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The UN continues to be concerned about the plight of civilians in Ukraine especially as winter sets in, a UN Spokesperson said today. UNIFEED

The Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, told the Security Council that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict “is again reaching a boiling point.” UNIFEED

UN Women is launching a groundbreaking set of recommendations on protecting women human rights defenders worldwide, especially those at risk in migration contexts. UNTV CH

With more than 50 percent of Ukraine’s capital Kyiv and the majority of Ukraine’s oblasts being without electricity while winter sets in, the humanitarian needs for the population are rising by the day. UNTV CH

South Sudanese refugee fights deforestation in Uganda by planting trees. UNHCR

UN human rights chief Volker Türk called on Thursday for an independent investigation into ongoing deadly violence against protesters in Iran, where security forces have used “live ammunition, birdshot and other metal pellets, teargas and batons”, he told the Human Rights Council in Geneva. UNTV CH

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine told the Security Council today that Russia’s attacks against his country's energy infrastructure are “an obvious crime against humanity”. UNIFEED

In an interview in Dnipro, Ukraine, WHO Regional Director for Europe said, “as a medical doctor myself, I am so saddened and actually outraged to see that those attacks on health and healthcare facilities continue.” WHO

The 9th Global Forum of the UN Alliance of Civilizations concluded its works today in Fez, Morocco. UNIFEED

Ahead of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, observed on November 25th, a new report by UN Women and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) indicates that more than five women or girls are killed every hour by someone in their own family. UNIFEED