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From 1 April 2026, food assistance for 1.2 million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh was split into tiers. Bangladesh's own refugee commissioner disagreed with the framing.
The Committee to Protect Journalists attributes about two thirds of those deaths to the Israeli military, most of them Palestinians reporting from Gaza. It is the second record year in a row.
The Norwegian Refugee Council has ranked neglected displacement crises for ten years. DR Congo has appeared on every single list — and its 2026 aid plan now covers a third fewer health zones than last year's.
The appeal is not smaller because the need is smaller. It is smaller because the money stopped arriving — and the gap between those two facts is now official policy.
Five years after the Taliban takeover, UNESCO counts 2.4 million girls shut out of secondary education and the UN counts more than 100 decrees restricting women's lives. UN Women calls it the world's most severe women's rights crisis.
Asia's garment sector employs around 60 million workers and produces over half of global clothing exports. The ILO's own assessment of conditions is blunt.
OCHA logged 1,835 settler attacks in 2025. The rate through early 2026 puts the year on track to pass 2,000 — and whole communities are leaving.
The IMF says recovery is accelerating. The World Bank puts reconstruction at $216 billion. Both things are true, and the gap between them is where most Syrians live.
More than 30 million people need aid and over 9 million are displaced inside the country. The response plan is 40 percent funded — and clinics are closing because the money ran out.
The World Bank titled its report 'A Fragile Rebound'. Growth is back, inflation is falling — and the depositors who lost their savings have still not been made whole.
A deputy oil minister was arrested with gold, rifles and cash. Investigators then excavated more money from the ground. Iraq has announced anti-corruption drives before.
The IPC pushed Gaza out of famine classification in December 2025. As of July 2026, 1.4 million people — 67 percent — remain in crisis-level food insecurity or worse.
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