Humanitarian Affairs

Amid reports of an agreement between the governments of Bangladesh and Myanmar on return of Rohingya refugees to Myanmar, the United Nations refugee agency has underscored that the returns must…

    Papua New Guinea police moved into the shuttered Australian refugee camp on the country’s Manus Island Thursday in the most aggressive push yet to force hundreds of men…

    22 November 2017 – Achieving gender equality and the full empowerment of women is the answer to ending violence against women, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said Wednesday, calling for…

  Former president of South Africa Kgalema Motlanthe is leading a panel probing how legislative reforms can accelerate much-needed change The ills of the colonial and apartheid past are being…

By T. Roble Chinese government Tuesday donated $2 million to the UN children’s agency UNICEF to aid 15,000 children from severe acute malnutrition, in the southern and central regions Somalia.…

  China has proposed a three-phase plan for resolving the Rohingya crisis, starting with a ceasefire in Myanmar’s Rakhine State so that refugees can return from Bangladesh, China’s Foreign Ministry…

    Somalia needs humanitarian aid to stem its short-term suffering, but that cash will not break the country’s deadly cycles of drought, hunger, and poverty. To do that, the…

    ‘In 2016, most deaths caused by terrorism were in just five states: Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Nigeria and Somalia’ LONDON Terrorism should not be associated with any religion, ethnicity…

  Total of 31,500 refugees from Greece and Italy resettled by September this year, far below promised 160,000 BRUSSELS  The European Union has failed to implement a comprehensive refugee policy,…