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Daily Wrap 13 March 2025

Sudan war: Children facing 'unimaginable suffering', warns UNICEF chief Sudan is now the world's largest and most devastating humanitarian crisis, the head of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned on Thursday. After two years of war, over 30 million people – more than half of them children – are living in the grip of mass atrocities, famine and deadly disease. Read more Peace and Security 'Brighter future hangs in the balance' in Syria after 14 years of war The Constitutional Declaration issued by Syria's caretaker authorities marks a pivotal moment in the country's turbulent transition, with UN Special Envoy Geir Pedersen expressing cautious optimism about its potential to fill a legal vacuum and pave the way for a "credible and inclusive political transition". Read more Peace and Security Conflict, hunger, poverty impede children's early development: Türk Governments everywhere are "letting children down instead of lifting them up" as conflict, hunger, poverty and climate change hold back child development, UN rights chief Volker Türk told Member States in Geneva on Thursday. Read more Human Rights UN chief hails Kyrgyz-Tajik border treaty breakthrough The UN Secretary-General warmly welcomed the presidential signing of the State Border Treaty by Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan on Thursday following decades-long negotiations. Read more Peace and Security Europe grapples with highest number of measles cases in more than 25 years Measles cases in Europe have doubled in just a year, with the highest number reported since 1997, UN agencies announced on Thursday. Read more Health Rights probe alleges sexual violence against Palestinians by Israeli forces used as 'method of war' Senior human rights investigators reporting to the UN Human Rights Council alleged on Thursday that sexual and gender-based violence by Israeli security forces against Palestinians – including children - have been increasingly used "as a method of war" following the 7 October 2023 attacks that sparked the Gaza war. Read more Human Rights

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