On a bustling street in this city near the border with Syria, a tiny boy among other children tries to sell chocolate biscuits in a box. "Would you buy one?" he keeps asking, while pulling his loose, dirty trousers up to his thin waist. 　　Seven-year-old Atman Khalil is the youngest... More

　　As a Palestinian citizen of Israel, 21-year-old Shadan Jabareen says she has experienced institutionalized discrimination since she was a child. In 1994, her parents wanted to get away from the constant noise and the overcrowded Umm al-Fahm and move to a Jewish-Israeli community. 　　"My dad heard an advertisement on the... More

　　The Ebola outbreak in West Africa kills seven out of 10 victims and new cases could hit 10,000 a week within two months if it is not brought under control, the World Health Organization has said. 　　The organization's assistant director-general Dr. Bruce Aylward said on Tuesday that the death rate... More

　　U.N. experts questioned Israeli officials on Monday over alleged rights abuses ranging from the demolition of Palestinian houses and the expansion of Jewish settlements to limited Palestinian access to water and their farmland. 　　Israel's delegation defended its record before the United Nations Human Rights Committee, which examined respect for civil... More

　　Over a third of the 10 million stateless people across the world are children, said the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Tuesday at the launch of a global campaign aimed at eradicating statelessness in 10 years' time. 　　"Statelessness is inhuman. We believe it is time to end this... More

　　The water at the Lietchor refugee camp has gone from waist to knee high, but it was still deep enough last month for a five-year-old to drown as his mother went to collect her weekly grain rations. 　　"I had a boy and he drowned and I no longer have him,"... More

　　It was the afternoon of April 2, 1992, in Bijeljina, in eastern Bosnia - where Trbic was captured. The leader of the Serbian Volunteer Guard, known as the "Tigers", was sitting in an army truck loaded with weapons. Trbic recalls that through the night until dawn, he was beaten and... More

　　More than 3,400 people have died in the Mediterranean this year trying to reach Europe, the UN's refugee agency said Wednesday, urging governments to take more action to save lives. 　　The UNHCR said at least 348,000 people, including a growing number of asylum seekers, had taken to the seas worldwide... More

　　Tens of thousands of people have died in South Sudan during one year of war and the country's leaders are putting their "personal ambitions" ahead of the young nation's future, the UN secretary-general has said. 　　Ban Ki-moon called on the country's leaders to agree to an inclusive power-sharing arrangement that... More

　　The world has been silent about the killing of millions of people in the Muslim world, Mehmet Gormez, Turkey's head of religious affairs, said Tuesday. 　　"On one hand, (around) 12 million people have been massacred in the Islamic world in the last 10 years, and on the other hand, 12... More

　　Following the release of the film American Sniper in theaters across the US, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) has warned of a “significant rise in violent hate rhetoric targeting the Arab and Muslim-American communities.” 　　The Arab-American civil rights organization has asked "American Sniper" director Clint Eastwood and actor Bradley Cooper... More

　　Aid workers in South Sudan are finding it hard to operate because roadblocks are suddenly being erected in some areas, the UN's top official for humanitarian assistance has said. 　　The UN warned two and a half million people are on the brink of famine, and food stocks in some places... More

　　Gaza farmers are being 'particularly badly affected' by Israel's tight restrictions on their movement. 　　Amjad Abu Ayash, 56, stood atop a hill and looked out across a patch of charred agricultural land spotted with busted water pipes. "They call this area the 'land of death' because even the birds that... More