As the world looks away, women suffer in silence
Stories & Blogs OCHA (News )Donors’ brutal funding cuts to humanitarian aid are having a devastating impact on programmes that specifically support women and girls at risk of gender-based violence.
Sudan: Drone strikes must be investigated
Stories & Blogs OHCHR (Press Release )The deadly aerial strike this week on a UN humanitarian convoy in Al Koma, North Darfur, clearly undermines access by civilians to assistance and violates the international humanitarian law prohibition of attacks against humanitarian personnel and objects
Libya: Sites of gross human rights violations must be sealed and impartially investigated - Türk
Stories & Blogs OHCHR (Press Release )UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk said on Wednesday he was shocked by revelations of gross human rights violations uncovered at official and unofficial detention facilities run by the Stabilization Support Apparatus (SSA) force in Tripoli.
“We have no one else.” Families on the brink in Nigeria’s worst hunger crisis in five years.
Stories & Blogs OCHA (News )Without adequate assistance, at least 280,000 severely malnourished children are at a high risk of death during this year’s lean season.
Reparatory justice in the age of Artificial Intelligence
Stories & Blogs OHCHR (Story )The overarching theme of the 2025 session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent was “Africa and people of African descent: United for reparatory justice in the age of Artificial Intelligence,”
Sudan: UN expert calls for end to attacks on critical civilian infrastructure amidst intensifying drone strikes.
Stories & Blogs OHCHR (Press Release )The designated Expert on human rights in Sudan of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, expressed deep concern at the recent intensification of drone strikes and the expansion of the conflict to Red Sea state in eastern Sudan.
Malawi: Safe spaces nurture drought-affected women and girls.
Stories & Blogs OCHA (News )"I am happy I was able to return to school after giving birth," said Thokozani, 20, from Balaka district, southern Malawi.
Sudanese aid worker: “It feels like someone turned off the light on us”
Stories & Blogs OCHA (News )When the world stops looking, we stop living,” Mokhtar said.
Mali: UN experts outraged by reports of summary executions and enforced disappearances
Stories & Blogs OHCHR (Press Release )UN experts today expressed outrage at the alleged summary execution of several dozen people in Mali, as well as the enforced disappearance of others.