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Middle East and Africa
Facing an acute funding shortage, the United Nations agency for Palestine refugees is seeking more than $800 million for its emergency programmes for Syria and the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The…
Hundreds of school children in Gaza gathered Monday with the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), Mr. Pierre Krähenbühl, to launch the global fundraising campaign #DignityIsPriceless.…
Mr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), presented Thursday to the Security Council…
UN human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Wednesday condemned the upsurge in civilian casualties in Eastern Ghouta in Syria amid the recent escalation in airstrikes and ground-based attacks…
Millions of desperate people across Syria are now facing their seventh winter of war, the United Nations warned on Monday. It added that intensified military operations in the country’s north…
Demands by protesters in Iran for freedom and adequate living standards must be addressed and their rights respected, UN human rights experts have stated. Four Special Rapporteurs of UN expressed…