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The United Nations refugee agency voiced deep concerned at a new law voted by the Hungarian Parliament that could lead to mandatory detention of all asylum-seekers, including many children – for...

Hearing the heart-wrenching stories of desperate families displaced in Somalia, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres urged a massive scale up in international support to avert a famine...

Amid a spike in new displacement triggered by the Iraqi military offensive to recapture western Mosul, the United Nations refugee agency is setting up new camps and expanding existing ones to...

Unhealthy environments are responsible for one-quarter of young child deaths, according to two new reports from the United Nations health agency, which reviewed the threats from pollutants such as...

Some 15,000 children have over the previous week fled the western section of Iraq’s Mosul city where fighting between the Government forces and terrorists is intensifying, the United Nations...

With nearly 274,000 people displaced, Yemen’s Taiz is now among the crisis-torn country’s top five hosting governorates for such populations, a United Nations report has found.

The first women-only factory in Iran was officially inaugurated last week in the city of Sari, northern Mazandaran province.

“Fake news” has emerged as a global topic of concern and there is a risk that efforts to counter it could lead to censorship

More than 1,000 civilians were killed or injured last month in Iraq, the United Nations mission in the country has announced.

Citing a significant rise over the past year in the number of women dying from drug overdoses globally, the independent expert body which monitors Governments’ compliance with the United Nations...

The world's money markets have priced people out of cities, a United Nations independent expert has said, blaming financial markets and speculators for treating housing as a “place to park capital.”

The people of crisis-torn Yemen urgently need humanitarian assistance and protection, especially in the north of the country where there is a threat of famine, the United Nations Emergency Relief...

The United Nations migration agency reported thousands of new arrivals at Iraqi sites for the internally displaced persons (IDPs) fleeing Mosul’s western sector where fighting is taking place...

"Israel’s administrative detention which is predominately used to detain Palestinians without charge or trial is arbitrary and abusive" said Magdalena Mughrabi, Deputy Middle East and North Africa...

With hundreds of thousands in need of assistance in famine-struck parts of South Sudan and rising insecurity hampering relief work, a senior United Nations relief official in the country has called...

UN Undersecretary General Erik Solheim said that Iran has managed to raise the issue of dust storm at international level and urge other countries to take practical measures to solve the problem.

Authorities have a duty to ensure effective strategies are in place to protect refugees, migrants and asylum seekers in South Africa against xenophobic attacks

United Nations human rights experts are calling for strong, urgent action by States to ensure that people around the world can enjoy the human right to live in environments free from contamination.

Here you can't walk around freely. For the children it’s like living in a prison, because they are scared. In schools there are many gang members who harass and scare them.

As details on the destruction of and damage to Iraq’s rich and diverse cultural heritage emerge, the United Nations cultural agency has appealed to the international community to help protect and...