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• Gaza humanitarian update, rights experts’ appeal over aid access
• Sudan: Civilians ‘are trapped’ in El-Fasher, warns UN’s Türk 
• ‘Just in case’ antibiotics widely overused during COVID-19, says UN health agency

Digital technologies and algorithm-driven software, especially social media, present high risks of privacy invasion, cyberbullying and distraction from learning to young girls – that’s according to the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) 2024 Global Education Monitor (

• Teen alcohol and nicotine use in Europe is up, WHO urges preventive measure
• UK gender change therapy review reveals devastating impacts on kids, says top rights expert
• Independent rights body to investigate fate of missing persons in Syria 

Some heads of top “Ivy League” universities across the United States have been pushed out due to political pressure as educators crack down on students protesting Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza, shining a spotlight on the right to free speech around the world.

Small Island Developing States are particularly vulnerable to plastic pollution.

The UN and partners are duty bound to work towards an early recovery on behalf of Gazans, even though that is “intrinsically tied to progress on the political front and the two-State solution”.

• Gaza: People ‘are clearly dying’ from hunger, warns UN food agency 
• Global hunger set to rise amid record displacement, warn FAO, UNHCR
• Tanzania in rights spotlight over ritual attacks on people with albinsm  

In Kosovo, where tensions remain high between the ethnic Albanian and ethnic Serb communities, the United Nations is leading efforts to promote open communication and dialogue.

• Gaza mass graves uncovered with victims’ hands tied: UN’s Türk
• Ethiopia clashes displace 50,000, warn UN humanitarians 
• Asia, the world’s most disaster-hit region from climate shocks: WMO

Sabreen al-Sakani: one name among the more than 34,000 people killed in Gaza since 7 October. Sabreen was 30 weeks pregnant when she died after sustaining terrible head injuries in an Israeli airstrike in the south of the enclave.