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(VoA) – Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has invited the United Nations to help negotiations to exchange the kidnapped schoolgirls from Chibok for detained leaders of Boko Haram, [...]

(BBC News)  – After two years of war in Yemen and a Saudi-led blockade lasting 18 months millions of people are slowly starving – some are already dying for lack of food. One doctor [...]

(OSRSG-CAAC) – The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Leila Zerrougui, welcomes the release of 21 children detained by Sudanese authorities for [...]

(Project Syndicate)  – Twenty years ago this month, the United Nations General Assembly received a report by former Mozambican Education Minister Graça Machel detailing the effects of armed [...]

(The Hill) – Human rights groups applauded Wednesday’s vote in the Senate on blocking an arms sale to Saudi Arabia, saying it made an important statement even though the resolution was [...]

(Middle East Eye) – Four medics were killed and a nurse critically wounded when an air strike hit a clinic in a village near Syria’s second city Aleppo late on Tuesday, the aid group [...]

(Human Rights Watch) – An attack on a United Nations aid convoy and on a Red Crescent warehouse in Aleppo should be investigated as possible war crimes. The apparent airstrikes on September [...]

(OCHA) – Statement by ERC Stephen O’Brien – I am disgusted and horrified by the news that a United Nations/Syrian Arab Red Crescent convoy was hit this evening in Urum al-Kubra [...]

(Norwegian Refugee Council) – After five decades of civil war, the people of South Sudan celebrated their long awaited independence in July 2011. Five years later, internal power struggles [...]

(Amnesty International) – States – including the USA and UK – must immediately stop supplying weapons that could be used in the Yemen conflict, Amnesty International said, as it confirmed [...]