Some 300,000 forcibly displaced are living in abject poverty, are unprotected, and subjected to extreme human rights violations on a daily basis: UN
A court has sentenced a 30-year-old man to a five-year prison term for raping a 15-year-old girl
World Food Program warns Haiti is approaching famine like conditions, with more than 1 in 3 people in the country of 11 million in need of urgent assistance
UN monitors report scores of civilians are being killed and wounded, and thousands are fleeing their homes as violence and human rights abuse escalate in northern and northeastern Syria
The UN Human Rights Office blames most of the 269 deaths and more than 8,000 injuries on the use of live ammunition by Iraqi security forces and armed groups
The UN children’s fund warns it will have to cut essential humanitarian programs for hundreds of thousands of children in Syria because it has run out of cash
WHO, UNICEF say up to 20% of adolescents globally experience mental health disorders, with half of these conditions starting before age 14
UN says more than 855,000 children in Cameroon’s North-West and South-West Anglophone regions are out of school, putting their future at risk
More than 300,000 people have been made homeless by some of the worst flooding experienced by Somalia in years
Sanctions imposed on North Korea are failing to advance denuclearization prospects, while causing immense suffering to the civilian population, especially women and children
Study attributes losses in productivity, health and education in El Salvador to, what it calls, 'double burden' of malnutrition and obesity
Call by world body’s human rights office follows killing this week of five indigenous people by criminal gangs
Appeal comes amid increase in the scale and number of physical attacks against media workers in recent years
For example, Swiss glaciers have lost 10 percent of their volume in the past five years, according to experts
UN urges Indian authorities to restore the rights stripped from millions of Muslim inhabitants of Indian-administered Kashmir 12 weeks ago
The UN calls the meeting of the country’s Constitutional Committee an historic moment that could pave the way toward political reform
More than 12,000 Syrian refugees have fled to Iraq in less than two weeks to escape Turkey's military onslaught in Kurdish-controlled areas of northeastern Syria
UN office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs estimates more than 130,000 people are newly displaced and a growing number are living in collective shelters
Unfolding humanitarian crisis in Burkina Faso is devastating country's agriculture and economy, destabilizing communities, and putting the lives of severely malnourished children at risk
Active military operations and security measures at checkpoints are preventing UN agencies from delivering life-saving assistance to millions of civilians
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