844,000 people in Borno State vaccinated in effort to contain the deadly disease
Rights violations, abuses have sharply worsened in Ukrainian peninsula since 2014 Russian annexation, UN Human Rights Office reports
Some 12,000 Burundi refugees in Tanzania have asked UN agencies for help in returning home, but IOM says thousands of dollars are needed to transport them back
Rohingya refugee camps are bursting at the seams, risking the outbreak of disease
Witchcraft practitioners in Tanzania, Mozambique and Malawi frequently attack people with albinism in the belief their body parts bring wealth and good luck
Nearly 40 million people die every year from preventable causes, World Health Organization finds
UN investigators find civilians continue to be deliberately targeted
Oral cholera vaccination campaign targets 900,000 people in Nigeria
815 million people globally did not have enough to eat in 2016, 38 million more than the previous year
Washington says nuclear ban treaty will not make the world safer or resolve the threats posed by North Korea
As the crisis worsens, aid agencies increase assistance operations
Fierce clashes among armed groups have led to a new wave of displacement, increased suffering, death and destruction of property
World body says phenomenon, a form of abduction, difficult to track as it takes place in secret
The concealed nature of the $6 billion small arms trade increases chances these weapons will fall into the wrong hands and help fuel conflict and instability.
Myanmar's de-facto leader faces withering condemnation over plight of Rohingya Muslims refugees; U.N. Security Council to discuss crisis on Wednesday
Refugee children in poor countries are six times less likely to go to school
Risk of exploitation and trafficking particularly high, says joint UNICEF/Organization for Migration study
Number of Rohingya Muslims who have fled to Bangladesh now estimated at 370,000
Governments increasingly are moving toward authoritarianism and oppression, crushing human rights values and protections
One person around the world commits suicide every 40 seconds, resulting in 800,000 self-inflicted deaths every year
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