Many countries have experienced surges of COVID-19, including at the Olympics, where at least 40 athletes have tested positive
Detainees reportedly have been subject to torture, severe beatings, electrocution and waterboarding
UN agencies say it is another assault on Gazan families already in desperate need of water
UN report finds some 733 million people faced hunger in 2023, equivalent to one in 11 people globally and one in five in Africa
An epidemiological investigation, as well as a risk assessment to identify potential sources of the vaccine-derived polio virus is underway
A breakdown in law and order in Gaza is obstructing efforts to provide humanitarian assistance to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians
World Health Organization finds Sudan is facing its worst levels of acute food insecurity since start of 14-month conflict
UN report says people forced to work in intolerable conditions, placed under constant surveillance, regularly beaten
A surge in violence by armed groups is leading to mass displacement, widespread disease, gender-based violence and severe mental trauma
Negotiations aim to protect civilians, provide humanitarian assistance to millions devastated by conflict
Libyan authorities use arbitrary arrests and detentions, enforced disappearances and detention-related violations to quell political dissent
Probable ‘direct hit’ by a Russian missile kills dozens in Kyiv
The billion-dollar arms trade is ‘helping sustain the junta’s campaign of violence against civilians’ across Myanmar
Refugees and migrants using land routes in Africa increasingly encounter insurgent groups, militias, human traffickers and other criminal actors
The U.N. rights commissioner says government stifles dissent by the arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance of its perceived opponents
A UN report says its people are faced with a devastating humanitarian situation that has ‘no end in sight’
UNHCR is appealing for $1.5 billion, up from $1.4 billion in January, to assist and protect up to 3.3 million Sudanese refugees
At least 834 people were executed in 2023, a 43% increase from the previous year
Widespread use of arbitrary and incommunicado detention, along with enforced disappearance persist unabated in Eritrea, UN official finds
Rights experts accuse Sudan’s warring parties of driving the country into a humanitarian abyss
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