Overview
- UN briefings in New York on Wednesday presented finalized 2025 figures showing roughly one civilian killed every 14 minutes and about 37,000 documented civilian deaths.
- OCHA and the Inter-Agency Standing Committee reported more than 1,350 attacks on medical care in 2025 and over 10,000 verified incidents against health workers and facilities to date.
- Humanitarian personnel have been hit at unprecedented levels, with more than 1,000 aid workers killed over the past three years and 144 reported killed, injured, abducted, or detained in early 2026.
- Conflict-driven hunger worsened in 2025 with 147 million people facing acute food insecurity and two famines confirmed by the UN that it links to siege tactics and denial of humanitarian access.
- UN officials and member states called for stronger compliance and accountability and announced diplomatic initiatives such as a UK-led coalition for Sudan while no new, universally accepted enforcement mechanism has been adopted.