World News in Brief: UNRWA investigation updates, new recruits for Haiti-support force, gun battles in Chadian capital

World News in Brief: UNRWA investigation updates, new recruits for Haiti-support force, gun battles in Chadian capital

The UN Secretary-General received an update on Wednesday from the Office of Internal Oversight (OIOS), which launched an investigation last month following allegations that a handful of UNRWA employees were complicit in Hamas’s October attacks that left almost 1,200 dead in Israel and 240 taken hostage. So far, investigators have reviewed initial information from a…

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Gaza war: ‘Intense ground battles’ reported, hospital hit kills five

Gaza war: ‘Intense ground battles’ reported, hospital hit kills five

Airstrikes and missiles struck dwellings and public buildings on Tuesday including Al-Amal hospital in Khan Younis killing five, among them a five-day-old baby, reports indicate. “No child in the world should be killed, let alone one sheltering under the emblem of a humanitarian organisation; this has to end,” said Gemma Connell, a team leader from…

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Urgent reform needed to shield women and children from violence during custody battles

Urgent reform needed to shield women and children from violence during custody battles

“The tendency of family courts to dismiss the history of domestic violence and abuse in custody cases, especially where mothers and/or children have brought forward credible allegations of domestic abuse, including coercive control, physical or sexual abuse is unacceptable,” said Reem Alsalem, UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, in a report to the Human Rights Council…

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