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1. Displacement doubles while funding shrinks, warns UNHCR

   With 13.5 million people displaced by over 13 years of brutal civil conflict, Syria used to represent the largest displacement crisis in the world. This is no longer the case.

2. Gang violence displaces a record 1.3 million Haitians

   Nearly 1.3 million people have been forced to flee gang violence in Haiti and seek refuge elsewhere within the Caribbean country, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Wednesday.

3. Rising hunger in Gaza highlights urgent need for ‘unfettered’ aid supplies

   People in the Gaza Strip are getting hungrier because of the “very limited” volume of food being allowed in, UN aid agencies reiterated on Wednesday.  

4. Ukraine: Ongoing Russian strikes continue alarming civilian casualty trend

   Civilian deaths and injuries in the first five months of 2025 were nearly 50 per cent higher than the same period last year, UN rights experts tasked with monitoring abuses in war-torn Ukraine said on Wednesday in their latest report.

5. Climate emergency is a health crisis ‘that is already killing us,’ says WHO

   With 2024 confirmed as the hottest year on record, the World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a stark warning: the climate crisis is also a health crisis – and it’s already claiming lives.