Lebanon war: Essential services in south facing collapse, warns UN
“Today, Israeli airstrikes hit the town of Nabatieh in southern Lebanon, yet again... As the theatre and intensity of the exchanges of fire continue to...
US: Rights experts urge Senate to reject bill sanctioning the International Criminal Court
The ICC issued arrest warrants in November for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes and...
Catastrophic hunger doubles in 2024; Gaza and Sudan worst hit
The updated Global Report on Food Crises reveals that nearly two million people are now grappling with the most critical level of food insecurity,...
Ukraine: UN refugee agency helps repair homes amid ongoing conflict
In the fourth year of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, housing remains one of the country’s most urgent humanitarian and recovery challenges. The destruction...
France: Hijab ban during sports, ‘discriminatory and must be reversed’ say experts
The UN Human Rights Council-appointed experts criticised the decision by the French football and basketball federations to exclude players wearing the hijab from competitions, including...
Deadly quake strikes Philippines on first day of school year
At least 19 people were killed, along with extensive damage to hospitals, homes and classrooms.The 7.8 magnitude quake struck at 7:37am local time (7:37pm...
Mozambique: ‘Civilians were killed, some were even beheaded’
The agency reports that close to 100,000 have been newly displaced in the past two weeks alone, following intensified attacks on villages and a...
Gaza: Ceasefire urgently needed as civilians left with ‘no safe place’ to go
“We are witnessing a dangerous escalation in Gaza City, where Israeli forces have stepped up their operations and ordered everyone to move south,” said...
Hunger and a heatwave plague the Gaza Strip
Recently, Israel has denied fewer humanitarian movements but approved missions “still take hours to complete and teams have been compelled to wait on roads...
West Bank crisis: UN chief calls for immediate halt to Israeli strikes
Mr. Guterres’s intervention late Wednesday comes amid one of the biggest Israeli Security Forces (ISF) operations in the West Bank in years – the...
Security Council urged to support eastern DR Congo peace initiatives
In a briefing to ambassadors, UN Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region Huang Xia called for increased coordination of peace processes.He noted that...
New UN report details Nicaragua’s ongoing human rights crisis
Human rights violations in Nicaragua have been ongoing since 2018 when university students and other civil society activists began protesting a new Social Security...
Gaza: UN agencies calls for aid ‘surge’ as Israeli distribution plan begins
After nearly three months of complete blockade by Israel, a “vastly insufficient” amount of aid was finally allowed into the war-ravaged enclave in the...
World News in Brief: Türk speaks out on sexual violence, Brazil floods update, Nicaraguan...
“We are not meeting the minimum requirement to prevent women from being silenced, and support their participation and leadership in…building peace,” Mr. Türk said.25 years...
UNRWA headquarters bulldozed in East Jerusalem
Responding to the dramatic development, head of the UN agency for Palestine refugees Philippe Lazzarini described it as an “unprecedented attack” against the UN,...
From Syria, UN refugee chief calls for greater solidarity with displaced people
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, sounded the alarm on Friday, World Refugee Day, in a message from Syria.He said the abject...
MIDDLE EAST LIVE 24 March: West Bank attacks in focus
As the war continues to roil the Middle East and compound suffering for civilians across the region, the economic ramifications of the emergency are...
Faith Through the Lens of Science: American Researcher Shares Simple Formula that Proves God’s...
Award-winning scientist Nathanael-Israel Israel, Ph.D., (www.Israel120.com) was examining facts and figures on the origins of the universe when he uncovered “a gold mine of...
Middle East war: Women in Lebanon forced to give birth on roadside
“There’s 11,600 pregnant women who are affected, 4,000 are anticipated to give birth over the next three months,” said Anandita Philipose, Lebanon Representative for the...
Myanmar quake: ‘I constantly worry – what if another earthquake happens?’
The 7.7 magnitude earthquake which struck shortly before 1 PM local time on 28 March, was the strongest in recent memory.As aftershocks continue, UN...
Gaza: UN staff now fainting from hunger, exhaustion; WHO worker detained
“Doctors, nurses, journalists, humanitarians, among them UNRWA staff, are hungry…fainting due to hunger and exhaustion while performing their duties,” said Juliette Touma, Director of...
Gaza Strip: Humanitarians warn of worsening famine conditions, attacks on civilians
Of the 154 malnutrition-related deaths since October 2023 (including 89 children) reported by Gazan health authorities, the World Health Organization (WHO) said 63 occurred...
‘Don’t cut the aid’: Insecurity worsens for stateless Rohingya, says UNHCR’s Grandi
In a joint appeal, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, and the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) urged all countries to step up to...
Syria crisis: more than 280,000 uprooted in northwest escalation
Aid has continued to flow from Türkiye across three border crossings into the embattled northwest and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said that...
