The U.N. emergency relief coordinator's office set a US$4.3 billion target to help people suffering in the war-torn nation.
Donors raised US$1.2 billion in pledges at a conference in Geneva to support and protect the most vulnerable people in war-torn Yemen.
The fundraising total Monday came to little more than a quarter of the US$4.3 billion goal for helping 17.3 million people, but U.N. estimates show 21.6 million people, or two-thirds of Yemen's population, will need emergency aid this year.
More than a third of the funds will support aid efforts for people in Yemen (US$20 million) and Ethiopia (US$15 million).
As the U.N. honored the Geneva Conventions, the Red Cross chief said non-compliance is a 'serious problem.'
The U.N.'s chief says it will work with Sudanese authorities to use a 'simplified system' for humanitarian aid deliveries.
The four international treaties, which form the rules of war, have been ratified or acceded to by virtually all nations.
The Court of Justice of the European Union's rulings in two landmark cases will cost the tech giants billions of euros.
People's health, nature and farmland all suffer from the spiraling negative impacts, says the U.N. health agency
Landlocked between Russia and China, Mongolia depends on Russia to meet its energy needs and China to buy its exports.
The guidance comes weeks before the U.N. General Assembly takes up the issue of AMR at its high-level meeting this month.
