Thousands of displaced families living in Lebanon are focused on daily concerns rather than ‘peace talks’. 　　As delegates meet in Geneva for a second time to discuss peace in Syria, Lebanese army tanks rolled past bullet-scared buildings in Tripoli's Sunni neighborhood of Bab al-Tabbaneh. Watching them pass along Syria Street,... More

　　The UN is seeking $2bn this year to combat food insecurity in Africa's Sahel region, where 1.2 million people have been forced to flee their homes because of violence. 　　UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos announced the appeal in Rome on Monday, saying "more people than ever" were at risk of... More

　　Mohammed has paid a heavy price for treating the wounded in his home country. 　　In late 2012, he was working as a field doctor in Damascus when he became the target of a brutal crackdown on those providing medical assistance to the injured in opposition-held areas. "I left Syria after... More

　　Holding her son's death certificate in one hand, Layla Awad explained that she had been provided with basic aid but struggles financially after the men in her family were killed in November. 　　"Both of my sons are dead but I have not been given their pension yet," she said. 　　Awad's... More

　　Racism has increased among French people according to an annual report by the French National Consultative Commission on Human Rights (CNCDH) on the fight against racism. 　　The report released Tuesday said 35 percent of surveyed French people acknowledged being racist comparing to 29 percent in 2012. Nine percent among them... More

　　This week, Giacinto-Boulos Marcuzzo, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Nazareth had a note delivered at his home. It warned that he and his followers had until May 5 to leave the "land of Israel". On Tuesday April 29, Israeli police announced that a Jewish man from Safed had been arrested... More

　　The use of torture is widespread 30 years after the United Nations adopted a convention outlawing the practice, Amnesty International has said. 　　At least 44 percent of more than 21,000 people from 21 countries surveyed by the London-based rights group for its new report released on Monday, said that they... More

　　"Death was all over the place. Projectiles were not stopping … we miraculously fled the camp." 　　This is how Palestinian refugee Alaa Barakat described his last moments in Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus in December 2012. Barakat lived in the camp with his wife and two children, a three-year-old and... More

　　More than 50,000 children in South Sudan face death from disease and hunger, the United Nations has warned while seeking over $1bn to support those hit by six months of civil war. 　　"The consequences could be dire: 50,000 children could die this year if they do not get assistance," UN... More

　　The United Nations refugee agency has said that at the end of last year more than 50 million people had been forced from their homes worldwide, the highest figure of displaced people since World War II. 　　In its annual Global Trends report, released on Friday, UNHCR said that out of... More

　　Almost seven million people in Sudan are in urgent need of aid after the influx of refugees from the conflicts in Darfur and South Sudan worsened the crisis in the African nation, the UN said. 　　The figure is a jump from the United Nations' previous estimate of 6.1 million, issued... More

　　A new report has alleged that the Egyptian security forces' killings of at least 1,000 protesters at the Rabaa al-Adawiya Square sit-in last year in Cairo "most likely amount to crimes against humanity". 　　The 195-page Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released on Tuesday found that Egyptian security forces "gunned down... More

　　A UN report states that around 120 million girls worldwide have been forced to have sex and that globally one-fifth of murder victims from both sexes are under 20 years old, resulting in 95,000 deaths in 2012. 　　Drawing on data from 190 countries, the report released on Thursday from the... More