More than half a million people have now been uprooted by escalating violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

Venezuela’s Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) has been implicated in a decade-long pattern of killings, arbitrary detentions, ...

A World Health Organization (WHO) expert committee has again confirmed that there is no causal link between vaccines and ...

As 2025 draws to a close, geopolitical divides are deepening – North and South, East and West. Against this backdrop, the UN ...

More than a month after Hurricane Melissa slammed the Caribbean, devastated communities still require assistance, the ...

Pregnant women took shelter in a bunkerised maternity unit in the Ukrainian city of Kherson last week, after a hospital was ...

Gaza’s health system for mothers and newborns has been “decimated”, the UN said on Thursday, with Israeli attacks destroying almost all hospitals, cutting off medical supplies and driving sharp rises ...

Afghanistan’s worsening humanitarian crisis is being driven by the accelerating erosion of fundamental rights – especially ...

Intensifying fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has claimed more than 70 civilian lives, displaced ...

In Gaza, as airstrikes, shelling and gunfire continued to kill and maim Palestinians, UN human rights chief Volker Türk on ...

Mothers who’ve been left starving in Gaza are now giving birth to underweight or premature babies who die in intensive care ...

As other governments contemplate similar moves, the UN Children’s Fund ( UNICEF) cautions that age-related restrictions alone ...