Fragile African countries will receive the bulk of $75 billion in international development aid over the next three years
Refugee and migrant children more vulnerable to deportation and exploitation now than when EU and Turkey agreed to stem migration flows into Europe
Unaccompanied children are vulnerable to human traffickers, sexual predators and criminal organizations
UN accuses Myanmar of long-standing persecution of the Rohingya population
Experts say government has done nothing to end widespread and systematic violations committed against population since UN commission of inquiry issued damning report documenting horrific cases of abuse
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights alarmed at deterioration of human rights in Turkey, particularly that no credible investigation of alleged unlawful killings has taken place
Global human rights system under attack from political rhetoric, UN says
Somalia on brink of famine, with 6.2 million people in need of humanitarian aid
Exposure to harmful pollutants in early childhood can lead to increased risk of chronic respiratory diseases, asthma, heart disease, stroke and cancer later in life
Body parts from people with albinism in some cultures used in witchcraft rituals and traditional medicine in belief they bring wealth, good luck
No breakthrough reached on political solution to civil war, but UN mediator says things are moving in right direction
More than 190,000 Iraqis - half of them children - have fled Mosul since the Iraqi forces launched offensive to retake city from IS militants
Organization hopes to raise $24.6 million to provide life-saving assistance to hundreds of thousands of people at acute risk in country’s drought-stricken areas
Female drug addicts receive fewer treatments than men
20 million people in South Sudan, Somalia, Yemen and northeast Nigeria need food, reports the IOM
Unaccompanied women, children face dire and dangerous conditions en route to Europe
12 families of bacteria pose greatest threat to human health because of growing resistance to existing antibiotics
Human Rights chief Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein says many achievements made in stabilizing world order since end of World War II are at risk of being lost by growing populism
International migration body calls on protesters to take grievances against migrants to local authorities and not take law in their own hands
The number of migrants who died while crossing from Libya to Italy in the first two months of 2017 has more than tripled, compared to the last year, but IOM says this do not reflect real scope of tragedy
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