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Daily Wrap 23 September 2024

Dramatic uptick in violence as Guterres voices grave alarm at Lebanon-Israel escalation Tensions continued to ratchet up in the Middle East on Monday with reports of hundreds of retaliatory Israeli strikes on Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon which have reportedly left nearly 300 dead, and strikes in Gaza including on a refugee camp, UN humanitarians said. Read more Peace and Security Afghanistan: No future without women's participation Afghan women earned the right to vote more than a century ago. Today, under Taliban rule, they are practically erased from public life and even banned from singing.  Read more Women Torture 'a common and acceptable practice' in Ukraine war, UN investigators say Russian authorities are using torture "with a sense of impunity" in the ongoing war in Ukraine, the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva heard on Monday.  Read more Human Rights World News in Brief: 1.3 billion teens suffering mental disorders, Russia's Indigenous Peoples face 'extinction', Belarus rights update At least one in seven youngsters has a mental disorder. That's the warning from the UN World Health Organization (WHO), which has appealed for much greater investment to help almost 1.3 billion teenagers globally. Read more Health

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