This includes a drone attack that hit Dilling General Hospital this week, killing at least four patients and injuring civilians.
Violence has also increased in North Kordofan and the city of El Obeid has faced continuous drone attacks for the past five days.
Access to help ‘restricted’
“Humanitarian access is also increasingly restricted,” Dujarric said.
There are increasing threats to critical infrastructure and supply routes, including the road between Kosti and El Obeid, raising serious concerns for both humanitarian and commercial supply chains.
Dujarric urged the parties to respect international law and ensure “the protection of civilians and civilian infrastructure and the facilitation of safe and sustained humanitarian access.”
UN human rights chief warns that global inequality is deepening
The UN human rights chief has warned that the global economic system is failing billions of people and putting development goals at risk.
Speaking on Thursday, Volker Türk said more than half of the world’s workers earn their living in the informal economy, often without basic protections such as paid sick leave or maternity leave.
This includes almost 60 percent of working women.
‘Devastating consequences’
He said deep inequality is making the situation worse. Over the past two decades, the richest one percent captured 41 percent of all new wealth, while the poorest half of humanity received only one percent.
“The consequences are devastating,” he warned, linking poverty and lack of social protection to exploitation and human trafficking.
Given the deviation from the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Mr. Türk urged Major reforms: from restructuring global debt and expanding social protection to measuring progress based on people’s well-being., not just economic growth.
HIV treatment is “one of the decisive successes of public health”: WHO’s Tedros
HIV, once a death sentence, can now be controlled with safe and effective medications.
As a result, the number of annual AIDS-related deaths has fallen by 70 percent over the past 20 years.
In recent years, the same medications used to treat HIV infection have also been used to prevent it in people at risk.
Progress in mitigation
Last year, a new HIV prevention drug, lenacapavir, was approved and described by World Health Organization (WHO) director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as the most important advance in the fight against HIV since the first antiretrovirals were approved almost 40 years ago.
Lenacapavir is taken once every six months by HIV-negative people who are at risk of infection. In trials, it has been shown to prevent almost all cases of HIV in people at risk.
In October last year, the WHO “prequalified” it. Since then, WHO has supported nine countries to distribute lenacapavir to people at risk of HIV: Eswatini, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
“Domicides” increase as conflicts proliferate, warns senior human rights expert
Mass destruction of housing due to conflict around the world has continued to cause mass destitution and AI has made it much worse, according to the Special Rapporteur on housing, Balakrishnan Rajagopal.
On the ongoing war in the Middle East, the independent expert appointed by the UN Human Rights Council highlighted reports indicating that AI had been used to attack more than 1,000 targets in the first 24 to 48 hours in Iran.
“I hope that the Iran crisis stops gaining momentum, that steps are taken to stop it completely as soon as possible, and that the parties return to the negotiating table to resolve any differences they have instead of trying to bomb each other and destroy everything that took them decades to build.”
Widespread destruction
In his latest report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Rajagopal described the widespread or systematic destruction of homes in Gaza, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine and elsewhere as “domicide.”
Following his visit to Guatemala in July 2025, the Special Rapporteur also highlighted the “widespread practice of forced evictions and the criminalization of indigenous peoples and peasant communities” there.
He argued that many evictions were prompted by court orders following criminal complaints filed by private developers, with little protection from authorities for those who lost their homes or land.