
Journalism watchdog's global index shows press freedom is under attack
Reporters Without Borders warned that governments' support for press freedom around the world has been shrinking.
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Reporters Without Borders warned that governments' support for press freedom around the world has been shrinking.
The Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa said the health leader was "targeted by an Ethiopian government investigation that appears to have been politically motivated."
The U.N. said Russia has been forcing up food prices globally by preventing grain from reaching international markets.
Fighting led the ranks of those who need aid and protection to swell to 24.6 million, slightly more than half the population.
Most of Khartoum, Darfur and North Kordofan are too dangerous to operate in, the U.N. refugee agency said.
Low rainfall and high evaporation rates 'would not have led to drought at all in a 1.2° C. cooler world,' scientists concluded.
Sudan's unraveling forced humanitarian aid organizations, including those with staff killed by fighting, to suspend operations, despite millions of civilians in great need.
Some 129,000 people are 'staring death in the eyes' while 11.9 million children under 5 could face acute malnutrition.
A quarter of all humanity lives today in places that are affected by conflict and usually it's the civilians 'who suffer the most.'
Six nations have gender parity or a women's majority: Rwanda, Cuba, Nicaragua, Mexico, New Zealand and U.A.E.
Most of the world's 8 billion inhabitants prefer to stay within their nation of birth, but almost 1-in-20 have left that behind.
The U.N. health chief blamed racism in world leaders' neglect for the humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.
The U.N. Human Rights Council created an international commission of experts to investigate the war in Ethiopia.
After warning of 'a full-scale humanitarian crisis' in Ethiopia, officials said 32,000 people fled and 200,000 more may follow.
The U.N. Human Rights Council voted to examine abuses from Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko’s crackdown over a disputed presidential election.
Refugees International gave the Trump administration's U.S. practices a 'failing grade' for a second year in a row.