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World News in Brief: Executions surge in Iran, nuclear test threat, Burkina Faso declares top official unwelcome

August 31, 2025 Village Reporterhuman rights

In Iran, the increase in executions carried out this year indicates that the death penalty is being used as a tool of State intimidation, the UN human rights office (OHCHR) said on Friday. Source UN News Read More

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‘Our livelihoods have been cut off’, say West Bank farmers ahead of olive harvest

August 30, 2025 Village Reporterhuman rights

In the occupied West Bank village of Kufr Qaddum, *Yousef stands behind a sealed iron gate, cut off from the olive trees that have sustained his family for generations. Source UN News Read More

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Despite Taliban ban, over 90 per cent of Afghans support girls’ right to learn

August 29, 2025 Village Reporterhuman rights

Despite the ongoing ban on girls’ secondary education, more than 90 per cent of Afghan adults support girls’ right to be in class, according to a new alert from the UN’s gender equality agency, UN Women. Source UN News Read More

WHO, WMO issue new report and guidance to protect workers from increasing heat stress

August 29, 2025 Global AuthorHealth News

The WHO and WMO have released a comprehensive technical report and guidance addressing the escalating global health and economic risks posed by extreme heat, particularly in the workplace. This guidance builds on five decades of research and responds to the record-breaking temperatures of recent years, with 2023 being the hottest year on record.Source WHO Read More

IPC Gaza Strip Food Insecurity and Malnutrition Alert

August 29, 2025 Global AuthorHealth News

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), of which WHO is a member, today issued a Food Insecurity and Malnutrition Alert for the Gaza Strip. The details are as noted below. Key highlights The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) has issued a stark warning today that the worst-case scenario of Famine is now unfolding in the Gaza Strip. Amid relentless… Read More

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Killing of journalists in Gaza hospital attack ‘should shock the world’: UN rights office

August 27, 2025 Village Reporterhuman rights

The killing of five more Palestinian journalists in Gaza by Israeli forces – bringing the total killed overall to 247 since the war began – should shock the world into action, the UN human rights office said on Tuesday. Source UN News Read More

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World News in Brief: More deaths in Ukraine, lengthy detentions in Egypt, AI governance, US postal tariffs

August 26, 2025 Village Reporterhuman rights

More civilians have been killed and injured in Ukraine following recent hostilities and attacks across the country, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Tuesday in an update. Source UN News Read More

WHO operations compromised following attacks on warehouse and facility sheltering staff and families in Deir al Balah, Gaza

August 26, 2025 Global AuthorHealth News

WHO condemns in the strongest terms the attacks on a building housing WHO staff in Deir al Balah in Gaza, the mistreatment of those sheltering there, and the destruction of its main warehouse. Following intensified hostilities in Deir al Balah after the latest evacuation order issued by Israeli military, the WHO staff residence was attacked three times today. Staff and… Read More

Paying tribute to David Nabarro

August 25, 2025 Global Author

Tribute to Dr David NabarroSource WHO Read More

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International Day for Remembrance of Slave Trade: ‘Time to abolish exploitation once and for all’

August 24, 2025 Village Reporterhuman rights

Victims of atrocities and freedom fighters across history can inspire future generations to build just societies,the chief of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said on the occasion of the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, commemorated annually on 23 August. Source UN News Read More

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World News in Brief: Executions surge in Iran, nuclear test threat, Burkina Faso declares top official unwelcome

‘Our livelihoods have been cut off’, say West Bank farmers ahead of olive harvest

Despite Taliban ban, over 90 per cent of Afghans support girls’ right to learn

WHO, WMO issue new report and guidance to protect workers from increasing heat stress

IPC Gaza Strip Food Insecurity and Malnutrition Alert

Killing of journalists in Gaza hospital attack ‘should shock the world’: UN rights office

World News in Brief: More deaths in Ukraine, lengthy detentions in Egypt, AI governance, US postal tariffs

WHO operations compromised following attacks on warehouse and facility sheltering staff and families in Deir al Balah, Gaza

Paying tribute to David Nabarro

International Day for Remembrance of Slave Trade: ‘Time to abolish exploitation once and for all’