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Over 5,000 deaths have been recorded this year as violence spirals in the Caribbean country

Soaring violence in Port-au-Prince since last week has left at least 150 people dead, bringing the number of deaths in Haiti this year to over 4,500, the United Nations said Wednesday.

Around 80 per cent of UN-verified Palestinian deaths have been in residential buildings or similar housing

Overall, 44 percent of the victims were children; the youngest was a day-old boy and the oldest was a 97-year-old woman.

Sudan’s brutal civil war shows no signs of slowing, with reports of escalating atrocities and rampant sexual violence threatening to destroy entire communities. Harrowing accounts from a UN report detail widespread abuses, with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) implicated in a surge of attacks targeting women and children.

UN rights chief Volker Turk on Tuesday urged students at Bangladesh's Dhaka University, the heart of the uprising that toppled autocratic leader Sheikh Hasina, to "protect" democracy to end cycles of revenge.

Rape is widespread in Sudan's civil war, a United Nations investigation said Tuesday, accusing paramilitaries especially of committing sexual violence on a "staggering" scale.

Israeli strike in Beit Lahiya, Gaza, leads to casualties and siege on hospital. UN expresses grave concern.

Dozens killed in southern Gaza attack as UN rights chief warns of ‘atrocity crimes’ in Israel’s offensive in north.

At UNSC, UN rights chief says Israel’s attacks on Hezbollah devices violated international law and could be a war crime.

UN report finds 5,350 civilians have been killed by the military since the coup in February 2021.