Activists say HIV/AIDS can be ended as a public health threat by 2030 if nations can muster the political will and critical financial support needed
Multiple crises have pushed more than 122 million people into hunger since 2019 to reach an unprecedented high of 735 million
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, more than 9,000 civilians, including at least 500 children, have been killed, Volker Türk said
Lack of tolerance for other beliefs has led to discrimination and violence, council says
UN experts say Myanmar's brutal military rulers rely on 'systematic control tactics, fear, and terror' to maintain their iron grip on power
Human rights in Iran continue to deteriorate with reports of arbitrary arrests, sexual and gender-based violence, torture, enforced disappearances, and deaths of peaceful protesters
Conditions will be particularly difficult for millions of people during the peak of the lean season, from June to August, when food stocks are at their lowest
A blistering new report by the UN human rights office says neither side in Russia’s war against Ukraine is without fault but that Moscow is guilty of most of the crimes and cases of abuse
East Africa is experiencing unprecedented levels of food insecurity, with nearly 60 million people not getting enough to eat to remain active and healthy
UN Rights Chief Türk says this is a human rights and humanitarian crisis that is unfolding at an alarming rate on a devastating scale and with a complexity not seen before in Sudan
UN officials call for solutions for the more than 35 million refugees and asylum seekers forced to flee their homes in search of protection from conflict and other calamities
Volker Türk says countries are failing to honor the fundamental rights and freedoms enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The number of people forcibly displaced by war, persecution, human rights abuse and climate change reached an all-time high of 108.4 million last year
Ukrainian authorities say the destruction of the dam has flooded large swathes of agricultural land, fully or partially submerged at least 80 towns and villages in the Kherson region and uprooted an estimated 17,000 people
Latest International Labor Organization figures show 160 million children are engaged in child labor; that's nearly 1 in 10 worldwide
While people are dying from shelling and gunfire, the lack of humanitarian aid and a rapidly deteriorating human rights situation compound their plight
At least 80 towns and villages in the Kherson region are fully or partially flooded, as well as thousands of hectares of agricultural lands
World Meteorological Organization cites greenhouse gases and expected El Niño weather pattern
Humanitarians find their efforts to provide aid to survivors of the cyclone frustrated by bureaucratic and political restrictions imposed by Myanmar's military rulers
FAO report says full locust outbreak this year could result in losses of more than a million metric tons of wheat and economic losses of up to $500 million
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