UN report: Sexual violence is used as a means of torture mainly against male victims in detention and of rapes targeting women in villages under Russian control
Measures of repression, intimidation aimed at suppressing dissent continue unabated in Belarus
‘Civilians continue to be killed on a daily basis in a senseless war that has left the country economically and politically broken,’ a UN report says
UNICEF reports children under 19 comprise two-thirds of the nearly 600 reported cases of mpox in Burundi
Maduro's government crushes peaceful opposition, plunging the nation into an acute human rights crisis, UN report says
Report contains harrowing accounts of large-scale human rights violations, including indiscriminate aerial attacks against civilians, schools, and hospitals
The campaign to vaccinate more than 640,000 children under 10 is set to begin Sunday
Breakthroughs for greater humanitarian aid access achieved in first round of Sudan peace talks, which wrapped up last week, are holding, expanding, US special envoy says
Refugees and displaced in the DRC and other African countries risk illness and death from mpox because of living conditions
UN agencies are scaling up cholera prevention and treatment programs to tackle a second wave of a cholera in Sudan
US-brokered peace talks on Sudan have failed to end the country's 16-month conflict but have gained greater humanitarian access to millions of people in dire straits
Basic public health measures can stop Mpox outbreaks and potentially eliminate transmission of the virus, the WHO says
US special envoy for Sudan Tom Perriello says efforts to achieve humanitarian access to millions of desperately needy Sudanese are moving forward but cease-fire negotiations remain dormant
Aid agencies are gearing up to deliver aid to Zamzam IDP camp, near El Fasher, North Darfur where famine was declared two weeks ago
U.N. investigative body says there is ‘substantial evidence’ Myanmar’s military targeted civilians, in violation of international human rights law
The extent of the horrors and atrocities inflicted upon children in Sudan is going unnoticed because it is not being reported, UNICEF says
‘We will not be able to do in-person mediated talks with the parties, if the parties are not there - even if only one party is not there,’ US envoy says
The 2023 youth unemployment rate of 13% represents a fall from the 2019 pre-pandemic rate of 13.8%, the ILO reports
Seasonal rains and floods are upending lives in Sudan, as El Nino-induced drought sweeps across Southern Africa
High temperatures have devastating effect on communities, people’s health, ecosystems and economies, say experts
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