[ad_1] OCHA said that communities there had spent the day cleaning up, and counting the cost of the storm, categorized as Extremely Severe, when it smashed into Myanmar’s

[ad_1] Increasingly grim accident statistics provided the impetus for action, including two bus crashes in Senegal that claimed 62 lives in January. In nearby Côte d’Ivoire,

[ad_1] The very severe cyclonic storm is quickly strengthening in the Bay of Bengal, threatening the region with violent winds, flooding, and landslides that could potentially

[ad_1] That’s according to a fact-finding report from the UN human rights office (OHCHR) released on Friday, on what the Malian authorities had described as an anti-terrorist

[ad_1] The urgent call from the ten Special Rapporteurs and members of the Working Group on discrimination against women and girls, came in response to an

[ad_1] The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) sounded the alarm on Wednesday after locusts were spotted in the country’s north and northeast. FAO said that

[ad_1] More than 10 people are put to death each week in Iran, High Commissioner Türk said, making the country “one of the world’s highest executors”,

[ad_1] “Corporal punishment is a violation of the Convention against Torture and must cease,” said UNAMA’s human rights chief Fiona Frazer, stressing that the UN is

[ad_1] “In this community, many children don’t go to school or pre-school, because they don’t have food. Many others can’t afford the school fees. I can’t

[ad_1] “It is time to end the violence,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said at the high-level meeting of the Regional Oversight Mechanism of the Peace, Security