UN Rights Body Holds Urgent Session on Violence in Eastern Congo as Rwanda-Backed Rebels Advance
The U.N.’s top human rights body is holding an urgent session on spiralling violence in eastern Congo, where Rwanda-backed ...
UN chief sounds the alarm amid fears over possible DOGE-inspired cuts after Trump's order
UN Secretary-General António Guterres sends a letter to UN staff as President Donald Trump makes sweeping changes to US ...
More than 150 female inmates raped and burned to death during Goma jailbreak in DRC, UN says
More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire ...
UN food agency WFP received dozens of US stop work orders despite emergency waiver
Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions ...
Future looks dire for UN Palestinian refugee agency, says UNRWA chief
The head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees said Thursday that while an Israeli ban has not yet forced the agency to ...
Nearly 3,000 people killed after rebels seize key city in DR Congo, UN says
Nearly three thousand people have been killed in the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to ...
UN nuclear chief says number of attacks on Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has increased, TASS reports
Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said on Friday that the number of attacks on the ...
Sexual violence against children in Haiti rises by 1,000%, UN says
Sexual violence against children has increased 1,000% since 2023, turning their bodies "into battlegrounds", spokesman James ...
US has frozen some funding for the UN-backed mission to quell gangs in Haiti, UN says
The United Nations says that the U.S. has given notice that it is halting funding to a U.N.-backed mission in Haiti tasked ...
UN agencies raise alarm over Pakistan's move to deport thousands of Afghans waiting to go to the US
Two U.N. refugees and migration agencies have expressed their concern over Pakistan’s recent decision to forcibly deport ...
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UN raises concerns over alarming cases of sexual violence in the DRC
UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Friday (07 Feb) expressed profound concerns at the ongoing violent escalation in eastern ...
New contingent of Kenyan police joins UN-backed mission to fight gangs in Haiti
A fourth contingent of Kenyan police have arrived in Haiti to help repel violent gangs as officials brushed off concerns of a ...