Call to action aims to raise $76 million in life-saving assistance for more than one million people in African country
Aid workers granted one-time access to two Eritrean refugee camps found conditions dire and refugees in desperate straits
Chief of World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, warns inequitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines between rich and poor countries will prolong global pandemic
Agencies working to relocate thousands to safer areas
The number of refugees fleeing the Central African Republic into neighboring countries has doubled in just one week from 30,000 last Friday to 60,000 now
Lack of food, water and health services are affecting hundreds of thousands of people and leading to a rise in malnutrition and water-borne diseases
UN inquiry finds Peru's security forces were unnecessarily harsh in their crackdown against anti-government mass protests last November
Prior to pandemic, an estimated 260 million people, representing 7.9 percent of global employment worked from home
Five years of recurrent drought and COVID-19 pandemic have left 1.3 million wondering where next meal will come from
Ugandan political conditions are stacked against free and fair parliamentary and presidential elections this week, UN officials say
An increasing number of journalists, bloggers, online commentators and human rights defenders are arbitrarily detained on vaguely defined laws
More than 30,000 refugees are estimated to have fled to neighboring countries, 62,000 remain in CAR
More than 1.5 million people in 193 countries were surveyed about their hopes, fears, and expectations for the future
Bachelet says deliberate distortion of facts, incitement to violence and hatred by political leaders triggered attack
UN health agency also says there is no evidence that new variants of COVID-19 will decrease effectiveness of existing vaccines
About 1,400 migrants have been living outdoors in bitterly cold temperatures for the past two weeks because of a political impasse
Some 800 Ethiopians have arrived in eastern Sudan in the first few days of the new year
Protection from freezing temperatures needed for hundreds of migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers
At least 84 more child offenders are understood to be on Iran’s death row
Antonio Guterres says healing from the impact of a deadly virus and starting to heal the planet must be our New Year’s resolution for 2021
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