Wednesday’s Daily Brief: Libya ‘war crime’ attack, Sudan, Myanmar rights violations continue, ‘xenophobia’ in Assam, South Sudan update
In the news this Wednesday: “Outraged” Guterres demands independent inquiry into fatal Libya migrant centre…
In the news this Wednesday: “Outraged” Guterres demands independent inquiry into fatal Libya migrant centre…
Marginalized communities in Myanmar still face “grievous human rights violations” at the hands of security…
After nationwide protests across Sudan on Sunday, UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet on Wednesday…
A missile attack on a detention centre in Tripoli that killed scores of migrants and…
DRC: UN food agency triples aid in strife-hit Ituri province Zika transmission low, but travellers…
The United Nations’ cultural agency announced on Tuesday that it was removing the place that…
This Tuesday, UN News covers: Growing food crisis in DR Congo; Swine Fever threatens millions…
The UN human rights chief has expressed her deep concern over the alleged torture and…
The rapid spread of African Swine Fever (ASF) across East and Southeast Asia is threatening…
Heat stress spike predicted to cost global economy $2,400 billion a year 1.4 million refugees…
The top UN official charged with representing the interests of children caught up in armed…
Two thousand four hundred billion dollars: that’s the expected cost of heat stress to the…
Amid reports of massacres in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Ebola-hit Ituri province, World…
Ebola fight ongoing amid evidence of ‘several massacres’ in DRC’s Ituri province Earth is set…
Vaccines save millions of lives, and yet misinformation, limited availability and inadequate access to services…
This Friday, we cover: UN chief appeals for stronger climate action commitment; report on migrant…
The vital work of tracing people infected with deadly Ebola virus disease in north-east Democratic…
After Rio Grande drownings, UNICEF chief highlights ‘dire’ detention centres on US-Mexico border UN panel…
This Thursday, we cover: the dire humanitarian situation in Syria’s Idlib; living conditions at the…
The discussion with villagers starts early in the morning. Volunteers are invited to draw a…
Following last week’s public threats by Taliban militants to deliberately target media outlets in Afghanistan, the United Nations mission chief in…
The shocking image of a drowned Central American migrant and his infant daughter on the…
Tragic image of drowned father and child in Rio Grande spurs migration debate UN should…
Peace between government and opposition forces in South Sudan “hangs in the balance,” but there is…
Every month, the UN rescues around 1,200 people from the vast Sahara Desert, near Niger,…
Top news, this Thursday are: the migration debate spurred by the tragic image of a…
While the prohibition of torture is “absolute, under all circumstances”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres bemoaned the…
The “multi-headed monster” of intolerance, has created a visible and violent “tsunami of hatred” that…
Opioids, which include both heroin and legal pain relievers, were responsible for around two-thirds of…
This Tuesday, we cover: a key fundraising conference for the UN Palestine refugee agency (UNRWA);…
The world is changing rapidly and so are families according to the United Nations gender-focused…
‘Immediate’ moratorium call, on use of surveillance technology 20,000 migrants rescued in Sahara since 2016…
The work of the UN body responsible for assisting Palestine refugees, UNRWA, which has allowed…
The peace dividend from last year’s ceasefire in South Sudan is palpable, but political elites…
Surveillance technology should be banned immediately until “effective” national or international controls are put in…
While women’s rights have advanced over the decades, gender inequalities and other fundamental human rights…
Millions of children around the world are being denied a “safe place to learn”, due…
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Monday’s top stories include: human rights issues in Syria, Iraq and the Occupied Palestinian Territory;…
The looting and destruction of UN food relief agency premises and property in Sudan, has…
With “no media access” in parts of the country and “serious restrictions” on humanitarian organizations,…
Thousands of suspected foreign ISIL terrorist fighters and their families who are being held in…
With hundreds killed and more than 30,000 injured so far during the Gaza-Israel border protests, known as “The Great March…
On International Widow’s Day, marked on Sunday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres is asking everyone to…
Speaking at the end of the first-ever official mission to Venezuela by a UN human…
About 3,340 women, children and men have been given support to restart their lives after…
UN food agency begins partial pull-out of aid to opposition-held Yemen capital Central African Republic…
Accountability for the murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi will be difficult to prove,…
Epilepsy affects some 50 million people around the world and eight in 10 of these…
Cracking down on Catholic Church activities, arbitrary arrest and imprisonment of Orthodox and Christian congregation…