See below for detail and source
UNRWA (UN agency) reported continuing armed-conflict impacts between 9 and 22 September, including evacuation orders and shelter-in-place alerts affecting its installations. It recorded injuries to six displaced people sheltering in UNRWA schools, the death of one cash-for-work beneficiary, and the serious injury of one staff member in separate incidents linked to strikes in the vicinity.
The same report, citing Ministry of Health figures reported by the Health Cluster, placed the Gaza cumulative toll through 20 September at 73,914 killed and 174,952 injured. It also reported that 90 per cent of the population experienced frequent, unpredictable disruption to safe-water access and that an estimated 1.98 million people required shelter and non-food-item assistance.
OCHA (UN/humanitarian) reported that operations by Israeli forces, settler violence, demolitions and movement restrictions continued to drive displacement, property damage and livelihood disruption. By 14 September, more than 4,300 Palestinians had been displaced in 2026 and more than 1,600 settler attacks had been recorded across 275 communities.
For the 8–14 September reporting period, OCHA documented no Palestinian fatalities and at least 27 injuries caused by Israeli forces or settlers. The current OCHA bulletin separately reported a 2026 sub-total through 4 September of 82 Palestinians killed and about 1,900 injured; the consulted bulletin did not state a single updated full cumulative total for the entire period since 7 October 2023.
Reuters (wire service) reported that Qatar was exchanging messages with Iran and the United States to seek common ground, but that no deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz had been reached. Iran's reported proposal envisaged a seven-day countdown to reopening the strait and pausing fighting.
A second Reuters (wire service) report said US and Iranian officials had separately engaged mediators; it described Iran's stated conditions as including an end to hostilities, unfreezing assets, lifting the US blockade and resuming nuclear talks.
OHCHR (UN agency) recorded at least 372 civilians killed and 2,349 injured across Ukraine in August. It separately verified four killed and 35 injured in Russian-occupied territory, but said a lack of independent information and access prevents verification of most allegations there. The table's non-occupied-territory row therefore uses a transparent arithmetic proxy from the OHCHR total, not an OHCHR-labelled government-controlled-territory total.
On the Russian side, RT (Russian state) reported Russian officials' claim that Ukrainian attacks had killed more than 8,000 civilians and injured almost 20,000 since February 2022. The 30 September Russia Matters (Western-nuanced source) report card recorded an RF government claim of 8,434 people killed in attacks by Ukrainian forces and noted that it could not verify civilian or military casualty figures.
WFP (UN agency) said it assisted 4.1 million people across Sudan in August, including one million in areas classified as at Risk of Famine. It distributed 18,200 metric tonnes of food and transferred USD 7.7 million in cash; nearly three-quarters of beneficiaries reached were in Darfur and Kordofan.
Conflict activity remained acute in Blue Nile. ACLED (conflict-data provider) reported that the Sudan Founding Alliance launched heavy drone strikes on Al-Damazin on 13 and 14 September, after seizing six villages in Al Kurmuk locality. For the war since April 2023, CSIS (US policy research institution) described death-toll estimates ranging from 150,000 to 400,000 and cautioned that the full number remains difficult to establish.
UN Myanmar (UN agency) reported more than 16 million people in need and nearly 3.8 million people displaced, with conflict, protection risks and access constraints intensifying the humanitarian crisis. It said recent hostilities in Magway displaced more than 100,000 people and that only 43 per cent of the USD 890 million 2026 response requirement had been received in the July update.
The UN Myanmar (UN agency) Quarter 2 dashboard reported that partners reached 3.1 million affected people by 30 June, including 1.3 million internally displaced people. It attributed continuing access constraints to armed hostilities, movement restrictions and administrative requirements.
Table 1 — Casualties (Killed / Wounded)
| Conflict/Crisis | Key Statistic | Source | Killed | Wounded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gaza | Since 7 Oct 2023 (cumulative, through 20 Sep 2026) | UNRWA (UN agency) | 73,914 | 174,952 |
| Since 10 Oct 2025 ceasefire agreement (through 20 Sep 2026) | UNRWA (UN agency) | 1,394 | 4,991 | |
| West Bank | Since 7 Oct 2023 — latest OCHA 2026 sub-total through 4 Sep; full current cumulative not stated in consulted bulletin | OCHA (UN/humanitarian) | 82 | about 1,900 |
| Sudan | Since Apr 2023 (estimated range) | CSIS (US policy research institution) | 150,000–400,000 | Not comprehensively estimated |
| Ukraine | Civilians, government-controlled territory proxy (Aug 2026; OHCHR total less verified occupied-territory cases) | OHCHR (UN agency) | at least 368 | at least 2,314 |
| Civilians, Russian-occupied territory (Aug 2026; access restricted) | OHCHR (UN agency) | Unverified* | Unverified* | |
| Russia | Civilians from Ukrainian strikes (RF government claim, since Feb 2022) | RT (Russian state) | more than 8,000 | almost 20,000 |
* OHCHR access is denied to Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine; figures for civilians in occupied territory cannot be independently verified. The vast majority (96%) of verified civilian casualties occur in Government-controlled areas.
Table 2 — Numbers (non-casualty figures)
| Conflict/Crisis | Key Statistic | Figure | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gaza | Population with frequent, unpredictable disruption to safe-water access | 90% | UNRWA (UN agency) |
| People needing shelter and non-food-item assistance | 1.98 million (94% of population) | UNRWA (UN agency) | |
| West Bank | Palestinians displaced in 2026 through 14 September | more than 4,300 | OCHA (UN/humanitarian) |
| Settler attacks in 2026 through 14 September | more than 1,600 across 275 communities | OCHA (UN/humanitarian) | |
| Sudan | People assisted in August 2026 | 4.1 million | WFP (UN agency) |
| People assisted in areas classified as at Risk of Famine in August 2026 | 1 million | WFP (UN agency) | |
| Myanmar | People in need of humanitarian assistance | more than 16 million | UN Myanmar (UN agency) |
| Estimated people displaced | nearly 3.8 million | UN Myanmar (UN agency) | |
| Iran–US | Iranian proposal's stated countdown before reopening the Strait of Hormuz | seven days | Reuters (wire service) |
Top sources. Click a button to show only that source. Click again to restore all sources.
The new sanctions target political figures and commentators, including the brother-in-law of Tbilisi’s mayor, over a September 2025 meeting with the head of the Russian-backed, so-called Donetsk People’s Republic.
An interfaith online discussion, held as the UN General Assembly's high-level week wound down, brought together religious leaders, scholars, and youth advocates to discuss how faith communities can advance nuclear disarm...
Balázs Hankó, a former culture minister under Viktor Orbán, was ordered held in pretrial detention over allegations he funneled tens of millions in state cultural grants to political allies, marking a dramatic escalation...
Humorous / Satire The other day, I was “invited” accidentally to a Signal Chat with AI Agents, who were sharing sensitive classified details of pending doomsday scenarios for humanity. The AI Agents had concluded incorre...
The full protection of civilians would not be constrained by the limits of international humanitarian law, such as its focus on immediate harms. Instead this paper explores the environmental consequences of conflict and...
AWAKENINGS One of the most distinct memories I have of an incident that took place during the last 35 to 40 years happened on January 16th of 1991. A friend and I were driving home from a movie theater where… Mark Lesse...
Demonstrating a political commitment to the country, last Tuesday the 29th, the “Citizens’ Forum: Pro-Crime Laws? Dialogue between parliamentarians, experts and affected citizens” was held. Senator Mirtha Vasquez, deputi...
Eight weeks after Michigan’s Democratic primary, the most interesting development is not a new poll or a new endorsement. It is a change in method. Seven weeks on, we had observed that the boundaries of the coalitions we...
The enormous challenge of halting the spread of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) just became even harder after a key transit centre for patients requiring treatment burned down in Ituri province.
The deadly flash floods in northern Nepal have severely disrupted employment and livelihoods, with wider impacts beyond communities that were directly affected, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said in a preli...
Going abroad carried the dream of changing their family’s fortunes. However, after falling victim to abuse, fraud or unwanted pregnancies and returning home with children, these women face another difficult battle. Along...
Considered one of the world’s most oppressive countries, Turkmenistan has long silenced critics at home. A leaked arrest warrant list reveals how the regime has weaponized the legal system to target dissidents abroad.
Why did the Russia-Ukraine war happen, and what factors beyond power politics and national security help explain the conflict? In this in-depth conversation, Lasha Kasradze of The Golden Fleece welcomes Professor Nicolai...
“The word ‘security’ is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment.” ~ Justice Hugo Black,New York Times Co. v. United States (1971) “Na...
The post 2026 UN Water Conference appeared first on United Nations Sustainable Development.
Every October 2, the world honors the power of nonviolence. The International Day of Nonviolence is observed annually on October 2, coinciding with the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Mahatma Gandhi defined nonviole...
An international conference on “Islamic Movements in the New World Order: Building a Resilient Pluralistic Society Based on Malaysia Madani” was jointly organized by WAHDA, ABIM and PKPIM on September 26, 2026, bringing...
Underneath the appearance of “normalcy” in the ongoing relationship between Venezuela and the US lies a manifest asymmetry of power. Even commentators from mainstream international news outlets frame their analyses by dr...
The U.S. Department of the Treasury blacklisted the first cybercriminal on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List, accusing the Venezuelan hacker of developing malware that allowed the transnational gang Tren de Aragua and Mexic...
NEW YORK, September 24: Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has called on the international community to take urgent and effective action to address the growing threat of rising sea levels. He said the crisis is not...
As the 4th World March for Peace and Nonviolence moved across cities and communities around the world, a different kind of movement was taking place within the walls of Kibos Maximum Security Prison in Kisumu, Kenya. The...
The U.S. Senate defeated House-approved legislation today that would have allowed all members to retain their conflicting stock investments and continue manipulating the stock market. Craig Holman, Ph.D., government aff...
More than 50 kilograms of cocaine tied to two major criminal trials vanished from the High Court registry, marking the second major evidence theft this year.
The post Ex-US Diplomat: Biden Gaza Officials Must NEVER Hold Power Again appeared first on Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
Sens. Martin Heinrich and Sheldon Whitehouse today released a top-line summary of an agreement with Sen. Shelly Moore Capito and Rep. Bruce Westerman to advance so-called “permitting reform.”The legislative package, cyn...
Today, the national advocacy organization Food & Water Watch sued the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), demanding the agency release records under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) relate...
The Senate may imminently announce a permitting reform bill that would gut bedrock environmental laws to enable a massive buildout of fossil fuel infrastructure, data centers, and other projects that harm our climate. T...
Dhaka, 30 September 2026: Youth representatives and young workers have called for their concerns, experiences and demands to be reflected in Bangladesh’s climate policies and national position for COP31, saying that clim...
The post Carney’s middle powers alliance to confront ‘specific problems’ lacking specifics: observers appeared first on Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
The post After Two Decades, U.S. Forces Leave Iraq to an Uncertain Future appeared first on Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
The UN refugee agency, UNHCHR, has voiced concern over Malaysia’s decision to return 1,476 people to Myanmar amid an ongoing civil war and a dire human rights and humanitarian situation.
Four in five households in Lebanon struggle to afford basic necessities today, with children increasingly going without food, missing school and being pushed into work as conflict compounds years of economic crisis. "I w...
What if the world tackled inequality with the same kind of scientific firepower it has brought to the climate crisis?
Children have been killed and injured in fresh fighting in Baidoa, in Somalia’s South West State, where families were already facing severe hunger and other overlapping crises.
Homicide rates are falling across much of the world, but organised crime is on the rise in many regions as criminal networks diversify into trafficking, migrant smuggling, and the exploitation of natural resources, a new...
UN teams are racing to protect families in Gaza from the coming rainy season, but restricted access to land and shortages of critical supplies are hampering the effort, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said on Wednesday...
Artificial Intelligence or AI – and the technology behind it – is moving fast. The question being asked across the world is who gets a seat at the table deciding how it's used and who gets to benefit.
The UN is continuing efforts to support Palestinians in Gaza amid major challenges to humanitarian access, reconstruction and the restoration of essential services, according to Ramiz Alakbarov, Acting UN Special Coordin...
DHAKA, Sept 30, 2026: Dhaka WASA has pledged to ensure a smoke- and tobacco-free environment across all its offices, with emphasis on implementing relevant provisions of the Smoking and Tobacco Products Usage (Control) A...
30 September 2026, Quezon City, Philippines. The Philippines today launched a new national project, ‘Sustainable electronics management in the Philippines, ’ to advance circular electronics under the Global Electronics M...
Frontline municipalities, worker cooperatives, and civil society prove decentralized organic waste systems are ready for immediate scale as climate finance continues to favor capital-intensive disposal Jakarta, Indonesi...
We are told, almost daily, that Vladimir Putin is finished. Weak. Isolated. One more package of sanctions away from being overthrown by his own people. It has become the background music of European politics. I discussed...
“I stand here because Ukraine and Europe continue to choose a bad war over a bad peace — escalation over diplomacy, time and again. Yet one day this war will end, and each of us will be remembered by the fruit we bear to...
We present the 2026 US Peace Prize. But first, I want to share a few words about our country and the mission of the US Peace Memorial Foundation. By Michael D. Knox, PhD, Chair, US Peace Memorial Foundation The U.S. is…...
“Canada does not need to choose only one table.” “Geography places Canada next to the United States. Economics forces it to trade with it. But neither requires Ottawa to close the other doors of the planet.” I. THE SHIEL...
I think everyone knows the German tale of The Pied Piper of Hamelin. That piper with his magical flute who makes all children follow him hypnotized to disappear in a mountain. In its most original version he is a kind… P...
Top sources. Click a button to show only that source. Click again to restore all sources.
The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing has released a consultation paper on excessive specialist fees. The paper can be boiled down to a simple question: when a specialist charges far more than their peers, or f...
Compare five trusted roofing companies in Sydney for residential roofing. See what each does well and what to check before you hire a roofer. read now...
Explore nine firms financing battery storage projects in Australia, from major banks and government funds to specialist lenders supporting energy storage growth. read now...
There’s a war on Iran choking global oil supplies, an artificial intelligence boom, and a US president torpedoing the global trading system, but inflation simply MUST be normal, according to the RBA. On this episode of D...
David Shoebridge’s rise to the Greens leadership offers a chance to challenge Labor from the Left and push for more radical action on inequality, climate change and AI. read now...
Australia must confront falling fertility, an ageing population and growing skills shortages with a long-term strategy that looks beyond migration alone. read now...
Australia’s Cocos Islands territory is being converted to support US military operations. The post AUSTRALIAN ISLAND BASE’S HIDDEN U.S. MILITARY ROLE appeared first on Declassified Australia.
The latest corporate tax data released today by the Australian Tax Office (ATO) showed that once again, major gas producers are paying no company tax, and despite claims that changes to the Petroleum Rent Resources Tax (...
Australia’s criminalisation and detention of children as young as ten is a “crime scene and a human rights catastrophe,” disproportionately impacting First Nations kids, Senator Lidia Thorpe has said. In separate comment...
One Nation supporters consistently say Pauline Hanson is an “average” Australian who speaks her mind and “says what the average person is thinking all the time”. read now...
Recent months have seen Western Australian Greens MLC Sophie McNeill persistently raising ire in WA parliament over the Cook Labor government not only moving to host the Land Forces 2026 weapons festival, but further, to...
The New South Wales Police Force carried out a two-day wanding blitz across the state last weekend, which saw 4,436 members of the public wanded for knives. The operation led to more than 150 people being charged with a...
One Nation’s rise is often treated as cultural anger. New data point to something more concrete: poor health, financial insecurity and communities left without the services that make life work.
When I wrote my very first editor's message 19 months ago, I said that P&I expected leaders to display the moral courage required if we are to tackle existential threats. I have been reminded how true this is every week....
David Shoebridge takes over a Greens party looking for growth while One Nation surges. His pitch is sharper: confront the populist right and stop treating Labor as something merely to reform.
In 1942, crisis forced Australia to rethink a dangerous strategic dependence. Today, reliance on imported fuel creates another vulnerability. Electrification offers a path to greater economic and national security.
On International Wrongful Conviction Day, Australia still leaves prisoners to overcome an almost impossible barrier when challenging unsafe convictions.
As plantations supply more of Australia’s timber, how they are established and harvested will increasingly shape biodiversity. Good management can make a substantial difference.
Domestic data does not support the decision to raise interest rates. Being wrong in the right company (the market and conservative economists) might make for easier dinner parties and congratulatory op-eds in the financi...
British intelligence warns that climate and ecosystem collapse could drive conflict, migration, famine and economic instability. Yet governments continue to conceal the full scale of the threat.
With warnings of an AI-fuelled apocalypse growing louder, Independent Australia went straight to the source and asked ChatGPT whether we should start panicking. read now...
The RBA has lifted rates to 4.6 per cent, concentrating much of the pain of fighting inflation on younger households with mortgages. A tighter budget could spread the burden more fairly, but serious spending cuts would m...
Britain says SSN-AUKUS remains on track. But its shipyards are already stretched while new reactor and workforce capacity is still being built. Australia is betting heavily on that gap being closed in time.
The WA GST deal has cost almost $23 billion and left other states short. Political convenience is overriding fairness, independent advice and the national interest.
Netanyahu has repeatedly denied receiving warnings before 7 October. Now a source says he privately asked the UAE president to deny one of the accounts.
Labor’s Left has the prime minister, the numbers and formidable control of the party machinery. What it lacks is a program for changing Australia. After decades spent accumulating power, the bigger question is what that...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are increasingly overrepresented in out-of-home care. Protecting children means making the system answer for the warnings it misses and the failures it repeats.
Australia wants 80 per cent of working-age people to hold a tertiary qualification by 2050. Yet almost half of workers say they are already overeducated for their jobs. The answer depends on what we think education is ac...
Australia’s multibillion-dollar online gambling industry is effectively regulated by a Northern Territory body with no full-time staff, says Independent MLA Justine Davis. On this episode of Follow the Money, Justine Dav...
Despite calls for AI guardrails, sadly, the Albanese Government has been "toothless" and slow to act on the threat of AI. read now...
The Reserve Bank has lifted interest rates to 4.6%, but higher rates cannot fix oil-driven inflation and risk deepening an economic downturn. read now...
Inflation in August rose from 3.5% to 4.0%, which might make you think the RBA had a point in raising interest rates yesterday. The problem is that all of the increase was due to petrol prices.
Could big spending explain the success of the independents at the ACT election? New data from the ACT Electoral Commission shows this isn't the case.
The Reserve Bank should use Gross Domestic Regeneration to distinguish imported oil shocks from domestic inflation – and avoid compounding the damage.
Drawing on research from six Australian and UK universities, a team from the Australian National University (ANU) and UNSW has launched the Carbon Impacts Tracer, which translates carbon dioxide emissions into estimates...
Today's boys are being fed entitlement and grievance — women are cast as the enemy who took something that was owed to them. read now...
Exam security becomes more useful when educators treat it as a chain of evidence rather than a collection of isolated controls. read now...
The RBA has lifted rates to 4.6 per cent, concentrating much of the pain of fighting inflation on younger households with mortgages. A tighter budget could spread the burden more fairly, but serious spending cuts would m...
The Trump administration says Albanese’s plan to protect Australians from “seriously harmful material and conduct” is a “blank cheque for political censorship”. In a supreme act of foreign interference, the US Embassy an...
Britain says SSN-AUKUS remains on track. But its shipyards are already stretched while new reactor and workforce capacity is still being built. Australia is betting heavily on that gap being closed in time.
The WA GST deal has cost almost $23 billion and left other states short. Political convenience is overriding fairness, independent advice and the national interest.
Netanyahu has repeatedly denied receiving warnings before 7 October. Now a source says he privately asked the UAE president to deny one of the accounts.
Labor’s Left has the prime minister, the numbers and formidable control of the party machinery. What it lacks is a program for changing Australia. After decades spent accumulating power, the bigger question is what that...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are increasingly overrepresented in out-of-home care. Protecting children means making the system answer for the warnings it misses and the failures it repeats.
Australia wants 80 per cent of working-age people to hold a tertiary qualification by 2050. Yet almost half of workers say they are already overeducated for their jobs. The answer depends on what we think education is ac...
For decades, successive governments have kept unemployment payments in Australia below all accepted measures of adequacy - JobSeeker now sits at just 41% of the minimum wage, and Youth Allowance is even worse at 34%. The...
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has rocketed to global celebrity status with his striking responses to Donald Trump’s chaotic actions in trade policy and geopolitics. On the home front, Carney has been just as frenet...
Australia is repeating the same mistakes it made with Google and Facebook – allowing powerful tech giants to set the rules before governments can work out a way to control them.
The global space economy is becoming another layer of the world's critical infrastructure — is Australia ready to meet the challenge? read now...
National Peace Group condemns US weapons stockpile on Australian soil as a threat to sovereignty and peace
Read More →IPAN Patrons: Emeritus Professor Ian Lowe AO and Kellie Tranter, Lawyer & Human Rights Advocate MEDIA RELEASE ...
Read More →Text of Shirley Winton’s 18 March 2023 peace rally talk opposing AUKUS, nuclear submarines and militarisation, and calling for a broad peace...
Read More →Read the latest newsletter about peace and independence activities around Australia.. Voice No 113 June 2026
Read More →Australians deserve the truth about AUKUS Will AUKUS keep us safe — at what cost? Find more detail here – click here ……………………………………………………………...
Read More →
