Iraq: Civilian casualty figure for February tops 1,000
More than 1,000 civilians were killed or injured last month in Iraq, the United Nations mission in the country has announced.
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UN-backed narcotics control body calls for more policies to address drug dependence among women
Citing a significant rise over the past year in the number of women dying from drug overdoses globally, the independent expert body which monitors Governments’ compliance with the United Nations...
Financial speculation led to unsustainable global housing crisis, UN expert says
The world's money markets have priced people out of cities, a United Nations independent expert has said, blaming financial markets and speculators for treating housing as a “place to park capital.”
Humanitarian actors need safe, unhindered access to help Yemen avert famine – UN aid chief
The people of crisis-torn Yemen urgently need humanitarian assistance and protection, especially in the north of the country where there is a threat of famine, the United Nations Emergency Relief...
UN migration agency reports surge in displacement from Mosul as fighting intensifies
The United Nations migration agency reported thousands of new arrivals at Iraqi sites for the internally displaced persons (IDPs) fleeing Mosul’s western sector where fighting is taking place...
Israel: Detention of Palestinian journalist on hunger strike without charge ‘unjust and cruel’
"Israel’s administrative detention which is predominately used to detain Palestinians without charge or trial is arbitrary and abusive" said Magdalena Mughrabi, Deputy Middle East and North Africa...
South Sudan: UN official calls for unfettered relief access to avert further catastrophe
With hundreds of thousands in need of assistance in famine-struck parts of South Sudan and rising insecurity hampering relief work, a senior United Nations relief official in the country has called...
how Trump’s border wall would lock refugees in a life of violence and fear
Here you can't walk around freely. For the children it’s like living in a prison, because they are scared. In schools there are many gang members who harass and scare them.
Yemen's health system another victim of the conflict – UN health agency
Acute shortage of critical medicines, limited fuel for electricity and specialized medical staff such as intensive care doctors and nurses having left Yemen have put innocent lives in danger, the...
UN refugee agency focuses on sheltering displaced as Iraqi offensive moves to west Mosul
The United Nations refugee agency is focusing efforts on camp construction in and around the Iraqi city of Mosul, where renewed fighting could displace up to 250,000 people.
'Time running out' for 1.4 million children in 'man-made' crises in Africa, Yemen – UNICEF
Almost 1.4 million children are at imminent risk of death due to severe acute malnutrition this year, as famine threatens in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, warned the United Nations...
Iraq: UN aid agencies preparing for 'all scenarios' as western Mosul military operations set to begin
With military operations to retake western Mosul starting, United Nations humanitarian agencies in Iraq are rushing to prepare for the humanitarian impact of the fighting amid grave concerns that...
Bahrain: Fears of further violent crackdown on uprising anniversary
Bahrain is at a tipping point. The first two months of 2017 alone saw an alarming upsurge in arbitrary and abusive force by security forces as well as the first executions since the uprising in 2011
Iraq: UN condemns car bomb attack in Baghdad
The United Nations condemned the deadly terrorist attack in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, for which the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da’esh) has claimed responsibility.
Yemen: Senior UN aid official ‘appalled’ by airstrikes that kill women and children
The top United Nations humanitarian official in Yemen said he was extremely saddened and appalled by the airstrikes that killed six women and a girl gathering for a funeral in a private residence...
Civilians in Syria’s ‘Four Towns’ need support as humanitarian catastrophe looms – UN relief official
A senior United Nations relief official has called on all parties to come to an agreement and allow immediate and unfettered humanitarian access to more than 60,000 civilians trapped in four Syrian...
Japanese scholar’s studies on Iranians injured by chemical weapons published in Persian
The studies of Japanese scholar Shizuko Tsuya about Iranian victims of chemical warfare have recently been published in Persian.
Afghanistan: UN mission expresses grave concern at high civilian casualties in Helmand
The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) expressed its grave concern at the recent escalation of violence in Helmand province, which reportedly claimed the lives of at least 25 civilians,...
Donald Trump Is Alienating His Most Valuable Allies
Dark days lie ahead for everybody who cares about human rights, and especially for refugees, but the huge civic opposition and legal challenges we are already seeing show that there is light still....
Yemen: As food crisis worsens, UN agencies call for urgent assistance to avert catastrophe [Around 200 displaced families live in an informal settlement in Dharwan, Yemen. Here, a 12-year old girl keeps watch over her younger brothers. Photo: UNHCR/Mohamm
The number of food insecure people in Yemen has risen by three million in seven months, with an estimated 17.1 million people – more than two-thirds of the entire population of 27.4 million – now...