(Foreign Policy) – This southwestern Yemeni city has been battered for more than two years of urban battles. When I arrived there in March, the journey from the city’s outskirts to its center should have taken only 10 minutes; instead, it took us four hours, as we wound our way through mountainous roads and dozens […]
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(AFP) – Thouk Reath, 19, was recovering from a leg amputation after being shot in fighting in northeastern South Sudan when the clinic he was in had to be evacuated because of approaching gunfire. Patients and doctors at the clinic in the town of Maiwut risked being caught up in an army offensive closing in on […]
(The Guardian) – Charities have urged the UN to name and shame the Saudi-led coalition over child rights violations in Yemen after research showed more than 120 children were killed or maimed in airstrikes by the alliance last year. A briefing by Save the Children and Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict said the coalition committed “grave violations against children” […]
(Voice of America) – United Nations agencies report that an upsurge in violence and an alarming escalation of human rights abuses in the Central African Republic (CAR) are causing tens of thousands of people to flee across borders and thousands of others to become displaced within the country. The U.N. says the violence taking place in the […]
(GCPEA) – By endorsing the Safe Schools Declaration, Serbia has become the 67th country to join a political commitment by states to protect education in armed conflict, said the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA). The other countries of the former Yugoslavia that have already endorsed the Safe Schools Declaration are Montenegro and Slovenia. Link
(UNAMA) – The number of civilians killed and injured in the Afghanistan conflict during the first six months of 2017 persisted at the same record high levels as last year, according to a mid-year report from the United Nations. Extreme harm to civilians continued amid a worsening toll from suicide attacks, and a greater impact […]
(UN Assistance Mission for Iraq) – Mr. President, Distinguished Security Council members, I have the honour to introduce the fourth report of the Secretary-General pursuant to paragraph 7 of resolution 2299 (2016), as well as the fifteenth report of the Secretary-General pursuant to paragraph 4 of resolution 2017 (2013) on the issue of missing Kuwaiti and […]
(TheirWorld) – For most children, exam time means cramming in last-minute studying, a nervous walk to school and a worrying wait for the results. But for many others, it can mean long and arduous journeys – sometimes with overnight stays – to get to an exam centre. It can mean trying to study and answer test questions […]
(UNHCR) – Twenty-five-year-old Bernard* is a strong and healthy father of three. He does not seem like the type to be easily thrown off course by life. But right now, he is at a complete loss. “The children keep asking me, daddy, where is mama? They think of her a lot and cry,” he says. […]
(UNHCR) – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency is greatly alarmed over the violence and continued displacement of civilians from Kasaï, a region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo affected by conflict since late 2016. The estimated number of displaced people in Kasaï now stands at more than 1.3 million. During recent missions to two provinces […]
