Pregnant women took shelter in a bunkerised maternity unit in the Ukrainian city of Kherson last week, after a hospital was ...

Gaza’s health system for mothers and newborns has been “decimated”, the UN said on Thursday, with Israeli attacks destroying ...

Venezuela’s Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) has been implicated in a decade-long pattern of killings, arbitrary detentions, ...

A World Health Organization (WHO) expert committee has again confirmed that there is no causal link between vaccines and ...

Intensifying fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has claimed more than 70 civilian lives, displaced ...

To commemorate this year’s Human Rights Day, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, invited members of the public to write in ...

The vast majority of World Health Organization (WHO) member States say 40 to 90 per cent of their populations now use ...

As another winter storm hits the Gaza Strip, low temperatures and rains are putting the lives of newborns and other vulnerable groups at risk, the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, said on Wednesday.

As other governments contemplate similar moves, the UN Children’s Fund ( UNICEF) cautions that age-related restrictions alone ...

Afghanistan’s worsening humanitarian crisis is being driven by the accelerating erosion of fundamental rights – especially ...

In Afghanistan, where sweeping restrictions have pushed most women out of public life, thousands are refusing to give up on ...

Global temperatures rises are projected to surpass 1.5°C (2.7°F) within the next decade, underscoring the urgency of the ...