2019

Saudi missiles and artillery shells targeted on Thursday different areas of Sa’ada governorate. Saudi missiles and artillery shells targeted populated villages in Razih district, damaging civilians’ houses and farms. Border districts in…

The first-ever Global Refugee Forum concluded in Geneva on Wednesday with more than 770 pledges of support, covering areas such as protection, employment, and education, for refugees and the communities which have taken them in.…

More women could soon have access to an affordable version of an expensive life-saving breast cancer treatment, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday. The UN health agency has prequalified the…

Two decades of increasing tobacco use around the world are set to go into reverse, UN health experts have predicted, after revealing data indicating that fewer men and boys are smoking than before. “For…

The world needs to transform the way it responds to refugee situations and do more for the struggling countries that shelter almost all of them, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday, at a high-level forum seeking…

An average of nine children have been killed or maimed every day in Afghanistan so far this year, according to a new report from the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, which describes the country as “the world’s most lethal warzone”.…

As “policies shaped more by fear than fact” have caused untold suffering to migrants, the UN Secretary-General is urging countries to realize the goals of a global agreement that promotes enhanced international cooperation on…

Despite UN efforts throughout this International Year of Indigenous Languages to highlight the daily disappearance of mother tongues across the world, the President of the General Assembly (PGA) warned on Tuesday that…

The Ministry of Marine Resource has warned of the danger of pollution the marine environment is exposed to under the US-Saudi war. The director general of the marine control of the Ministry, Mohamed Abbas Al-Faqih, said that "the ministry…

Minister of Human Rights, Alia Faisal Abdul-Latif, met Monday, a delegation from the Hamas movement headed by acting representative of Palestinian resistance movement Hamas Muath Abu Shamala. During the meeting, they discussed the…