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Almost seven months to the day since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, UN-appointed independent human rights investigators said that war crimes have indeed been committed in the conflict. UNTV CH

After lashing parts of Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands with 140 kilometre-an-hour winds, Hurricane Fiona is expected to make landfall in Canada late Friday and Saturday, the UN said. UNTV CH

The situation for Sudan’s most vulnerable children is so desperate that half of the most severely malnourished youngsters are expected to die without urgent humanitarian intervention, UN agencies said on Friday. UNTV CH

Horrific testimonies from civilians targeted by Myanmar’s military are yet another reason for the international community to take practical measures to halt the bloodshed, a top human rights expert said on Thursday. UNTV CH

Millions of people in Pakistan are still deeply affected by catastrophic flooding, which “is not going anywhere,” UN relief agencies said on Tuesday. UNTV CH

People’s rights to privacy is coming under even greater pressure from the use of modern networked digital technologies whose features make them formidable tools for surveillance, control and oppression, a new UN report has warned. UNTV CH

Urgent action is needed to mitigate emission and adapt to the changing climate, this is the key message of the latest report “United in Science” presented by Prof Petteri Taalas, Secretary General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), at the United Nations in Geneva. UNTV CH

Catastrophic hunger levels in Somalia have left more than 513,000 children at risk of dying, 173,000 more than during the 2011 famine, UN humanitarians warned on Tuesday. UNTV CH

Afghanistan: no other country in the world where women and girls have “so rapidly” been deprived of their fundamental rights “purely because of gender,” UN-appointed expert told Human Rights Council. UNTV CH

The head of the UN Human rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, Matilda Bogner, said, “We have documented that prisoners of war in the power of the Russian Federation and held by the Russian Federation’s armed forces or by affiliated armed groups have suffered torture and ill-treatment, and in some places of detention lack adequate food, water, healthcare, and sanitation.” UNTV CH