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Sikaiana, less than two square kilometres, is encircled by the sea and is home to just 300 people.  It is also more than 200...

“Today, traumatised civilians are still trapped inside El Fasher and are being prevented from leaving,” said UN human rights chief Volker Türk in a statement released on Friday. “I...

The latest push came on Friday in remarks to the Energy Transition Roundtable in Belém, Brazil, held just days before the formal opening of the COP30...

During their mission from 2 to 6 November, the three members of the Human Rights Council-mandated Commission of Inquiry met...

“Eleven months after the fall of the former government in Syria, we continue to receive worrying reports about dozens of abductions...

UN aid agencies are struggling to access provinces overrun by Rwanda-backed M23 rebel fighters at the start of the year,...

Soon after the fall of Bashar al-Assad in early December 2024, the international community began to ease sanctions against the...

Filippo Grandi reported that for the first time in nearly a decade, the number of refugees and other people fleeing war, violence and persecution, has decreased – from...

Kishan Khoday, Resident Representative for the UN Development Programme (UNDP), told journalists at UN Headquarters in New York via video...

“We see massive violations of international human rights law, direct attacks on civilians, noncompliance with international humanitarian law, which regulates...