The Ministry of Health in Gaza reported 370 killed, including at least 20 children, and 2,200 injuries since 7 October. Three students at directly hit schools run by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, are confirmed to be among the casualties....
“Carrying out hostilities with the knowledge that they will systematically destroy and damage civilian housing and infrastructure, rendering an entire city – such as Gaza city - uninhabitable for civilians is a war crime,” said Balakrishnan Rajagopal, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing....
The Commission’s recent investigations in the regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia show that rape and other sexual violence were often committed together with additional acts of violence against the victims, including severe beatings, strangling, suffocating, slashing, shooting next to the head of the victim and wilful killing....
The Kakhovka dam breach caused massive damage, submerging 620 square kilometres of territory in four oblasts—Kherson, Mykolaiv, Dnipropetrovsk, and Zaporizhzhia—impacting 100,000 residents directly. It severely damaged housing, infrastructure, the environment, and cultural sites such as historic buildings, museums, and...
Ukraine’s own post-war recovery plan identifies humanitarian mine clearance as one of the top five priorities. The Ukrainian authorities will place particular focus on restoration of agricultural land and reconstruction of critical infrastructure....
The donation of software, laptops, monitors, and autonomous internet and power sources, made by the WHO, supports 83 regional workstations as well as the Kyiv City Information and Analytical Center for Medical Statistics. The donation will revolutionize data collection and reporting across 6 key regions – Dnipropetrovsk,...
Since May 2023, a total of 148 children have been killed or injured in Ukraine, bringing the number of child casualties since the escalation of war on 24 Feb last year to more than 1,700, according to UN data. This includes 545 deaths, with 24 children killed this summer.
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is responding to flash floods in Bangladesh that have displaced over 15,000 Rohingya refugees and 300,000 members of the local communities in Cox’s Bazar....
