2020

Urgent resources are needed to support countries in southern Africa and the Great Lakes region which are hosting more than 900,000 refugees and asylum seekers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN refugee agency,…

As the COVID-19 coronavirus continues to spread globally, the UN’s top human rights official appealed on Friday to put rights “front and centre” when implementing preventative measures.  Liz Throssell,…

In his daily briefing to the press on Friday, World Health Organization (WHO) chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, warned that supplies of medicine are at risk of disruption due to the epidemic, given that China - the worst hit nation…

The UN human rights office is calling on authorities in Yemen to revoke death sentences imposed against 35 parliamentarians allegedly for treason charges.  The pro-government MPs were sentenced in…

The benefits of gender equality are not just for women and girls, but “for everyone whose lives will be changed by a fairer world”, the chief of UN Women said in her message for International Women’s Day (IWD) at UN…

The Eritrean authorities have released 38 Yemeni fishermen, after they were kidnapped by the battleships of the coalition forces from the Yemeni waters.   Al-nakhothah Zuhair confirmed that Emirati battleships hijacked four Yemeni…

An official source in the port of Hodeidah said Friday evening that US-Saudi naval forces continue to detain 13 ships loaded with grains and fuel. The source indicated to Almasirah Net that the 13 ships are loaded with 318,371…

A source in the  Operations Room, responsible for watching the situation, announced Friday evening that the forces of aggression committed 132 violations of the Stockholm Agreement in Hodeidah during the past 24 hours. The source told…

An influential member of Iran’s parliament has repeated the accusation that the coronavirus epidemic in China and Iran is “bio-terror attack”, one day after the commander of Revolutionary Guard made the same statement. …

 The US-backed Saudi-led aggression coalition’s mercenaries committed on Wednesday 174 military violations against citizens and their properties in separate areas of Hodeidah province over the past 24 hours, a source in the Correlation and…