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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Sudan war: Aid teams plead for access to thousands trapped in El Fasher
UN News - Global perspective Human stories Nov 14, 2025 | 13:00 pmJust how many people are still trapped in the Sudanese city of El Fasher? That’s the burning question for relatives of the many thousands of people believed to still be there, since paramilitary fighters overran the regional capital of North[…]
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Ukraine: UN condemns latest deadly attack targeting civilians in Kyiv
UN News - Global perspective Human stories Nov 14, 2025 | 13:00 pmSeveral civilians were killed and many others injured, including children, in a large-scale Russian attack on Ukraine’s capital and the wider Kyiv region early on Friday.
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Stolen Past: Inside the fight against illicit antiquities trafficking
UN News - Global perspective Human stories Nov 14, 2025 | 13:00 pmThe illicit trade in cultural property is one of the world’s oldest and most profitable forms of criminal activity – but now efforts by the UN and law enforcement agencies across the world are helping to bring down these global[…]
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COP30: Climate crisis is a health crisis, WHO warns as philanthropies pledge $300m for solutions
UN News - Global perspective Human stories Nov 14, 2025 | 13:00 pmClimate change is already fueling a global health emergency, killing more than half a million people each year through extreme heat and threatening hospitals worldwide, according to a major report released on Friday at COP30 in Belém, Brazil.
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Diabetes now affects 1 in 6 pregnancies: What you need to know
UN News - Global perspective Human stories Nov 14, 2025 | 13:00 pmDiabetes is one of the world’s fastest-growing health challenges – and its impact stretches across every life stage, from childhood to older age.
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Indigenous protesters block COP30 entrance, demand action from Brazilian Government
UN News - Global perspective Human stories Nov 14, 2025 | 13:00 pmAround 90 Indigenous people from the Munduruku Indigenous group staged a peaceful protest early Friday, blocking the main entrance to the Blue Zone – the restricted area set aside for negotiators – at COP30 in Belém. Access was halted for[…]
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Security Council lays the ground in the race for the next Secretary-General
UN News - Global perspective Human stories Nov 14, 2025 | 13:00 pmThe UN Security Council met on Friday for its annual debate over how it operates – including the process to select the next Secretary-General in 2026.
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‘Mobs’ target Palestinians in occupied West Bank, as floods roil Gaza
UN News - Global perspective Human stories Nov 14, 2025 | 13:00 pmImages emerged this week of what appear to be mobs of masked Israeli settlers carrying out arson attacks on Palestinian homes and property, the UN human rights office (OHCHR) said on Friday.
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World News in Brief: Typhoon generation, disability rights in Myanmar, new refugee-led climate fund
UN News - Global perspective Human stories Nov 13, 2025 | 13:00 pmThe strongest typhoon to make landfall this year in the Philippines has impacted a staggering 1.7 million children – and more than five million people overall.
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From Haiti to Ethiopia: voices of climate displacement at COP30
UN News - Global perspective Human stories Nov 13, 2025 | 13:00 pmFloods, heatwaves, droughts and storms are forcing millions from their homes every year. Most never cross a border; they remain internally displaced yet uprooted all the same. But experts warn that in the not-so-distant future, entire nations could disappear beneath[…]
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