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• Eritrea: human rights situation remains dire, impunity is ‘complete’
• 2,000 shelters destroyed in Cox’s Bazar blaze – IOM 
• Peru: UN experts call for end to violence during demonstrations

• Myanmar: Tatmadaw’s ‘scorched earth’ policy in spotlight
• Iran urged to investigate allegations of school ‘poisonings’
• For first time, women represented in all parliaments worldwide

The Gambia, the smallest country on the African mainland, and one of the least developed countries in the world, has been going through a transition to full democracy since 2017, the end of a two-decade long dictatorship.

• Guterres calls for ‘a path out’ for Al-Hol detainees
• Ration cuts ‘a matter of life and death’ for Rohingya refugees
• Niger to sign key UN water security convention for Lake Chad

• UN’s Guterres heads to Iraq for first visit in 6 years  

• Lack of social protection for children seen all over the world

• Sustainable development can save world from ‘destructive spiral’: Türk   

• Refugee agency appeals for $137 million to help displaced in Horn of Africa
• Mozambique targets 720,000 in cholera vaccination drive: WHO
• Patent filings hit record high in 2022: WIPO

• Russia responsible for ‘widespread death and destruction’ in Ukraine
• UN seeks $4.3 billion to help 17 million most vulnerable Yemenis
• Italy shipwreck prompts call for safe, legal migration routes

• Ukraine: devastating year of conflict’s impact on children  

• Southern Africa cholera spike fears after Cyclone Freddy  

• Türkiye, Syria earthquake relief update  

It’s been a year since Russian forces invaded neighbouring Ukraine, the beginning of a conflict that led to the displacement of more than 14 million Ukrainians, and around 40 per cent of the population in need of humanitarian aid.