By AFPThe number of refugees and forcibly displaced people in west and central Africa has doubled since 2019, reaching nearly 14 million, the United Nations refugee agency said on Thursday.The figure has climbed from 6.5 million refugees and internal...

By UN NewsThe UN envoy supporting peace efforts between Israelis and Palestinians voiced grave concern over the growing risk of widescale regional escalation during a briefing to the Security Council in New York on Wednesday.“The series of explosions...

By UN NewsRepeated Russian attacks on energy infrastructure and power cuts in Ukraine will likely uproot an additional 500,000 people ahead of the coming winter, UN human rights monitors said on Thursday.The alert from the UN Human Rights Monitoring...

By UN News/Vibhu MishraA sharp escalation in fighting in Sudan’s El Fasher, along with ongoing clashes between rival military factions across the country, is heightening the risk of atrocities, including violence against women, and worsening the alre...

By AFP/Aya IskandaraniThe leader of Hezbollah acknowledged on Thursday that his group had suffered an "unprecedented" blow when thousands of operatives' communication devices exploded across Lebanon in deadly attacks it blamed on Israel.In his first...

By AFPA former CIA officer was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Wednesday for drugging and sexually abusing more than two dozen women in several countries.Brian Jeffrey Raymond, 48, of La Mesa, California, pleaded guilty in November 2023 to one cou...

By AFP/Michael MathesTwo assassination attempts against Donald Trump, bomb threats impacting a town's immigrant community, and a fringe party urging Kamala Harris's murder. The United States' coarsening political discourse has led to mounting menace...

By UN NewsCountries must use a once-in-a-generation UN summit to address current and emerging global challenges and reform outdated international institutions, Secretary-General António Guterres said on Wednesday in New York.Mr. Guterres was speaking...

By UN NewsConcerns for women and the overall state of humanitarian rights in Afghanistan are growing following further legal clampdowns by the Taliban, the UN Security Council heard on Wednesday.The Special Representative of the Secretary-General in...

By AFP/Nina LarsonUnited Nations rights experts warned Monday that Israel risked becoming an international "pariah" over its "genocide" in Gaza, suggesting that the country's UN membership should be called into question.Several independent UN experts...

By AFPIranian President Masoud Pezeshkian vowed Monday to ensure the morality police would no longer "bother" women, in remarks to the media on the second anniversary of Mahsa Amini's death in custody.Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd, died in police...

By AFP/Nioucha ZakavatiVoter turnout is diminishing around the world and the results of elections are increasingly questioned, a report on the state of democracy said Tuesday.Between 2008 and 2023, global voter turnout fell by 10 percentage points, f...