A record 59.1 million people were displaced within their homelands last year, or four million more than in 2020, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Thursday, citing the latest Global Report on Internal Displacement (...)
A court in military-ruled Myanmar has found former leader Aung Sun Suu Kyi guilty of corruption, the latest verdict in a series of secret trials.
Suu Kyi has been under house arrest since February 2021 when a military coup ousted her elected (...)
Oman has facilitated the release of 14 foreigners who were held in Yemen and transferred them from the Houthi-controlled Yemeni capital Sanaa to Muscat, Oman's foreign ministry said.
The people freed included a British man, his wife and child, seven (...)
LONDON — The British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss praised on Sunday the great efforts of Saudi Arabia and the Sultanate of Oman in securing the release of the British citizen who was detained by the Houthi militias since April 2017.
"I pay tribute to (...)
United States President Joe Biden will host a special in-person summit with ASEAN leaders on May 12-13, a White House statement said Saturday.
"The Special Summit will demonstrate the United States' enduring commitment to ASEAN, recognizing its (...)
Women's rights are human rights, and universal in times of war and peace, a senior UN official told the Security Council on Wednesday, urging ambassadors to ensure accountability for conflict-related sexual violence.
Pramila Patten, the (...)
Although more than 160 States have signed a landmark convention on banning landmines, more action is still needed to protect people from these "abhorrent weapons", UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said.
In his message for the International (...)
The UN chief has called for $100 million each year in assessed contributions from Member States, to fund the world body's peacebuilding activities, describing such an investment as "a bargain" compared with the punitive costs of (...)
"Robust and sustained international support" is again needed for Rohingya refugees and the Bangladeshi communities generously hosting them, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Tuesday.
"Humanitarian agencies are seeking more than $881 million to (...)
On March 26, 1971, Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declared Bangladesh's independence following the crackdown on unarmed Bangalees at midnight on March 25 by the Pakistani occupation forces. After the nine month long (...)
The Organization of Isalmic Cooperation (OIC) Secretary General Hissein Brahim Taha stressed that the Rohingya case is one of the top priorities on the OIC's agenda, one that the organization has been following for over two decades.
In comments to (...)
The UN's top rights official said on Monday that amidst a "profound crisis" facing access to basic human rights in Myanmar following the coup in February last year, hundreds of localized armed resistance groups have now formed across the country, (...)
The Biden administration has formally determined that Myanmar's military committed genocide and crimes against humanity against the Rohingya, a US official told CNN on Sunday.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will publicly announce the (...)
Security forces in Myanmar have killed at least 1,600 people and detained more than 12,500, since the military coup last year, the UN rights office said on Tuesday.
In a new report warning that serious rights abuses uncovered in Myanmar may amount (...)
To forge a sustainable future for us all, "women and girls must be front and center, leading the way", Secretary-General António Guterres told the opening session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) on Monday.
He described the climate and (...)
'Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow' is the theme for the UN's commemoration of International Women's Day on Tuesday, celebrating the work of women and girls in fighting climate change and ending the COVID-19 pandemic.
Senior UN (...)
"Slave" tattoos, electric shock devices, and plastic bracelets. These are examples of the kinds of objects and physical abuses deployed by human traffickers to control, torture, and brand their victims, and which are crucial to securing a (...)
Russia escalated its attacks on Ukraine, unleashing a campaign of violence in urban areas as its forces closed in on the main cities. The long military convoy outside Kyiv continues to advance slowly on the capital.
Ukraine's second city Kharkiv saw (...)
As the conflict in Ukraine deepens and the COVID-19 pandemic wears on, the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva is gearing up to hold its annual month-long session, which begins on Monday.
More than 130 foreign dignitaries are expected at the Palais (...)
Myanmar's military deployed ground troops and launched air and artillery strikes against rebel forces in the country's east, witnesses, local media and an aid group said on Thursday, prompting thousands of people to flee, Reuters (...)
Weapons exports to the military rulers in Myanmar by UN Member States must stop, the UN independent expert on the human rights situation in the country said on Tuesday.
In a report to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Special Rapporteur Tom (...)
The Humanitarian Department (ICHAD) of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) held a consultation meeting with EU Humanitarian Department DG ECHO, on 10 February, 2022, in Brussels.
The OIC Delegation was led by Assistant Secretary General (...)
The number of internally displaced people (IDPs) in Myanmar has doubled since February of last year, now crossing the 800,000 mark, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) announced on Friday.
Speaking to journalists in Geneva, UNHCR spokesperson Matthew (...)
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ranks sixth among the world's 50 most competitive emerging markets, according to the annual Agility Emerging Markets Logistics Index.
The Kingdom retained its No. 3 position in the area of business fundamentals and ranked (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief) participated, via video conference, Friday in the launch ceremony of the Regional Migrants Response Plan (MRP) by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) for the Horn of Africa and (...)
