During the Second World War, Pinchas Gutter, from Łódź, Poland, survived six Nazi concentration camps. Today he is a Holocaust educator, sharing his story...
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Airstrikes last week by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen that hit a detention facility in the northern city of Sa’ada, killed some 91 people...
‘Urgent, renewed effort’ needed to restore civilian rule in Myanmar: Bachelet
UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet appealed on Friday for the international community to intensify pressure on Myanmar’s military to stop its campaign of...
Northern Ethiopia: A record 9 million now need food assistance
After 15 months of conflict in Ethiopia, almost 40 per cent of Tigrayans are suffering an extreme lack of food, according to data released by the...
Team from UN Mission in Colombia attacked, vehicles torched
The UN Mission in Colombia was the target of an attack on Thursday, when three vehicles that were part of a joint expedition travelling through a...
More than 100 laws that remain in place around the world which discriminate against people affected by leprosy, should be abolished, an independent UN...
A UN envoy will travel to Burkina Faso over the weekend on a “good offices mission” in the wake of the military coup last...
Lebanon crisis robbing young people of their futures: UNICEF
More than four in 10 young Lebanese over just a 12-month period, reduced spending on education to buy basic food, medicine and other essential...
Boys Sold by Trusted Villager Turned Human Trafficker
Lucknow, India, Jan 28 (IPS) – Friends Ajay and Durgesh were lured from the same village in the remote and poverty-stricken countryside of eastern...
WASHINGTON DC, Jan 28 (IPS) – Consider the situation. Faced with growing fiscal stress, the government of an energy exporting country decides to cut...
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