Three-quarters of children and young people aged 14 to 34 recently reported needing emotional or psychological support NEW YORK/GENEVA/KYIV, 23 February 2024 – Children in cities in Ukraine’s...
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Russia-Ukraine international armed conflict: 23,000 people reported missing [EN/AR/RU/DE]
Geneva (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is seeking to clarify the fate of 23,000 persons whose families have no news of them, either because they have been captured,...
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Ukraine: Two years on, IFRC warns of increasing debt creating unstable futures for millions [EN/AR]
Geneva / Budapest / Kyiv 16 February 2024 -- Two years since the Russia-Ukraine international armed conflict escalated, the human cost is insurmountable, with no end in sight. Not only have many lost...
‘Our City Was Gone’: Russia’s Devastation of Mariupol, Ukraine [EN/AR/ZH/DE/HI/PT/RU/UK]
Ukraine: New Findings on Russia’s Devastation of Mariupol War Crimes Inquiry Needed into Massive Loss of Civilian Life, Infrastructure The Russian assault on the Ukrainian city of Mariupol in 2022...
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Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict (A/HRC/55/57) [EN/AR/RU/ZH]
Human Rights Council Fifty-fifth session 26 February–5 April 2024 Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the...
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Global Rights Crises Deepen as World Leaders Shy Away [EN/AR/ZH/DE/JA/PT/RU]
Principled Diplomacy Critical to Uphold Human Rights Framework (New York) – Global leaders have failed to take strong stands to protect human rights during 2023, a year of some of the worst crises...
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Global Economic Prospects - January 2024 [EN/AR/RU/ZH]
Global Economy Set for Weakest Half-Decade Performance in 30 Years Reforms to boost investment and strengthen fiscal policy could help turn the tide WASHINGTON, Jan. 9, 2024 — As the world nears the...
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UNICEF appeals for US$9.3 billion emergency funding for children living through conflicts and crises in an increasingly hostile world [EN/AR]
The funds will provide essential programs for over 93.7 million children worldwide affected by conflict, disasters, and climate crises GENEVA/NEW YORK, 12 December 2023 – In response to an alarming...
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Global Humanitarian Overview 2024: UN launches $46 billion appeal for 2024 as global humanitarian outlook remains bleak [EN/AR]
• Conflicts, climate emergencies and collapsing economies are wreaking havoc in communities around the world. Nearly 181 million people in 72 countries are targeted to receive humanitarian aid and...
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Global Humanitarian Overview 2024 [EN/AR/FR/ES]
PEOPLE IN NEED 299.4 M PEOPLE TARGETED 180.5 M REQUIREMENTS (US$) $ 46.4 B APPEALS 35 In 2024, nearly 300 million people around the world will need humanitarian assistance and protection, due to...
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Slovakia: Cash Joint Communication Channels Information - December 2023 [EN/SK/UK/AR/RU]
In order to support the refugee community in Slovakia, the Agencies of the Cash Working Group created this poster including all the necessary information on communication channels. In case you have...
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Landmine Monitor 2023 [EN/AR]
DOWNLOAD THE REPORT HERE High numbers of civilian landmine casualties in Ukraine, Myanmar, Syria, Yemen - Annual Monitor report charts marked increase in mine action funding Geneva, 14 November 2023...
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UNHCR: Forced displacement continues to grow as conflicts escalate [EN/AR]
War and violence drove global displacement to an estimated 114 million by the end of September 2023. GENEVA - The number of people displaced by war, persecution, violence and human rights violations...
Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine (A/78/540) [EN/AR/RU/ZH]
Seventy-eighth session Agenda item 73 (c) Promotion and protection of human rights: human rights situations and reports of special rapporteurs and representatives Summary The present report is...
Situation of human rights in the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine - Report of the Secretary-General (A/78/340) [EN/AR/RU/ZH]
Seventy-eighth session Item 73 (b) of the provisional agenda* Promotion and protection of human rights: human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment...
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UNHCR Education Report 2023 - Unlocking Potential: The Right to Education and Opportunity [EN/AR]
New UNHCR report reveals over 7 million refugee children out of school GENEVA – More than half of the world’s 14.8 million school-aged refugee children are currently missing out on formal education,...
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Assistance in mine action - Report of the Secretary-General (A/78/259) [EN/AR/RU/ZH]
Seventy-eighth session Item 47 of the provisional agenda* Assistance in mine action I. Introduction 1. The present report, covering the period from August 2021 to July 2023, is submitted pursuant to...
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Note on international protection - Note by the High Commissioner (A/AC.96/74/3) [EN/AR/RU/ZH]
Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme Seventy-fourth session 9–13 October 2023 Item 4 (a) of the provisional agenda Consideration of reports of the Standing Committee International...
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Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict (A/78/247) [EN/AR/RU/ZH]
Seventy-eighth session Item 69 of the provisional agenda Promotion and protection of the rights of children Summary The present report is submitted to the General Assembly pursuant to its resolution...
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20 years after deadly attack on UN in Iraq, humanitarian workers remain committed to help, #NoMatterWhat, despite growing risks [EN/AR/RU/ZH]
(New York, 17 August 2023): Ahead of World Humanitarian Day on 19 August, the United Nations today warned that 2023 is set to become another year of high numbers of aid worker casualties. So far this...