As famine looms, malnutrition and disease rise sharply among Somali children
A medical practitioner uses a Mid Upper-Arm Circumference (MUAC) measuring tape on a child indicating Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) at...
Genocide Watch
Mar 30, 2017
Mosul: UN rights chief urges civilian protection as sniper fire, airstrikes kill dozens
A family climbs out of their destroyed home to flee minutes after an ISIS suicide car bomber detonated his vehicle on the street outside...
Genocide Watch
Mar 28, 2017
Congo disappearances raise alarm as political tensions grow
By Carley Petesch Nearly a week after Congo's government announced the kidnapping of two United Nations experts along with their...
ABC 1
Mar 28, 2017
Security Council and region must ‘speak with one voice,’ end suffering in South Sudan – UN chief
Women wait with their children to be examined and possibly give supplementary food at a mobile clinic run by UNICEF in the village of...
Genocide Watch
Mar 27, 2017
Near East and North Africa: Conflicts threaten to erode gains in region’s zero-hunger battle
An Egyptian farmer feeding cows fresh fodder. Photo: FAO/Giulio Napolitano Food security and nutrition levels have sharply deteriorated...
Genocide Watch
Mar 27, 2017
Children suffer grave violations in Sudan’s conflict – UN reports
Children attend a math class in grade 3 in Yasin Bay Primary School in the city of El Fasher in North Darfur, Sudan. Photo:...
Genocide Watch
Mar 27, 2017
With Somalia in the Throes of Famine, UN Warns of Worsening Crisis
With famine already ravaging Somalia, the U.N. warns South Sudan, Nigeria, and Yemen are also in danger. 1.Internally displaced men and...
!Aa NBC News 1
Mar 27, 2017
UN urges political dialogue between warring parties to avoid famine in Yemen
The United Nations (UN) under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Stephen O’Brien has called upon the warring parties in Yemen to...
The Express Tribune
Mar 27, 2017
UN appalled at killing of aid workers in South Sudan
An armed individual in the town of Pibor, in Jonglei state. Pibor has seen violent clashes and confrontations that have resulted in...
Genocide Watch
Mar 26, 2017
Myanmar: U.N. Orders Vital Inquiry into Severe Rights Violations
Accountability Needed for Gross Violations in Rakhine, Kachin, and Shan States After weeks of negotiations, the United Nations Human...
Fortify Rights International
Mar 25, 2017
U.N. Peacekeeping Faces Overhaul as U.S. Threatens to Cut Funding
United Nations peacekeepers patrolling areas around Bentiu, in South Sudan, last month. More than 200,000 civilians are sheltering on...
New York Times 1
Mar 24, 2017
The U.N. Has Agreed to Investigate Myanmar's Alleged Abuse of Rohingya
Asia is 8 months pregnant as she stands for a photo with her son in the Balu Kali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on Jan. 17,...
TIME (Time Magazine)
Mar 24, 2017
