Newsletter from UN human rights organisation
Die Menschenrechte im Rahmen der Vereinten Nationen (UNO)
Bereits die Charta der Vereinten Nationen von 1945 enthält den klaren Auftrag an die Staatengemeinschaft, die Achtung und Verwirklichung der Menschenrechte und Grundrechte für alle zu fördern. Der Grundstein für den internationalen Schutz der Menschenrechte wurde mit der 1948 verabschiedeten Allgemeinen Erklärung der Menschenrechte gelegt.
Der Newsticker informiert über aktuelle Ereignisse zum Thema Menschenrechte.
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MIDDLE EAST LIVE 27 March: Humanitarian crisis deepens across the region
UN News - Global perspective Human stories Mar 27, 2026 | 13:00 pmThe war in the Middle East continues, with attacks causing further terror and suffering, deepening the humanitarian crisis across the region. The UN announced the launch of a task force to meet the immense needs. In Geneva, diplomats at the[…]
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Middle East war: Attacks on vital healthcare, evacuation strike fears
UN News - Global perspective Human stories Mar 27, 2026 | 13:00 pmAlmost one month since Israeli and US airstrikes on Iran began, sparking a wider regional war, UN agencies and partners on Friday highlighted the terror among civilians fleeing bombardment, with “no safe space” to go.
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Myanmar: WFP reports fragile recovery one year after deadly earthquake
UN News - Global perspective Human stories Mar 27, 2026 | 13:00 pmA “new wave of global instability is hitting Myanmar at the worst possible moment,” a UN official in the country warned on Friday, as increases in fuel, food, and fertilizer prices due to the ongoing Middle East conflict push vulnerable[…]
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Syria: UN Commission documents grave violations in July 2025 escalation in Sweida
UN News - Global perspective Human stories Mar 27, 2026 | 13:00 pmMore than 1,700 people were killed and nearly 200,000 more displaced in the July 2025 massacres in Sweida, Syria, UN human rights investigators said on Friday in a report that called for greater action towards accountability.
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Ukraine: danger is only increasing, warns UN human rights office
UN News - Global perspective Human stories Mar 26, 2026 | 13:00 pmMore than four years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the “danger is only increasing”, particularly from attack drones, a top UN human rights official warned on Thursday.
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World News in Brief, Cuba blockade hits healthcare, Haiti’s ‘vortex of violence’, deadly Djibouti shipwreck
UN News - Global perspective Human stories Mar 26, 2026 | 13:00 pmHospitals are just the latest vital public services to be hit in Cuba, more than a month since Washington took measures to block oil supplies from entering the Caribbean nation.
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DR Congo: violence intensifies as UN mission pledges continued support
UN News - Global perspective Human stories Mar 26, 2026 | 13:00 pmThe security and political situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) remains “extremely tense”, a senior UN official told the Security Council on Thursday.
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Persian Gulf crisis impacting food security, FAO warns
UN News - Global perspective Human stories Mar 26, 2026 | 13:00 pmThe intensifying conflict in the Persian Gulf “has triggered one of the most rapid and severe disruptions to global commodity flows in recent times,” the Chief Economist with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Thursday.
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UN resolution urges reparations for slavery’s ‘historical wrongs’
UN News - Global perspective Human stories Mar 25, 2026 | 13:00 pmApplause erupted in the UN General Assembly Hall on Wednesday as Member States adopted a resolution declaring the transatlantic slave trade the gravest crime against humanity.
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World News in Brief: 273 million out of school, deadly attacks on Ukraine, migratory species in danger
UN News - Global perspective Human stories Mar 25, 2026 | 13:00 pmThe number of children and young people out of school worldwide has climbed for the seventh consecutive year, reaching 273 million, according to a new report from the UN education agency, UNESCO.
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