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Children queue for food at a community kitchen in Deir al Balah, Gaza, prior to the ceasefire agreement.
On International Day of Solidarity, UN urges greater support and aid for Palestinians

For over two years, tens of thousands of people have been killed in Gaza. The enclave faces its most severe economic collapse in history, and even amid a fragile ceasefire, children continue to die.  

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Human Rights
Nazhat Shameem Khan, Deputy Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC); briefs the UN Security Council meeting on the situation in Libya.
World News in Brief: Justice efforts in Libya, deadly attacks in Ukraine, scores killed since Israel-Lebanon ceasefire

Recent months have seen progress towards accountability in Libya, the Deputy Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) said on Tuesday in a briefing to the UN Security Council.

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Law and Crime Prevention
Women demonstrate against gender-based violence committed by men.
Violence against women: UN sheds light on global femicide crisis, digital abuse

For three years, thousands of angry messages poured into American actress Azie Tesfai's phone from a man she'd never seen nor met.

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Women
A food market in northern Nigeria.
Nigeria: Hundreds abducted in the north as insurgent attacks rise

Authorities in Nigeria are being urged to investigate the wave of abductions in the West African country, where attacks by insurgent groups are increasing. 

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Human Rights
Femicide is being described as a 'global epidemic.'
Why a woman is killed every 10 minutes; the rising wave of global femicide

Every 10 minutes, partners and family members killed a woman intentionally in 2024 and that trend is growing, according to the UN. 

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Women
A young woman in Uzbekistan living with HIV since childhood takes medication.
Global HIV response facing worst setback in decades, UNAIDS warns

The global response to HIV is facing its most serious setback in decades, UNAIDS warned on Tuesday, as abrupt funding cuts and a deteriorating human rights environment disrupt prevention and treatment services across dozens of countries.

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Health
One of the thematic days of the 21st UNIDO General Conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is empowering women.
Despite ongoing discrimination, women entrepreneurs are reshaping the Global South, with crucial support from the UN 

Exceptional women business leaders such as African engineer-turned-entrepreneur Norah Magero are demonstrating how lived experience and ingenuity, backed by United Nations support, can turn promising ideas into successful companies, even in societies where their voices have long been sidelined. 

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Economic Development
Women in Gaza receive aid from international organizations including the UN.
Gaza women are 'last line of protection' for their families amid attacks, hunger and harsh winter

Women in Gaza are ensuring their families' survival "with nothing but courage and exhausted hands" while violence continues and essentials remain in short supply, the UN's gender equality agency warned on Tuesday.

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Women
People walk through a destroyed neighbourhood of Gaza City.
Gaza facing worst economic collapse ever recorded, UN trade agency warns

The Occupied Palestinian Territory is now in its deepest economic crisis ever recorded, with Gaza suffering an "unprecedented and catastrophic" collapse, according to a new report from the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) presented in Geneva on Tuesday.

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Economic Development
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