Despite growing risks, humanitarians uphold commitment to serve #NoMatterWhat
Conflict and insecurity in countries such as South Sudan and its neighbour to the north are set to make 2023 another year…
Repel intensifying attacks on schools, urges Guterres
Marking the International Day to Protect Education from Attack, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres said it was important to defend “havens of education”. “Education…
UN and partners providing aid for vulnerable across Ethiopia as 1.2 million children suffer acute malnutrition
The UN and partners are responding to disease outbreaks and an ongoing food insecurity crisis across Ethiopia which has left 1.2 million…
DR Congo: Children facing worst cholera outbreak in six years
A spike in conflict and displacement in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is pushing children into the worst cholera…
Hundreds of thousands trafficked into online criminality across SE Asia
OHCHR said that at least 120,000 people across Myanmar and another 100,000 in Cambodia may be held in situations where they are…
Protecting humanitarians 20 years after deadly Baghdad attack, amid rising risks
expertise, and accountability at its core,” they added. “As a result, in 2005, the United Nations Department of Safety and Security,…
UN expert urges immediate review of discredited UK sentencing scheme
As of the end of 2022, close to 2,900 people were still being held under the scheme. Unresolved legacy Between 2005 and…
UN rights chief calls for immediate restoration of constitutional order in Niger
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, called on Friday for Niger’s democratically elected officials to be released “at once”,…
DR Congo: Few worse places to be a child warns UNICEF as twins found boobytrapped
DR Congo has the highest tally of UN-verified grave violations against children in places experiencing armed conflict
Lebanon: School occupations condemned as violence grips Palestine refugee camp
Thousands of children have been put at risk amid a resurgence of violence at a Palestine refugee camp in Lebanon, the UN’s…