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U.N. panel demands combatants protect humanitarian aid workers
The vote reflects the alarming number of attacks and threats that aid workers face each year around the world.
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The vote reflects the alarming number of attacks and threats that aid workers face each year around the world.
Humanitarian aid trickled into Gaza but agencies were being forced to scale back as fuel and other basic items were depleted and diplomats remained at an impasse.
Funding for humanitarian aid has been getting hard to find amid global economic pressures, but the needs are soaring.
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.
Delegates in Geneva mustered a non-binding report that essentially prolongs a decade-old geopolitical impasse.
Humanitarian leaders say the risk of nuclear catastrophe is the highest 'since the worst moments of the Cold War.'
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Hundreds of accounts of world leaders and their institutions, plus 40 organizations and their leaders, were to be demoted.
The deal brokered by U.N. and Red Cross officials between Yemen's Saudi-backed government and Iran-backed Houthi rebels is the first major prisoner swap in almost three years.
New ICRC guidelines are meant to protect innocent civilians and detainees against violence by non-state armed groups.
With leadership under fire and a mix of crises, finance ministers and central bankers held World Bank meetings.
The U.N. health chief blamed racism in world leaders' neglect for the humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.
International investigators were directed to focus their efforts on possible war crimes by Russian soldiers near Ukraine's capital and other regions.
Red Cross and U.N. workers rescued civilians from Ukraine's besieged Mariupol, busing them to safety as part of a negotiated "safe passage" operation.
Russia has clearly violated international humanitarian law and abused human rights during its invasion of Ukraine since late February, OSCE reported.
Hackers broke into the ICRC's computer servers and gained access to confidential information on more than half a million "highly vulnerable people."