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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.

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

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

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 

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

Amid Gaza war, kids now work so families can survive: UN labour agency ‘Unimaginable trauma’ haunts Sudan’s displaced while violence, famine threaten millionsClimate change impacts on health of pregnant women, children, older people