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U.N. experts conclude famine has spread throughout the Gaza Strip
Children's deaths from malnutrition and dehydration show that critical health and social structures have collapsed.
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Children's deaths from malnutrition and dehydration show that critical health and social structures have collapsed.
Independent experts convened by the U.N. cite a 'striking lack of any factual or legal substantiation’ for spying charges.
The expert report identifies Thai and Chinese banks as the main providers of financial support for Myanmar's junta.
The spending bill also has other 'key pro-Israel provisions' aimed at the U.N. and other international organizations.
The summit is focused on Europe's uncertain security, clouded by Russia's threat and America's political turmoil.
More than 12,250 people have been killed – including 101 U.N. staff helping Palestinian refugees and at least 4,300 children – and 32,300 others injured in the Gaza war, officials said.
In one glimmer of hope, hundreds of people were allowed to enter Egypt from Gaza, which one U.N. official called a "graveyard" for children who are caught up in the fighting.
Despite some aid trickling into Gaza through Egypt's Rafah crossing, needs are soaring as tensions flare that could cause the Israel-Hamas war to spread to other countries.
Officials say civilians' basic needs and protections must be upheld in accord with international humanitarian law.
At the end of a weeklong visit, the U.N. investigator's findings of an orchestrated state policy contradict Moscow’s denials.
The U.S., Albania, Japan, and South Korea led a U.N. Security Council session that shone a spotlight on starvation and repression under Kim Jong Un's regime.
Little more than a week ago, the U.N. Human Rights Committee warned of serious abuses in the nation.
The treaty body that gets the worst cooperation is the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
More than half of the deaths were never documented due to the difficulty of collecting reliable data on death tolls in conflict zones, made still harder by the brutality of Syria's war.
Most of Khartoum, Darfur and North Kordofan are too dangerous to operate in, the U.N. refugee agency said.
The commemoration is not meant to be a look solely into the past; the idea is to preserve and teach an ugly chapter of history that might help ward off humanity’s worst impulses.