Civil and political freedoms continue to be violated in Eritrea, despite the promises of the peace agreement signed last July with Ethiopia. Incarceration incommunicado, enforced disappearance, encasement of youth, nothing has changed in this closed ...
Global warming is expected to result in increased heat stress at work, affecting productivity and causing economic and job losses. According to the ILO, rising heat stress should even lead to productivity losses equivalent to ...
At least 65 people were wounded in a Taliban-claimed complex bombing aimed at a logistics center at the Ministry of Defense. Six civilians and nine pro-regime fighters died during Israeli strikes on Sunday in Syria, ...
Some 115 million boys and men around the world were married during their childhood, according to UNICEF in its first-ever in-depth analysis of married boys published this month. Among them, one in five boys would ...
Tens of thousands of protesters paralyzed Hong Kong on Wednesday, delaying consideration of a controversial bill to allow extradition to China. The protesters, mostly young people and students, surrounded the government buildings in the center ...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) after an assessment visit to Venezuela announced on Friday that about 3.2 million children need help in this country. « According to UN preliminary estimates, one in three children needs ...
NGOs interested in applying for ECOSOC consultative status should submit their application and required documents on or before the deadline 1 June 2019. The following link provides background information, the benefits and instructions how to ...
A progressing investigation and more and more victims, In Sri Lanka, the record of attacks on Sunday in this island of South Asia was further aggravated on Tuesday. At the same time, the authorities made ...
UNICEF, Save the Children, and their partners announced that around 6,000 children are now reunited with their parents in South Sudan after years of separation due to the conflict. The nearly five-year-old conflict in South ...
On Friday, March 15, shortly before 2:00 pm local time, a white supremacist terrorist opened fire on hundreds of worshipers at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, and slaughtered 49 innocent people. During the attack, ...