Ceasefire now, urges UN Secretary-General on first day of Ramadan
  • Syria in grip of violence not seen in years, warn top rights experts
  • Truth and justice call for disappeared Thai lawyer 

 

 

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UNHCR staff carry out a needs assessment with some of those arriving to Namapa, in Nampula province, after fleeing recent attacks by non-state armed groups in Cabo Delgado.
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News in Brief 8 March 2024

News in Brief
  • Marking International Women’s Day, UN chief launches plan to tackle baked-in bias  
  • Rafah ground assault would increase risk of atrocity crimes  
  • Mozambique: Thousands displaced over fear of violence 

 

 

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Arlene (left) takes every opportunity to include her mother in her walks along the beach in Belle Garden, Tobago.
© WHO/Alasdair Bell

News in Brief 4 March 2024

News in Brief
  • Gaza: Gaza conflict could fuel much wider Middle East ‘conflagration’, warns UN rights chief
  • Türk: ‘Mega election year’ 2024 could be a landmark for democracy: 
  • Pacific accounts for nine in 10 most obese countries in the world (WHO) 
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Conditions across the Gaza Strip are deteriorating as the conflict continues.
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News in Brief 1 March 2024

News in Brief
  • Gaza: Worst famine fears realized as 10th child reportedly starves to death
  • Myanmar crisis now a never-ending nightmare, warns UN rights chief
  • Sudan’s displaced in desperate need of basics to survive: UNHCR 
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A man holding a baby walks amid the rubble of his destroyed neighbourhood in Gaza.
© UNRWA/Ashraf Amra

News in Brief 29 February 2024

News in Brief
  • ‘Carnage’ in Gaza must end, UN rights chief tells Human Rights Council
  • Risks from climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss are real
  • UN chief “committed” to Sudan as UNITAMS mission ends
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3'52"
A man cooks food for his children over a wood fire in front of his destroyed home in al-Rimal neighuborhood, west of Gaza City.
© UNICEF/Omar Al-Qattaa

News in Brief 28 February 2024

News in Brief
  • Gaza: Famine imminent without more aid relief, warn UN humanitarians 
  • All parties to Gaza crisis may have committed war crimes: UN rights chief 
  • Aid agencies underscore need to help Ethiopians brought low by climate, war and disease 
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4'7"