Roberto Azevedo will step down Aug. 31, one year before his second term was to expire
Aid agencies have been dreading an outbreak of COVID-19 in Rohingya refugee settlements in Bangladesh which, according to the UNHCR, house some 860,000 refugees
Human rights leader says failure to address social and economic inequalities will make it more difficult to contain COVID-19 and will likely lead to future crises
World body says people suffering from fear, loneliness, economic upheaval and any abuse triggered by the pandemic must receive mental health support
World Food Program warns COVID-19 pandemic threatens to boost the number of hungry people in Middle East and North African region to more than 47 million
WMO: We are seeing now that the human influence on our climate is stronger, more powerful than natural sources of nature, such as El Nino
Upsurge in attacks forces 23,000 people to cross the border
In the last two months, UN Refugee Agency reports more than 200,000 people have been forced to flee surging violence between Lendu and Hema groups in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ituri Province
European nations are preventing humanitarian search and rescue vessels from saving migrants in distress in the Central Mediterranean Sea
World body's refugee agency says urgent international help is needed to help millions of Somalis
Pandemic is diverting attention from war in Syria and encouraging armed groups, including the Islamic State, to regroup or re-emerge, says UN's top human rights official
World Health Organization says methods used to rid world of smallpox can be used today to tackle COVID-19
Growing discrimination against migrants, who often are blamed for spreading the coronavirus, impede efforts to tackle the pandemic
UN officials say fear of infection and lack of proper healthcare have triggered deadly prison riots in the Americas region
The World Food Program warns the pandemic is likely to more than double the number of people facing hunger in West Africa by the end of the year to 43 million
The agency says an unprecedented 19 million children have been forced to flee their homes and are living within their own countries without proper care and protection
Security forces reportedly burst into the Mentao refugee camp a day after Burkina Faso soldiers came under fire by one of the many armed groups in the region
Activists say the abysmal human rights records of Russia, Cuba and Saudi Arabia disqualify them from membership to the 47-nation UN Human Rights Council
Eleven Ethiopians who escaped suffocation in a smuggler’s truck have been repatriated from Mozambique
Torrential rains and flooding throughout the country have caused serious damage to vital infrastructure already decimated by years of civil war
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