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New evacuation orders in Gaza issued by the Israeli military have uprooted tens of thousands of Palestinians, amid ongoing bombardment, aid agencies have warned.

Nearly 900 desperate and hungry Gazans have been killed in recent weeks trying to fetch food, with most deaths linked to private aid hubs run by the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Tuesday.

First, it was floods that inundated fields and washed away crops. Then, it was drought which led the levels of lakes to plummet and the crops to shrivel.

A chaotic wave of returnees from Iran and Pakistan is straining Afghanistan's already fragile capacity under Taliban rule and threatening broader regional stability, said the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, on Friday.

Between October 2024 and June this year, Haiti has been caught in a vicious and unending cycle. First, gang violence expanded westward into the Artibonite and Centre Departments.

Escalating conflict and targeted violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state have forced some 150,000 Rohingya refugees to flee to Bangladesh over the past 18 months - the largest exodus to the neighbouring country in years.

The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) on Thursday raised alarm over Greece's decision to suspend the submission of asylum applications from people arriving by sea from North Africa, warning it risks breaching international law and undermining the country's . ...

Top UN human rights officials have voiced serious concern over the imposition of sanctions by the United States targeting Francesca Albanese, a UN-appointed independent expert on the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

The UN human rights office, OHCHR, has expressed deep concern over the killing of at least ten protesters in Kenya on Monday, amid reports that police and security forces used lethal force to quell violent demonstrations in Nairobi and across the ...

Anaemia remains one of South Asia's quietest but most pervasive health crises, disproportionately affecting the region's poorest women and girls - and with 18 million more cases projected by 2030, experts say urgent, unified action is critical.