Human Crisis

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reports that Afghanistan’s 23.7 million people, including 12.3 million children, require humanitarian assistance in 2024.

Israel's war on besieged Gaza, now in its 205th day, has killed at least 34,454 Palestinians — 70 percent of them babies, children and women — and wounded over 77,575 while some 8,400 people are feared buried under the rubble of bombed buildings.

What is happening in Gaza is a “repeat of Auschwitz” and a “collective white imperialist man’s genocide,” a prominent human rights activist and genocide scholar has said.

Following the United Kingdom Parliament’s passage of the “Safety of Rwanda” bill, two top UN officials sounded an alarm on Tuesday about its harmful impact on global responsibility-sharing, human rights and refugee protection.

Palestinians in the occupied West Bank are living in fear as armed Israeli settlers attack them, their families and homes in vengeful acts of violence which could uproot hundreds of Palestinians from their lands, residents said.

Twenty years ago this month, photos of abused prisoners and smiling U.S. soldiers guarding them at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison were released, shocking the world. Now, three survivors of Abu Ghraib will finally get their day in U.S. court against the military contractor they hold responsible for their mistreatment.

Mohammad Sukkar is safe now – or safer – but even as the team at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah work to help him, his eyes fill with tears as he recounts his experience in al-Shifa Hospital.

Israel's war on besieged Gaza — now in its 176th day — has killed at least 32,705 Palestinians and wounded 75,190 as Biden reportedly approves transfer of new bombs, warplanes to Israel.

A Rome-based food security organisation operating in over 30 countries has scraped together compelling data on Gaza’s hunger crisis, concluding that the besieged enclave has hit the catastrophe-phase 5 mark.

Israel's war on besieged Palestinians of Gaza — now in its 175th day — has killed at least 32,552 people and wounded 74,980 as World Court orders Israel to stop Gaza starvation crisis.