Yangoon: An appeal to help Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh is “well short of needs,” the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Tuesday, as refugees called on donors not to forget the crisis ahead of the fifth anniversary of their exodus from Myanmar. More than a
Ankara: Around 274 million people across the world will need humanitarian aid and protection this year, the UN said, on the eve of World Humanitarian Day. In a report titled Global Humanitarian Overview 2022, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said: "In
United Nations: The United Nations implored the world to not forget the plight of Afghanistan s women and children despite other international crises, one year after the Taliban s return to power. The war-ravaged nation is suffering profound hardship including a staggering 95 percent of its
Geneva: U.N. humanitarian projects face a record funding gap this year, with only a third of the required $48.7 billion secured so far as global needs outpace pledges, a spokesman for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said. The money is
Seoul: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday expressed his “clear commitment” to North Korea’s denuclearization during his visit to Seoul, weeks after Pyongyang said it was “ready to mobilize” its nuclear deterrent. Guterres arrived in Seoul on Thursday following a trip to Japan, where he
Kyiv: Russia and Ukraine accused each other of new shelling near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant ahead of a UN Security Council meeting to address concerns over the facility’s security. Both Moscow and Kyiv said there were five rocket strikes near a radioactive material storage area
London: The Italian Agency for Development Cooperation and the UN Program for Human Settlements have signed an agreement in Beirut to finance the rehabilitation of the public park of the Mar Mikhael train station in the Lebanese capital. The program will also restore some of the
Hiroshima: "Humanity is playing with a loaded gun" as crises with the potential for nuclear disaster proliferate worldwide, UN head Antonio Guterres said in Hiroshima on Saturday, the 77th anniversary of the first atomic bomb attack. At an annual memorial, Guterres warned of the risk posed
United Nations: UN experts said in a new report that Malian armed forces allegedly carried out an operation with “white-skinned soldiers” near the border with Mauritania in March, shooting and burning at least 33 civilians in one of several operations where the country’s ruling military
Geneva: UN experts slammed Israel’s "harassment" of human rights defenders and humanitarian workers in the occupied West Bank’s Masafer Yatta villages, where Israel has a military zone. The special rapporteurs insisted such harassment must stop, and said residents continue to be threatened by the risk of