Human rights for all, still ‘work in progress’ warns Türk
The UN human rights office, OHCHR, and its mandate has become a powerful vehicle for change, progress, dignity, and justice, yet “this is far...
First Person: ‘Born fighting’ for rights of Black Brazilians
Organized under the theme, Realizing the dream: A UN declaration on the promotion, protection and full respect of the human rights of people of...
Critical humanitarian situation in Central African Republic
Of this number, 2.4 million “have needs so severe and complex that their survival and dignity is at risk,” Mohamed Ag Ayoya, UN Humanitarian...
UN agency for Palestine refugees on verge of financial collapse
Chronic underfunding over the past decade, and resultant severe austerity measures, mean UNRWA is already operating with a $75 million shortfall, putting its lifesaving...
Sudan: Crisis fuels ‘desperate’ situation for civilians
Since the conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces began, more than 1.2 million people have been displaced within the...
Time running out to save Myanmar’s Rakhine from hunger and disease post-Cyclone Mocha
Some 1.6 million people in Rakhine, Chin, Magway, Sagaing, and Kachin states are in dire need of assistance after Mocha’s 250 kilometre per hour wind gusts...
Ukraine: Over 1,500 children killed or injured, concern rises over forced transfers
Russian attacks overnight, killed three people – including the girl’s mother – and wounded 11 others, according to news reports. It followed a reported...
UN and partners seek $7 billion to prevent catastrophe in the Horn of Africa
More than 43 million people across Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia continue to suffer through one of the worst droughts in recent history, caused by...
WFP plan aims to prevent further food aid diversion in Ethiopia
WFP had paused distributions in the restive Tigray region in the north after finding evidence of significant supplies on sale in local markets, and...
Cyclone Mocha: urgent funding needed as hunger, diseases loom
In Myanmar, the UN appealed on Tuesday for $333 million to assist 1.6 million of the most vulnerable people, many of whom have lost...
El Salvador: Renewed state of emergency undermines right to fair trial
the UN Human Rights Council said on Monday.
The state of emergency was first approved in March 2022, and initially for a month, but has...
UN marks International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia
Mentioning this year’s theme in a statement to mark the day, Together Always: United in Diversity, the UN chief called on leaders ‘to speak...
Dozens feared dead in Myanmar as Cyclone Mocha creates ‘nightmare scenario’
With coastal winds recorded at up to 250 kilometers per hour making landfall off the Bay of Bengal, the storm tore through villages in...
UN marks 75 years since displacement of 700,000 Palestinians
The mass displacement in 1948, known as the Nakba (meaning “catastrophe” in Arabic), has an importance to Palestinians across the world, said Rosemary DiCarlo,...
Avoiding disaster in a dangerous world
For Malawians, Cyclone Freddy was an unmitigated disaster. In March this year, the storm ripped through the African country twice during its record-breaking month-long...
UN agencies call for more collaboration over refugee, migration crisis in Americas
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) issued a call for a more collaborative approach to better respond to...
Sudan’s warring generals take ‘important first step’ on humanitarian protection
Volker Perthes – Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan and Head of the UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in the country (UNITAMS) –...
Sudan displacement doubles in one week, says IOM
Speaking at a press briefing at the United Nations in Geneva, IOM’s spokesperson Paul Dillon said that according to IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix, more...
Sudan crisis: Guterres condemns looting of main WFP compound in Khartoum
In a statement issued by his Spokesperson, António Guterres noted that “most, if not all, United Nations agencies and our humanitarian partners, have been impacted by large-scale...
First Person: Caught in the crossfire in Sudan
At the same time, UN agencies are also helping to provide emergency relief support, including the International Organization for Migration (IOM), whose Displacement Tracking...
Human rights experts alarmed over ‘imminent executions’ in Saudi Arabia
“Despite being charged with terrorism, they were reportedly arrested for resisting forced evictions in the name of the NEOM project and the construction of...
Sudan: ‘Secure and immediate access’ needed for lifesaving aid, urges Guterres
António Guterres was speaking to journalists in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, where he will be chairing a meeting of chief executives from across the...
Fragile gains on reducing child marriage, under threat from ‘polycrisis’: UNICEF
Currently, one in five young women aged 20 to 24, were married as children, versus nearly one in four a decade ago, according to...
Sudan latest: Tens of thousands on the move; spectre of ethnic clashes, hunger draws...
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said that tens of thousands of refugees from South Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea living in the country have fled the...
