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South Sudan already hosts over 381,000 refugees and 2 million people internally displaced, with limited livelihood opportunities. The ongoing conflict in Sudan continues to compound an already critical situation, forcing people to cross into South Sudan. After almost a decade of conflict and despite attempts made to implement the peace agreement, South Sudan continues to […]
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) calls for an end to the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) affecting children and their families. The UN agency denounced in its report “global indifference” to the situation in eastern DRC; An indifference which “threatens a generation of children”. Displaced families live in overcrowded […]
Reporters Without Borders are concerned about the “risk of a major shift” in the situation of press freedom, “particularly in important democratic countries”. “Press freedom has never been so threatened,” by pressure attacks, false information, repression and the triumph of “strong men” such as Donald Trump or Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans […]
According to the report, US laws and practices violate internationally recognized human rights in incarceration, racial disparities, criminal justice, police killing of African Americans and foreign policy to name a few. “The United States locks up 2.37 million people, the largest reported incarcerated population in the world,” the report says, adding “about 12 million people […]
An explosion in Egypt’s volatile Sinai Peninsula has killed four soldiers and injured four others as deadly violence continues unabated in the region, a report says. The blast occurred on Tuesday when a military convoy struck an explosive device in the border town of Rafah, located 340 kilometers (211 miles) east of the capital, Cairo, […]
An increasing number of children are receiving life-saving vaccinations around the world, according to the latest data released by two United Nations agencies. In a press release issued earlier today, the World Health Organization (WHO) and UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) confirmed that the number of countries reaching and sustaining 90 per cent vaccination coverage for […]
Amnesty International has released its latest report on the state of human rights in 160 countries, warning that millions of people are subjected to grave human rights violation. The NGO accused the international community of not having done enough to protect civilians who have been killed, displaced, persecuted, abducted and tortured at the hands of […]
