ICRC financial crisis grows with more job cuts as funding shrinks
Funding for humanitarian aid has been getting hard to find amid global economic pressures, but the needs are soaring.
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Funding for humanitarian aid has been getting hard to find amid global economic pressures, but the needs are soaring.
At the end of a weeklong visit, the U.N. investigator's findings of an orchestrated state policy contradict Moscow’s denials.
Putin says Russia won't rejoin until the West meets its demands to ease shipping of Russian agricultural exports.
Talks are planned for Russia’s Black Sea resort of Sochi almost two months since Russia pulled out of the U.N.-brokered deal.
The U.S., Albania, Japan, and South Korea led a U.N. Security Council session that shone a spotlight on starvation and repression under Kim Jong Un's regime.
The conflict has pushed over 20 million people into severe acute hunger, including 6.3 million a step away from famine.
Panel members said they were deeply concerned about the deteriorating security in the northwest region of Ethiopia.
Little more than a week ago, the U.N. Human Rights Committee warned of serious abuses in the nation.
Increasing rice prices from India's ban “raises substantial food security concerns for a large swath of the world population."
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said that by keeping millions of tons of grain from Ukraine out of the international market, Russia was forcing up food prices around the world.
The U.N.-brokered Black Sea Grain Initiative signed between the world body, Russia, Ukraine and Turkey in July 2022 has been vital to allow food supplies to reach global markets.
The border crossing is essential for more than 4 million uprooted people in Syria who depend on humanitarian aid.
The treaty body that gets the worst cooperation is the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Moscow wants the transit of ammonia, a key ingredient in nitrogen-based fertilizers, to resume in Ukrainian territory.
A Swiss-led U.N. Security Council session called on all countries and armed groups to fulfill their obligations for protecting civilians under international humanitarian law.
The Black Sea Grain Initiative, a U.N.-brokered agreement signed between the world body, Russia, Ukraine and Turkey on July 22, 2022, will now continue at least until mid-July.