Such a definition would spark international action, but even refugee status is not being granted
Leaders from across the globe vacillated between calling for calm to denouncing the killing of civilians
The organisation will administer the vaccination to healthcare workers and anyone else who has been potentially exposed to Ebola.
Tendayi Achiume plans to study rampant structuralised racism amongst police forces towards minority groups and people of African descent
Time to stop the global proliferation of lethal autonomous weapons is running out
Many of Mali’s soldiers aren’t prepared to risk their lives fighting in the north of the country. One deserter explains why
Ahed Tamimi’s arrest highlights the vulnerability of Palestinians
The latest allegations have surfaced a month after South African troops were accused of sexually exploiting women in North Kivu.
‘The role and function of civil society is crucial in keeping the public focused on the issue of land rights’
‘South Africa is among the most guilty of e-waste pollution on the continent’
Many aren’t at school because of inadequate funding and unsuitable facilities and care
There is no system of oppression more fully documented – in UN reports and studies by human rights groups – than Israel’s crimes.
In an open letter to the president, a reader asks that refugees are given a lending hand
Gender parity is both an economic and a moral imperative
The world has abundant fresh water but it is unevenly distributed and under increasing pressure, United Nations agencies say
Activists have erected barricades in several neighbourhoods in the capital, Conakry
What has made internet platforms so profitable has also left them vulnerable to manipulation by malign actors
The African Union’s ‘spy’ computers show that aid always comes with strings attached
The appeal, made on behalf of UN agencies and humanitarian partners, came as 11.3-million people "urgently require assistance to survive"
Programmes to promote gender equality and counter poverty gain ground
Fake news exists. It’s propaganda, false and designed to cause harm — and it’s actionable
Even in its best days, the CAR was never much of a state. But since the outbreak of civil war in 2013, the government has all but ceased to exist
Unless care of the intellectually disabled changes there will be a never-ending series of tragedies
We look at how African men are being auctioned and being sold off to smugglers for as little as $400 as part of Libya’s slave trade
Since Donald Trump took office in January, the US has abandoned or threatened to quit several international accords under his "America First" policy.
The migration policies of the European Union have directly resulted in slavery conditions for migrants in Libya.
UN judges sentenced Ratko Mladic to life imprisonment after finding him guilty of war crimes in the brutal Balkans conflicts over two decades ago.
CNN aired footage last week of an apparent live auction in Libya where black men were presented as farmhands and sold off for as little as $400.
UN-backed peacekeepers have lost enough guns and ammunition in sub-Saharan Africa over the past two decades to arm an army, said Small Arms Survey
A UN peacekeeping force has been in Western Sahara since 1991 with a mandate to organise a referendum on its independence or integration with Morocco.
2017 is on track to be the hottest year on record except for two warmed by El Nino phenomena, the UN’s World Meteorological Organisation said Monday.
Liberia is heading to the polls on October 10 with twenty candidates on the ballot paper