World News

More than four in 10 women, live in fear of refusing partner’s sexual demands, new UN global study finds

More than four in 10 women in 51 countries surveyed, feel they have no choice but to agree to their partner’s sexual demands, the UN sexual and reproductive health agency, UNFPA, said on Wednesday, noting that they are also unable to make basic...

Full Story »
Blast in Sana’a kills another 14 children in school and injures 16, most under the age of nine

UN0209172_0_0_0.jpg

Full Story »
Libyan national conference postponed, nearly 500,000 children at ‘direct risk’ from fighting around Tripoli

image1170x530cropped_283_0_0.jpg
As renewed fighting broke out in Tripoli, Libya, in early-September, UNHCR’s local office...

Full Story »
UN’s Grandi slams ‘toxic language of politics’ aimed at refugees, migrants

image1170x530cropped_282_0_0.jpg
Colombian customs post at Rumichaca, border of Ecuador with Colombia. The UN refugee chief...

Full Story »