Russia Ukraine War: Kyiv Hospital Struggles To Care For Patients Amid Air Strikes
Oksana, who is 26 weeks pregnant, described a harrowing scene in a Kyiv hospital in Ukraine during air raids, with staff scrambling to help patients...
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WHO Regional Chief Voices Grave Concern Over Middle East Escalation
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Recent developments in Gaza, the wider Middle East, and Sudan, have highlighted the complexities of emergencies in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) vast Eastern Mediterranean...
UN agency begins COVID vaccine rollout for 7,500 stranded migrants in Yemen
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has begun a COVID-19 vaccination campaign for migrants stranded in Yemen. The goal is to inoculate around 7,500 people at its Migrant...
Fundamental freedoms squeezed in Ukraine, Human Rights Council hears
The UN Human Rights Council heard on Wednesday that fundamental freedoms in Ukraine have been squeezed in Government-controlled areas, as well as across the contact...
COVID-19 leads to over 50 million more hungry people in Asia-Pacific
COVID-19 led to rising food insecurity for around 54 million people living in the vast Asia-Pacific region during 2020, according to a joint UN agency...
UN rights office urges Colombia to reform policing of protests
Colombia must urgently reform how it polices protests in the wake of demonstrations earlier this year in which several people were killed or injured, the...
Afghanistan: Humanitarian crisis threatens basic human rights
Respect for fundamental rights and freedoms by the de facto authorities in Afghanistan is critical to ensuring stability in the country, the UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human...
COVID cases surging in Africa at fastest rate this year, but deaths remain low
An 83 per cent surge in COVID-19 cases during the past week in Africa, driven by the Delta and Omicron variants, is causing fewer deaths...
38℃ record Arctic temperature confirmed, others likely to follow: WMO
A new and disturbing high temperature record for the Arctic of 38 degrees Celsius, or just over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, was confirmed by the World...
Remember the Rohingya ‘forced to run for their lives’
The world must not forget the roughly one million Rohingya from Myanmar “forced to run for their lives from the military’s genocidal attack against them”,...