Young Venezuelan refugees get a fresh start in Trinidad’s schools
When 11-year-old Venezuelan refugee Astrid Saavedra walked into her fourth-grade classroom in Trinidad and Tobago for her first day of…
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Salt Chambers, Crematoriums, Makeshift Morgues: Horrors Of Assad’s Prison
Beirut: Saydnaya prison north of the Syrian capital Damascus has become a symbol of the inhumane abuses of the Assad…
Syria: UN teams support cholera vaccination in northeastern camps
The cholera outbreak was detected in the camp in early October and subsequently confirmed by laboratory tests. Because Al Hol…
‘Hospitals have become battlegrounds’: Gaza’s health system on brink of collapse
In a Security Council meeting on Friday, Dr. Rik Peeperkorn, World Health Organization (WHO) representative for the West Bank and Gaza,…
MIDDLE EAST CRISIS LIVE: Security Council holds emergency meeting on collapse of Gaza health system
The UN Security Council is meeting in emergency session at 10am in New York on the collapse of health services…
Haiti gangs crisis: Top rights expert decries attacks on hospitals
William O’Neill, who reports to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, highlighted an attack on the Bernard Mevs Hospital…
Gaza: ‘Every day without a ceasefire will bring more tragedy’
Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini stressed that no place and no one in Gaza has been safe since the war began in…
World News in Brief: Deaths on the Mediterranean, rights in Venezuela, new Security Council members take their seats
Regina De Dominicis – who also heads the agency’s Europe and Central Asia Regional Office – issued her plea for…
Palestinians Released From Israeli Jails Bear Psychological Scars
Cairo: Once muscular and strong, Palestinian bodybuilder Moazaz Obaiyat’s nine-month spell in Israeli custody left him unable to walk unaided…
Israel attacks push Gaza healthcare ‘to brink of collapse’
A report published by the Office documents attacks carried out between 12 October 2023 and 30 June 2024, raises serious concerns about…