Sudan is a flashpoint, with a growing risk of atrocity crimes and mass starvation deaths, the UN rights chief warned on Thursday, noting that some of the abuses described in his report could amount ...

Eritrea continues to subject its citizens to indefinite military service, in violation of international human rights standards and calls by the Human Rights Council and other human rights mechanisms, ...

As Muslims around the world prepare to mark the beginning of the Holy Month of Ramadan, UN Secretary-General António Guterres issued a call on Thursday for compassion, empathy and generosity, urging p ...

UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Thursday called for an end to the “abhorrent, dehumanizing narratives” that continue to hamper a positive outcome to the Middle East crisis ...

Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) are carrying out further investigations to determine the cause of another cluster ...

Wisam sits in her classroom, absorbed in her work, her fingers gripping a blue-coloured pencil, carefully sketching a flower in her notebook, one of more than 100,000 displaced students in war-torn Su ...

UNICEF, the Government of Japan, and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) announced a new partnership of over US$3 million to provide mental health and psychosocial wellbeing services for ...

A delegation from the Libyan Ministry of Social Affairs has begun an official visit to Chad to strengthen cooperation in the social and humanitarian fields ...

The humanitarian situation in Somalia is worsening as drought, conflict and soaring food prices push millions toward extreme hunger, UN agencies warned on Wednesday ...

The number of reports of grave violations against children in parts of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has tripled since the last escalation of violence that began in late January 2025, the ...

Shuttered clinics and health workers laid off around the world reflect the widespread, negative toll the United States funding freeze is taking on the global AIDS response, according to a new situatio ...

As hostilities, insecurity and attacks on health facilities in Sudan continue to increase the risk of outbreaks across the country, cholera cases are on the rise in White Nile State, United Nations ag ...