One-third of Yemen’s population needs humanitarian aid and protection, according to a UN report, which pointed out that shelter, food, water, health services are urgently needed.
The passengers were all carrying official documents from the UN refugee agency when the boat was attacked on its way to Sudan
A new UN report has found that two billion people around the world do not have access to clean drinking water. However, the report covers just a small part of the global population and fails to address the impact that war and corporate profiteering have had on drinking water access.
NEW YORK -- According to a new report issued by the UN World Health Organization, approximately two billion people around the world lack access to safe, clean drinking water. The report, titled “Progress on Drinking Water,
UN demands access to report on Yemen’s ‘man-made catastrophe’ after BBC journalists are blocked from traveling to Sanaa.
The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen prevented a UN flight carrying aid agency staff traveling to the Houthi-controlled capital, Sanaa, because three international journalists were also on board, aviation sources said. The coalition, which intervened in
The civilian toll was particularly grave for women and children, with casualties among women up 23% and 9% among children.
The civilian death toll in Afghanistan, some 16 years into the US-led invasion and occupation, continues to rise precipitously, with the most recent figures out of the United Nations showing 1,662 civilians killed in the first half of 2017, the
History was just made, but nuclear-armed states stand on the wrong side of it.
The United States has joined a small group of global outliers on Friday after a historic United Nations treaty to ban nuclear weapons was adopted by a majority of the world's nations. "The adoption of the nuclear weapons ban treaty marks a historic turning point in the centuries-old battle to eliminate all weapons of mass destruction," said Jeff
The pressure is coming from “more than one and probably less than 20, but it’s still from quite a lot of different sectors and interested parties.”
The head of the team charged with determining responsibility for chemical weapons attacks in Syria appealed to governments on Thursday to stop exerting political pressure on investigators who will report in mid-October on two incidents, including an April 4 attack that killed
