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Daily Wrap 26 June 2025
The preambular words of the UN Charter displayed at the United Nations Headquarters, in New York.
Eighty years on, UN Charter marked by reflection, resolve – and a run

It wasn't an average Thursday morning in Manhattan. In the early hours, UN diplomats (and UN News) hit the streets in their sneakers – from Times Square to East River – following a route that traced the shape of "UN@80".

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UN Affairs
Timely registration of births can mean access to healthcare, education and social protection.
Millions remain invisible – but Asia-Pacific leaders pledge change by 2030

More than a decade after Asian and Pacific nations launched a campaign to ensure every life is counted, millions across the region still remain "invisible" – born, living, and dying without formal recognition.

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Human Rights
MINUSCA peacekeepers deliver water to a village in the Central African Republic. (file photo)
Upcoming elections 'crucial opportunity' for Central African Republic, UN top official tells Security Council

As the Central African Republic (CAR) prepares for upcoming elections, the country continues to grapple with a fragile security and humanitarian context, the UN Security Council heard on Thursday. 

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Peace and Security
A building is destroyed by a shell attack in Donetsk region, Ukraine.
Ukraine: Increasing hostilities displace civilians, limit humanitarian access

Deadly hostilities continued along the front-line regions of Ukraine on Wednesday, displacing civilians and damaging civilian infrastructure, the UN has reported. 

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Peace and Security
Families who had been living in displaced persons camps around Goma on their way to Shasha village in North Kivu province, DR Congo.
DR Congo: Conflict survivors 'have been through hell,' says UN aid chief

The conflict-impacted people of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) urgently need much more international assistance than they are getting today, the UN's top aid official said on Thursday. 

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Peace and Security
The city skyline of Nairobi, Kenya.
UN calls for restraint after deadly Kenya protests

The UN is monitoring the situation in Kenya in the wake of deadly antigovernment protests on Wednesday. 

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Human Rights
A young girl runs through the rubble of damaged buildings after an Israeli military raid at Nur Shams refugee camp, in the West Bank in August 2024.
UN rights office sounds the alarm over forced displacement in the West Bank

Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are increasingly being subjected to forced displacement and land seizures, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, has reported. 

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Human Rights
A woman and her children sit inside their destroyed home, in Burij in the central Gaza Strip.
'Our kids cry for food': Most Gaza families survive on one meal a day

Most families in the Gaza Strip are surviving on one meal a day and one-third go entire days without eating as a result of Israel's continued bombardment of the enclave, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and partners.

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Humanitarian Aid
Captagon is the most commonly abused illicit drug in the Gulf States.
Despite the fall of Assad, the illicit drug trade in Syria is far from over

When Bashar Al-Assad ruled Syria, his regime was widely accused of profiting from the production and trafficking of Captagon, an illicit synthetic drug that is most commonly abused by users in the Middle East. 

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Law and Crime Prevention
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