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‘Repeated bouts of violence’ put Syria rebuilding at risk: Independent rights investigator
Incidents of mass killings and torture in post-Assad Syria are tempering early optimism about the transitiona…
Incidents of mass killings and torture in post-Assad Syria are tempering early optimism about the transitiona…
The UN Secretary-General has strongly condemned the killing of civilians, including children, in Israeli airs…
The chair of an independent commission investigating alleged human rights abuses in the Occupied Palestinian …
More than 470,000 movements by civilians heading north inside the Gaza Strip have been recorded since the cea…
The UN and its partners are accelerating deliveries of life-saving aid across Gaza, but relief efforts remain…
Gaza’s health system remains in ruins despite the fragile ceasefire holding, with hundreds of thousands still…
The Gaza ceasefire provides a rare opportunity to end one of the most destructive phases of the wider Israel-…
As Syria’s humanitarian needs soar and aid funding dries up, UN officials urged the Security Council on Wedne…
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) says that Israel must uphold its responsibilities as the “occupying …
The UN human rights office (OHCHR) in the Occupied Palestinian Territory has warned of an alarming rise in vi…
In Gaza, the ceasefire is enabling UN humanitarians to reach more desperate people with life-saving food – bu…
The UN on Monday said it was encouraged by renewed Gaza ceasefire commitments, warning that recent violence r…
Nearly 70,000 women in Afghanistan tune in to Radio Femme – an all-female-run online and traditionally broadc…
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has warned food aid cannot reach everyone in Gaza unless all border crossin…
As a fragile ceasefire holds in the Gaza Strip, UN aid teams are intensifying efforts to deliver urgently nee…
Bangladesh has begun legal proceedings against security officials accused of sanctioning enforced disappearan…
The UN relief chief on Wednesday urged Israel and Hamas to honour their agreement to return deceased hostages…
Israel announced late on Tuesday that it will limit the flow of aid to Gaza, accusing Hamas of breaching the …
Around $70 billion will be needed to reconstruct Gaza and make it safe after two years of war, UN development…
The UN is stepping up its emergency response in Gaza, releasing $11 million from its Central Emergency Respon…
Ramallah, in the Occupied Palestinian Territory of the West Bank, is a bustling urban centre, but it is ringe…
As the UN Secretary-General on Monday welcomed the release of Monday of all living hostages from Gaza, aid ag…
As displaced Gazans jammed the main route leading north on Friday after the ceasefire deal between Israel and…
As people celebrated across Gaza and Israel at the news of an agreement that could hasten the end of the two-…
As Gazans and Israelis celebrated the news that a potential ceasefire deal had been reached between the Hamas…
The UN Secretary-General has welcomed the announcement from US President Donald Trump that Israel and Hamas h…
As indirect talks in Egypt seeking to end Gaza’s two-year war continue, the UN World Health Organization (WHO…
Tens of thousands of people went missing in Syria over the past 50 years under the Assad dictatorship, includ…
Two years after his son was taken hostage during the Hamas-led terror attacks, Yehuda Cohen continues to figh…
Houthi rebels have detained nine more UN personnel in Yemen, bringing the total number to 53 since 2021. f…
As the Gaza-Israel war enters its third year, sparked by Hamas-led terror attacks on Israel, the UN is appeal…
The UN Secretary-General António Guterres marked two years since the Hamas-led terror attacks on southern Isr…
UN aid teams in Gaza are “ready to go” with thousands of tonnes of supplies on standby to alleviate famine, w…
The head of the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, on Monday took aim at the “deliberate abandonment” of the laws of w…
The leadership of Hamas said late on Friday it was willing to release Israeli hostages in response to the Uni…
UN aid teams on Friday highlighted the disturbing situation in Gaza’s makeshift hospitals, where premature ba…
Nearly 42,000 people in Gaza are living with life-changing injuries from the ongoing conflict – including mor…
When the gates of Syria’s notorious Sednaya prison opened soon after the fall of the Assad regime last Decemb…
As Israeli forces continued their push to take full control of Gaza City on Wednesday, reports emerged that a…