Aid agencies will present humanitarian and human rights issues on behalf of millions of people caught in conflict, poverty and natural disasters
Some 9,000 Nigerian refugees fled across the border seeking protection from Boko Haram attacks
U.N. officials deplore the excessive use of force against people protesting the rise of fuel prices and limited access to basic goods and services
List of 3,200 participants reads like the Who's Who of the most powerful, successful and inventive movers and shakers in the world
Cuts in food rations have forced many women and girls to use negative coping mechanisms, including 'survival sex, and forced and early marriage'
Official says no large-scale repatriation should take place until displaced can return to Syria in conditions of safety and dignity
The campaign encourages people to run, walk or cycle to reach the cumulative total of 2 billion kilometers traveled annually by refugees to reach the first point of safety
Nabeel Rajab has been in prison for two-and-a-half years after tweeting criticism about Saudi Arabia's airstrikes in Yemen and alleging torture inside Jau Prison
Biometric registration system implemented in Aden has successfully weeded out people not entitled to food assistance
Five solar-powered safe water systems are providing clean drinking water for more than 40,000 Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar on a daily basis
Awami League political opponents, media professionals, human rights defenders and other critics are being restrained from speaking out
Inter-ethnic clashes in DRC have killed dozens of people and injured many more, driving 16,000 people to flee to Congo-Brazzaville
Anti-government demonstrations preceding presidential elections on December 26 disrupted key Ebola response activities in some affected areas of the province
The WHO says all gains that have been made in fighting Ebola in North Kivu are at risk because of the upsurge in violence
Guterres warns climate change is moving faster than it can be controlled, while deepening geo-political divisions make conflicts more difficult to resolve
Children are tortured, raped, used as human shields or suicide bombers, and recruited as child soldiers by armed groups, organization says
United Nations has documented hundreds of abuses of the right to life, deprivation of liberty, enforced disappearance, torture and ill-treatment, sexual violence, and unlawful or arbitrary detention
The more than 6,600 reported deaths of African migrants over the past five years are 'just the tip of the iceberg'
Infestation of boring beetles is damaging bamboo structures sheltering 240,000 Rohingya families, and it's a race against time to complete job before monsoon season
The UN Humanitarian Air Service needs $3 million to keep it operating
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