Driven for days to flee the war in Aleppo, thousands of Syrians, mostly women and children, are waiting in the cold to go to Turkey that for the moment keeps its border closed. The governor ...
The most senior United Nations officials are urging the world to eliminate female genital mutilation (FGM) by 2030, calling it a “violent practice” that scars girls for life, endangering their health, depriving them of their ...
A UN panel examining the case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has ruled that he should be allowed to walk free and compensated for his “deprivation of liberty.” The five independent rights experts, who make ...
Israeli forces have shot and killed three Palestinians in Jerusalem over an alleged attack on police officers, in the latest act of violence against Palestinian people. The shooting took place on Wednesday at the Damascus ...
According to the report, US laws and practices violate internationally recognized human rights in incarceration, racial disparities, criminal justice, police killing of African Americans and foreign policy to name a few. “The United States locks ...
Dozens of masked men, allegedly linked to the mid hooligans and neo-Nazi nebula, converged Friday evening to the center of Stockholm to attack migrants, said Saturday the Swedish police. No complaints of potential victims had ...
Sixteen other people died of hunger in the Syrian city of Madaya (west), since humanitarian convoys are entered mid-January, according to Doctors without Borders (MSF). Cases of malnutrition are estimated at 320, including 33 patients ...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday launched an appeal for 2.8 billion dollars in 2016 to help 43 million children caught in humanitarian crises around the world. For the first time, most of ...
The Secretary General of the UN Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday denounced settlement activity in the territories occupied by Israel, speaking of « provocations » that cast doubt on the willingness of Israelis to reach a two-state solution. ...
A rebel Taliban infiltrated in the police of the volatile Uruzgan province in southern Afghanistan has killed ten of his colleagues Tuesday in the second such attack in eight days, according to local authorities. The ...