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The Taliban has presided over widespread human rights abuses since taking over Afghanistan in August 2021, the United Nations said.  The human rights abuses include 160 killings of former government officials and members of the […]

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The latest UN report released on Wednesday paints an alarming picture in which one in 10 people – or between 702 million and 828 million people – around the world faced hunger in 2021. The […]

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Stressing that Syria has one of the most vulnerable populations anywhere in the world, the UN deputy regional humanitarian coordinator for the Syria crisis, Mark Cutts, noted that if the last aid corridor from Turkey […]

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The number of nuclear weapons is likely to increase in the next decade though there was a slight decline in stocks between January 2021 and January 2022, shows the forecast that the Stockholm International Peace […]

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The United Nations thanked the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for donating $10 million in order to rescue a decaying Safer oil tanker in Yemen.  The United Nations aims to defuse a potentially catastrophic environmental issue. […]

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A new UN report pointed out on Tuesday that the main causes of the persistent cycles of violence are Israel’s occupation and the discrimination against Palestinians, concluding that Israel clearly has no intention of ending […]

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After a fourth consecutive rainy season had failed Somalia, United Nations agencies warned in a joint statement on Tuesday that nearly a quarter of a million people are facing starvation in the Horn of Africa […]

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Anger with President Joe Biden and his Democratic Party over their apparent lack of direction on abortion rights is likely to drive months of planned rallies around the country, organizers say, Reuters reports. An extraordinary […]

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A Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) official said on Sunday that Palestinians have been angered by the announcement that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) might allow other UN agencies to help service Palestinian […]

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Around 62,7%, or 7.74 million people, will face a crisis or worsening levels of food insecurity between April and July, the United Nations Children’s Fund warned quoting the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification analysis. Although […]

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In a phone call to Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Thursday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has praised the Kingdom’s efforts to reach a political solution to the Yemen war that has been […]

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The United Nations has increasingly heard accounts of rape and sexual violence in Ukraine and has called for an investigation of violence against women in Ukraine.  The UN Women executive director Sima Bahous told the […]

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Women and children who live in some of the hardest-to-reach camps for internally displaced people face chronic and high levels of violence and depression. Some women are forced into “survival sex.”  A new report has […]

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After the United States announced on Monday it would seek Russia’s suspension from the UN Human Rights Council following the accusation of mass murdering civilians in Bucha, Ukraine, the United Nations General Assembly will vote […]

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Last month’s cross-border terrorist attacks by the Houthi militia against critical civilian infrastructure in Saudi Arabia were strongly condemned on Monday by the members of the UN Security Council, which also underscored the truce will […]

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Ukraine and Russia have to agree on the delivery of aid and on the safe evacuation of civilians from frontline areas, where vitals are running out, especially from the besieged Mariupol, the International Committee of […]

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