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Nearly three years into Sudan's war, violence is intensifying, famine conditions are looming in parts of the country, and civilians remain trapped between shifting front lines, senior UN political and humanitarian officials told the Security Council ...

Increased Israeli attacks and the forced transfer of Palestinians have sparked concern over ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said in a report issued on Thursday.

The UN Security Council meets this morning to discuss Sudan as the war nears its third year and fighting intensifying across multiple regions and civilians facing deepening humanitarian catastrophe. Senior UN political and humanitarian officials are ...

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) carried out ethnically targeted killings, widespread sexual violence and enforced disappearances during their late-October takeover of El Fasher in Sudan's Darfur region -- acts that a UN fact-finding mission said show ...

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has warned that without urgent guardrails, AI risks deepening inequality, amplifying bias and fuelling real-world harm.

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) is scaling up its emergency response in South Sudan's Jonglei state, where escalating conflict has displaced hundreds of thousands of people and pushed hunger to critical levels.

The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) has called for the immediate release of all children detained during the recent public unrest in Iran, expressing deep concern that minors arrested in connection with the protests remain behind bars.

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast, February 19 (IPS) - It is an indictment on the global food system that, despite having some of the richest and most endowed natural resources in the world and a burgeoning youth population, West Africa spends more than $2 ...

WASHINGTON DC, February 18 (IPS) - When Brazil's unemployment rate dropped to 5.2 percent in November 2025--the lowest in a quarter century--it punctuated an impressive turnaround from the pandemic. Yet, while men's participation in the labor market ...

KARACHI, Pakistan, February 18 (IPS) - Fozia Shashani, 26, a member of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee, said it was "most painful" to hear reports that two Baloch women - Hawa Baloch, 20, and Asifa Mengal, 24 - had taken part in active combat as ...