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UN human rights office in ‘survival mode’ amid major funding cuts

  • OHCHR has $90 million less in funding than it needed this year, which resulted in 300 jobs cuts, directly impacting the office’s work, Turk said
  • “Essential work has had to be cut”
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UN asks US to stop strikes on alleged drug boats

By AFP ·

UN rights chief demands end to ‘carnage’ amid Israel’s Gaza City assault

By AFP ·
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UN warns Israel’s Qatar attack as assault on ‘regional peace and stability’

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Rights advocates demand UN press China on abuses in Xinjiang

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UN rights chief warns world inaction on Gaza could amount to war crimes, genocide complicity

By Ephrem Kossaify ·
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Gaza hospital: 21 children dead from starvation, malnutrition in 72 hours

By Arab News ·

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