World News in Brief: Terror attacks in Pakistan and Burkina Faso, Yemen floods update,...
Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin, an Al-Qaeda-affiliated group, claimed responsibility for the attack in Burkina Faso on August 24. The attacks in Pakistan, which took...
Relentless crisis in Haiti: One in eight children internally displaced
The latest data reveals that over 500,000 children have been forced from their homes – a shocking 48 per cent increase since September.In total,...
Yemen: One in two children severely malnourished after 10 years of war
“We need to move fast,” said UNICEF representative in the country Peter Hawkins. “I was in Hudaydah over the past three days...I went through...
Interview this mind-blowing expert on the science behind the Biblical account of creation –...
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People from all nations and all educational background including scientists, laypeople, religious and nonreligious people have been trying to understand the...
Major step forward for child protection in Colombia, as politicians ban underage marriage
In November, following several failed attempts, politicians of all stripes approved a bill to overhaul legislation that has been in effect since 1887, reflecting...
Sudan’s people tortured and killed in ‘slaughterhouses’, rights probe says
Shortly after presenting a mandated report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Tuesday, chair of the Fact-Finding Mission on Sudan, Mohamed Chande...
Human Rights Council elects Indonesian candidate President for 2026
Under Council rules, presidents are appointed to serve for one year by the body’s 47 Member States, based in Geneva.Ambassador Sidharto Reza Suryodipuro will...
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,...
Gaza City lifelines collapsing, UN aid agency warns
The warning comes as the head of UN Palestine refugee agency UNRWA renewed his call for foreign journalists to be allowed into the Gaza...
Internally displaced families in Yemen need increased aid: UNHCR
The update highlights information from the first half of 2024 and reveals that 4.5 million people are displaced and 18.2 million overall require humanitarian...
Haiti: Violence and displacement driving humanitarian crisis as funding needs go unmet
Nearly 1.3 million people in the Caribbean country have fled their homes, with an additional 15,000 uprooted last week after armed attacks in the...
Aid access and hospital operations remain constrained in Gaza
Briefing reporters in New York on Wednesday, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said hostilities in parts of the Gaza Strip are still resulting in casualties...
World News in Brief: Winter attacks in Ukraine, looming food aid cuts in Nigeria,...
They include attacks in Odesa region on Wednesday that killed a 17-year-old boy, according to UN child rights agency UNICEF which called for an “end to attacks on civilian areas and the infrastructure children rely on.” The...
‘A war of atrocities’ – UN human rights investigators warn Sudanese civilians are paying...
“They burned everything,” said one witness of a shelling attack in the Zamzam displacement camp in war-torn Darfur. “They claimed they only wanted to...
Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online...
With more than 5.5 billion people connected online – nearly all of them active on social media – digital platforms have become central to...
Sudan drone attacks raise fears for civilian safety and aid efforts
“These attacks appear to be the latest in a series of retaliatory military operations, conducted by the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese Armed...
UN rights office warns of ‘dangerous tipping point’ as abuses surge in Sudan
In a new report, UN investigators detailed multiple attacks on civilians, healthcare facilities, markets, and schools, as well as ethnically motivated summary executions.“The continued...
Gaza: Access to key water facility in Khan Younis disrupted, UN reports
According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Israeli authorities issued displacement orders overnight for two neighbourhoods in Khan Younis,...
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...
More than one million children in Gaza deprived of aid for over a month:...
No aid has been allowed into Gaza since 2 March, representing the longest period of aid blockage since the start of the war, resulting...
Sudan: Kordofan cannot become ‘another El Fasher,’ Türk warns
The once allied Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been locked in brutal conflict since April 2023, with the...
UN rights chief adds voice to urgent calls for Middle East de-escalation
The development came as UN Secretary-General António Guterres condemned “escalation after escalation” in the Middle East on Tuesday and as UN High Commissioner for...
Sudan: Suffering continues amid massive destruction across Khartoum
Mohamed Refaat, IOM Chief of Mission in Sudan, was speaking to reporters after returning from previously inaccessible Khartoum state, which is now back under...
UN rights chief urges probe into Russian attack that killed nine children in Ukraine
Volker Türk issued a statement expressing shock at the attack, which occurred on Friday evening as families gathered near a playground, a restaurant and...
