2020

Twenty-five years after the historic Beijing women’s conference in China – a milestone in advancing equal rights – violence against women and girls is not only common, but widely accepted, a new UN report revealed on…

A shortage of protective equipment is endangering health workers worldwide, warned the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday, citing “severe and mounting disruption to the global supply” caused by “rising demand, panic buying,…

After more than a year of battling an Ebola virus outbreak that killed more than 2,200 people, UN officials are “cautiously optimistic” that the epidemic in the northeast Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) will soon be…

UN agencies together with the Bangladesh authorities have appealed for $877 million to support hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, where conditions are still not conducive for their safe return, UN refugee…

Child sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and the use of children in prostitution “are a reality in all parts of the world”, the Human Rights Council heard on Tuesday. In a report to Member States at the…

The United Nations is “determined to stand by” civilians across Syria’s war-torn northwest, as “a grave humanitarian crisis” continues, the UN emergency relief chief said on Tuesday. Speaking from Hatay,…

Secretary-General of the Supreme Council for Management and Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Abdelmohsen Tawoos and representatives of seven international organizations signed on Tuesday on an agreement to organize the work of…

The Yemeni Ministry of Public Health and Population on Tuesday night said that it has not registered any suspected case or confirmed case of coronavirus in Yemen so far. Dr. Abdulhakim al-Kohlani, a spokesman for the joint technical…

A displaced girl was brutally raped by armed men belonging to the UAE-backed “Southern Transitional Council” STC in Abyan province, southern Yemen, local sources said. According to the local sources in the province, the girl, who fled…

Yemeni Health Minister Taha Al-Mutawakkil slammed UAE’s plots to infect Yemenis with the novel coronavirus, Covid-19. In a local event, he said that UAE is planning to send a number of Covid-19 suspected patients to Yemen’s Mocha and…