DAKAR/ GENEVA/ABUJA, 23 June 2017 – More than 5.6 million children are at increased risk of contracting waterborne diseases, such as cholera and diarrheal infections, as the rainy season begins in conflict-affected areas of countries around Lake Chad, UNICEF warned today. The threat of disease outbr...

GENEVA, 13 October (UNHCR) - UN High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres, today expressed his deep shock and indignation at the violent abduction at the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya of two female MSF staff and the shooting of their driver. “These MSF colleagues were working to rescue live...

Joint UNHCR, UNICEF, IOM Press Release GENEVA, 16 February 2016 – An average of two children have drowned every day since September 2015 as their families try to cross the eastern Mediterranean, and the number of child deaths is growing said IOM, UNHCR, and UNICEF. The agencies are calling for enha...

Report warns refugee women on the move in Europe are at risk of sexual and gender-based violence Press Releases, 20 January 2016 Oumo*, a young woman from sub-Saharan Africa is fleeing persecution that has left her brother-in-law dead and her sister missing. Fearing for her life, she made the da...

THE ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) government has opened the door to all stakeholders in the peace dialogue process, inviting non-signatory ethnic armed groups to participate in the upcoming political dialogue framework meeting. During the first meeting with the United Nationalities F...

Internally Displaced Persons in Nigeria suffer disproportionately from different problems such as malnutrition, sickness, insecurity in the camps, lack of access to education, idles among others. The vulnerability of displaced persons is a major reason why sustainable strategies for rehabilitation m...

Twin ezplosions have been reported at the University of Maiduguri campus in Borno state of Nigeria. The number of casualities are yet unknown. The explosions by suspected Boko Haram terrorists attacked the Mosque in the campus. Read more: http://newsrescue.com/breaking-twin-bomb-blasts-un...

BANGUI, 4 août 2014 – L’Agence des Nations Unies pour les Réfugiés étend ses activités en République centrafricaine, dans les domaines de la surveillance des frontières, de la cohésion sociale, du monitoring de protection et de la lutte contre les violences sexuelles et sexistes. Alors que 399 530 r...