Nearly 64,000 flee Nigeria for Niger where a humanitarian crisis is deepening
Violence in northern Nigeria is fueling a growing humanitarian crisis across the whole region: 64,000 have fled to neighbouring Niger and several hundred have...
A Theoretical Physicist Interviewed Dr. Nathanael-Israel Israel on Skyward TV Channel
The God’Existence Formula that Smart Atheists Will Like.Award-winning scientist Dr. Nathanael-Israel Israel, Founder of Science180 (www.Science180.com) joins Host Theoretical Physicist Stefan Zaichkowski of Skyward...
Sudan war: First suicide bombers, now long-range drone strikes are the norm
Drones and drought are “closing in” on Sudan, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF, said on Tuesday, describing unprecedented attacks on the country’s infrastructure including...
Families who fled Ethiopia for Kenya’s Moyale need food, water and shelter
The International Organization of Migration (IOM) and partners are calling for urgent funding to support tens of thousands of people who have escaped violent...
Beyond the broken glass: The human cost of the 1938 November Pogrom
More than 87 years later, Rabbi Schneier told a UN panel in New York that the memory has never left him.It shaped a lifelong...
Afghanistan faces deepening humanitarian crisis amid sweeping rights restrictions
Afghanistan stands at a “difficult crossroad” more than five years after the Taliban returned to power, a senior UN official said on Friday. Relative...
Sudan’s suffering is plain for all to see say aid teams, as brutal war...
Aid teams working to help millions of people uprooted by the ongoing war in Sudan appealed on Friday for more international assistance amid desperate...
‘No Escape’ for refugees on the frontlines of the climate crisis
The climate emergency is an immediate crisis for refugees, with three in four – nearly 90 million people – living in countries facing high...
Breaking the silence in Mexico’s barracks
“If an officer says, ‘Come into my bedroom,’ she must go in, otherwise she would be disobeying an order from her superior,” she told...
DPR Korea: Isolation deepens even as the country changes, says UN rights official
That is the picture painted by James Heenan, head of the UN human rights office (OHCHR) in the South Korean capital, Seoul. His team...
Ending conflict is ‘number one thing’ to reduce world hunger, new WFP chief says
Reducing conflict is the single most effective way to tackle global hunger, the new head of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), Luke Lindberg,...
Protecting the storytellers: Women journalists on the frontline of conflict
As online abuse, gender-based attacks and impunity ramp up the threats to women reporting from crisis zones, journalists and UN leaders are calling for...
West Bank: Hebron crackdown displaces thousands, Türk warns of ethnic cleansing
The UN aid coordination office, OCHA, said aid partners are supporting local authorities in Hebron to meet the needs of more than 3,000 people...
West Bank: Guterres alarmed as Israel imposes sweeping closures after deadly Hebron attack
Two Israeli soldiers were killed and at least five injured when gunmen opened fire near a military checkpoint outside the city, according to news...
Yemen: Deepening concerns for Taiz City as aid is blocked from entering
“It’s 20 days and counting since Taiz has been cut off…we are seeing increasingly that the fighting makes it impossible for us to get...
Mothers get nearly eight times more paid leave than fathers – and women pay...
On average, mothers receive 196 days of paid leave and fathers just 25, says the policy brief from gender equality agency UN Women and the...
‘Connect the dots’ between street protests and global turmoil, urges Guterres
Speaking to reporters in New York ahead of a visit to Egypt, António Guterres addressed growing public discontent in Europe and beyond, as people...
Sudan conflict: Peace efforts resume to end ‘drone war’ fuelling humanitarian crisis
Talks to halt the fighting in Sudan and alleviate the humanitarian crisis there continued in Geneva on Wednesday, where nearly two dozen countries convened...
Hunger is ‘an avoidable tragedy’ in a world of plenty: Türk
Addressing the UN-hosted Committee on World Food Security in Rome, the High Commissioner said that while the right to food has found its way...
Gaza: Funding cuts leave half a million without food assistance
WFP said that its food assistance “has provided a lifeline for up to 90 per cent of families in Gaza” over the past three years.Since...
Afghanistan faces record hunger levels amid rampant rights violations
UN agency heads are calling for emergency support to stem the crisis, as a separate report details serious human rights violations – from public...
Sudan: Drought and war push Darfur and Kordofan towards famine
In a new alert, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) said fresh evidence shows malnutrition getting worse in several hotspots. Aid is not...
