
Nearly 3 million more displaced people from wars and conflicts
Despite the pandemic, the number of people fleeing for safety around the world rose to almost 82.4 million last year.
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Despite the pandemic, the number of people fleeing for safety around the world rose to almost 82.4 million last year.
The United States pledged to restore aid to the Palestinians, almost two-thirds of it earmarked for UNRWA.
Syria's combatants have taken advantage of the international community's disastrous failures, the chair of a panel of U.N. investigators said.
U.N. experts unveiled fresh evidence of Syrian war crimes and possible crimes against humanity in opposition-held Idlib province since November.
An unprecedented 79.5 million people - two-fifths of them children - were forcibly displaced as of the end of 2019.
Human rights experts warily eyeing the first cases of coronavirus in Syria renewed long-ignored calls for an end to the war, this time in the name of health.
Syria's civil war has stolen the childhoods of 5 million boys and girls including many killed or suffering grave abuses of their rights, U.N. experts said.
The Trump administration's withdrawal of U.S. funding for Palestinian refugees could create a huge humanitarian crisis.
In a ceremonial handover, the Palestinian president assumed the chairmanship of the Group of 77 major bloc of U.N. votes.
Democrats vowed to redirect, block or investigate the U.S. president's foreign and domestic programs and priorities.
A new review of U.N. whistleblowing policies and practices by the U.N.'s Joint Inspection Unit showed little improvement.
In a world of 7.6 billion people, 44,500 people a day — one person every two seconds — are displaced, the U.N. said.