Category: Reports
The United Nations reported today that Afghan hostilities in 2015 left more than 3,500 civilians dead, including an unprecedented number of children – one in four casualties over the past year was a child – ...
According to a new United Nations food security and nutrition assessment, the situation in Somalia is alarming and could get worse, especially in parts of Puntland and Somaliland, which have been hard hit by drought ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In the US Army, rape problem is recurring. Reports of sexual assault at the three US military academies increased by more than 50 percent last year, Pentagon officials have confirmed. The Pentagon’s review of sexual ...
Faced with a global shortage of oral cholera vaccines (OCV), the United Nations health agency announced today that supply should double this year to six million doses, with further increases later, after it approved a ...
One million migrants and refugees arrived in Europe in 2015, according to the latest data from the United Nations (UN) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM). In a joint statement on Tuesday, the UN ...
The government of the Central African Republic and United Nations peacekeepers should urgently address sexual violence against women and girls by armed militia in the capital, Bangui. Human Rights Watch documented some cases in which ...
Amnesty International has called on Jordan to allow some 12,000 Syrian refugees stranded along the country’s border with Syria, warning of a worsening humanitarian situation. The rights group urged Amman to “take immediate action” in ...
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