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The UN human rights office, OHCHR, on Friday raised alarm over the situation in northern Burkina Faso, where several hundred civilians, including children, were...

The ongoing escalation of the conflict in Myanmar, more than three years after the military takeover, is severely affecting people across the country, with...

UN officials launched assessment visits to Gaza and its agencies will resume night-time aid deliveries on Thursday after a 48-hour pause following Israeli forces...

Some of Haiti’s gangs have bigger arsenals than the police as criminal groups are becoming “stronger, richer and more autonomous” by using arms trafficking...

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Wednesday expressed dismay over the decision by Uganda’s Constitutional Court to uphold the country’s discriminatory Anti-Homosexuality...

UN humanitarians in Gaza have suspended operations at night for at least 48 hours in response to the killing of seven aid workers from...

As hostilities continue in Gaza, the UN agency that assists Palestine refugees, UNRWA, urged donors not to forget about Palestinians affected by the ongoing...

The scale of the bombs dropped on Gaza since 7 October means that it will take millions of dollars, and many years, to decontaminate...

A senior UN official on Tuesday urged the Security Council to work to avert further escalation in the Middle East following the deadly airstrike...

The killing of seven humanitarians by an Israeli strike in Gaza on Tuesday – 196 overall since hostilities began last October – is “an...