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Category: International
Fast-moving Afghanistan crisis ‘has hallmarks of humani...
Afghanistan is on course to witness its highest ever number of documented civilian casualties in a single year since records began...
DR Congo: ‘Widespread and systematic’ violence linked t...
Rival armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are carrying out horrific sexual attacks against women and girls,...
Childhood cancer care in Africa hit hard by COVID-19 pa...
Nearly 30,000 children in sub-Saharan Africa are believed to have died from cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the ...
End ‘rampant’ police brutality, promote tolerance: UN h...
Expressing alarm over “rampant police brutality against peaceful protesters worldwide”, more than 40 UN-appointed human rights exp...
WHO announces three new drugs for latest COVID-19 ‘Soli...
Three new candidate drugs are being tested in the latest phase of global Solidarity clinical trials to find effective treatments a...
Global climate objectives fall short without nuclear po...
The urgent need to reduce emissions and slow global heating, should involve the roll-out of more nuclear power stations, regional ...
Punishment of ‘innocent civilians’ through government s...
Unilateral coercive measures by some governments are denying many people around the world the right to personal development, as we...
WHO supports Guinea after detection of first-ever case ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) is supporting Guinea following a confirmed death from Marburg virus disease, the first known c...
Rohingya refugees receive first COVID vaccinations in B...
More than 4,000 Rohingyas living in Cox’s Bazar refugee camps in Bangladesh have received their first COVID-19 vaccine shots, as p...
Arrests of Palestinian rights defenders part of ‘wider ...
Israel must safeguard human rights activists in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and within its borders, a UN-appointed expert s...
UNHCR alarmed over US ‘expulsion flights’ to southern M...
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) raised concern on Wednesday over a new policy by the United States, using public health orders linke...
First Person: From a life of violence to a culture of p...
A young peace campaigner from Cameroon who turned his back on the violence prevalent in his hometown and became a youth civil soci...