World News in Brief: Nigeria airstrikes condemned, supporting Venezuelan migrants and refugees, weapons in...
OHCHR issued a statement deploring the latest strike – the fourth since 2017 – which took place in Kaduna state in the north on...
World News in Brief: Strikes in Ukraine condemned, surge in Rohingya deaths at sea,...
“I was having coffee at home this morning in Kyiv, my neighbours were getting ready for work, children preparing to go to school, when...
Rights expert finds ‘reasonable grounds’ genocide is being committed in Gaza
Francesca Albanese was speaking at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, where she presented her latest report, entitled ‘Anatomy of a Genocide’, during...
UN underscores commitment to stay and deliver in Myanmar
The expansion of fighting throughout the country has deprived communities of basic needs and access to essential services and has had a devastating impact...
Iran: Repression continues two years after nationwide protests
Addressing the Human Rights Council in Geneva, the International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran – a group of Council-appointed independent experts - said that Ms. Amini’s...
World News in Brief: South Sudan tax impositions, Somalia flash floods, Ukraine attacks
“Until they are released, we will not be able to conduct many of our activities in support of the communities in need across the...
Gaza: Kaag working closely with partners on new maritime aid lifeline
In a joint statement released on Friday, the Commission, Cyprus, the United Arab Emirates, the United States and the United Kingdom announced their intent...
Israel’s new aid ban on UNRWA in Gaza ‘a wrong move’: UN coordinator
On the heels of Israel’s announcement on Sunday that it would no longer approve aid shipments into northern Gaza by the UN agency for...
Global Refugee Forum ends with bold pledges, solutions for displaced
Speaking at the closing of the Global Refugee Forum, the Secretary-General said that protection and help for these most vulnerable of people, was “an...
Children of Gaza spread joy for Ramadan, despite the war
While ceasefire talks failed to end the five-month-long conflict that has killed nearly 32,000 Palestinians – most of them women and children – the...
UN migration agency assists survivors of deadly shipwreck off Djibouti
The migrants were on a boat carrying at least 77 people from Ras al-Ara off Yemen’s coast which capsized off the coast of Djibouti,...
‘Fear and loss’ multiplies in Sudan exodus
At least 1.8 million among them fled across the border into neighbouring, South Sudan, Chad, Central African Republic, Egypt and Ethiopia; as well as...
First Person: Christmas under rocket fire in Ukraine
In Ukraine, there was no respite from war over the holiday period, neither for the country’s citizens, nor the UN workers attempting to deliver...
First Person: ‘I no longer amount to anything’ – Voices of the displaced in...
He and others spoke to Eline Joseph, who works for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Port-au-Prince with a team which provides psychosocial...
Massive displacement as fighting surges in eastern DR Congo
Fresh fighting since last week in the region has displaced an estimated 135,000 people from the town of Sake – on the northern banks...
Mass graves in Gaza show victims’ hands were tied, says UN rights office
The development follows the recovery of hundreds of bodies “buried deep in the ground and covered with waste” over the weekend at Nasser Hospital...
Mother makes 200km emergency trip across rural Madagascar to save baby
“I thought I was going to lose my baby and die on the journey to hospital.”The chilling words of Samueline Razafindravao, who had to...
Gazans eating wild plants to survive
Their journey begins in the open fields every morning in search of these plants, which include cheeseweed - known locally as khubeezeh - which...
World News in Brief: Rights chief dismay over Uganda anti-LGBT law, Haiti update, aid...
In a statement, Volker Türk urged authorities in Kampala to repeal it in its entirety, together with other discriminatory legislation passed into law by...
UN’s Grandi welcomes EU deal overhauling regional migration system
Agreement in Brussels on the New Pact on Migration and Asylum reportedly followed three years of intense negotiations, and it should start taking effect...
Latest Mediterranean deaths highlight need for safe migration routes
IOM underscored the need for regular migration pathways at a one-day summit in Rome hosted by Italy to boost development in Africa and curb migration flows.The conference...
World News in Brief: Looming famine threat for Sudan, 3.3 million in need near...
After nearly a year of brutal civil war between rival militaries, food production has been hit and communities face acute shortages of other essential...
Gaza: UN aid team reaches stricken north, confirms ‘shocking’ disease and hunger
The UN’s top aid official in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Jamie McGoldrick, reached Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahia on Thursday, where children with...
Global Refugee Forum opens amid ‘crisis of humanity’
The world’s largest gathering dedicated to refugee issues, the Forum is co-hosted by UNHCR and Switzerland and convened by Colombia, France, Japan, Jordan and...
