At least 80 million children living in areas affected by war or natural disaster had their education disrupted last year, leaving them prey to child labor, trafficking and extremism, experts said on Thursday. 　　Many humanitarian aid appeals for 2015 ignored education, and aid appeals for education were only one-third funded.... More

　　A jabbing pain in his shoulder and thigh roused Obada from his sleep at 3am. In the half-light, the 15-year-old could make out eight masked men surrounding his bed, their rifles pointed at him. 　　"I felt terrified," he said of the experience of being arrested in February from his home... More

　　More than 60,000 people have been killed through torture or died in dire humanitarian conditions inside Syrian regime prisons throughout the country's five-year uprising, according to a monitor. 　　The numbers were obtained from Syrian regime sources, the United Kingdom-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday. 　　"Since March 2011,... More

　　Australia is deliberately ignoring the inhumane treatment of refugees held on the South Pacific island of Nauru as a means of deterring others from attempting the journey to Australia, two rights groups have said. 　　Under Canberra's immigration policy, people intercepted while trying to reach the country by boat are sent... More

　　Umm Baha has become a regular participant in protests against reduced UNRWA services in the besieged Gaza Strip. 　　The 43-year-old Palestinian widow says she has no choice but to demonstrate against recent cuts to services offered by the United Nations refugee agency. "The diminished assistance that I receive is disproportionate,... More

　　Ninety-nine years since Balfour's "promise", Palestinians insist that their rights in Palestine cannot be dismissed. 　　By Ramzy Baroud 　　Ramzy Baroud is an internationally-syndicated columnist, a media consultant, an author. 　　When I was a child growing up in a Gaza refugee camp, I looked forward to November 2. On that day,... More

　　More than 20 million children in the Middle East need immediate help, the UN children’s agency said. 　　Sunday is Universal Children’s Day and UNICEF has called for the rights of every child to be protected. 　　“More than 20 million children, who have been affected by wars and clashes in the... More

　　By the thousands they came, fleeing bombs, brutality and hardship. At day, they tore through muddy fields; at night, they huddled around small fires. Young and old, they passed through barbed wire, crammed inside trucks and braved rough seas in flimsy boats. 　　Along the way, they saw loved ones -... More

　　When the Russian intervention into the Syrian conflict accelerated in mid-2016, many analysts and partisans declared the "Battle of Aleppo" to hold the key to the future of the Syrian conflict. 　　Decisive victory one way or another, or the re-establishment of a military stalemate, would dramatically affect the course of... More

　　Abuses of power committed by Israel's Civilian Security Coordinators (CSCs), civilian guards of the illegal settlements, continue to contribute to settlement expansion into Palestinian-owned land across the occupied West Bank, according to an Israeli rights group. 　　In following the behavior of the CSC guards over a decade, rights group Yesh... More

　　More than two years after the 2014 war, displaced citizens are still struggling to survive. 　　Samia Qudaih and her husband, Mohammed Baraka, have been struggling to survive with their son and five daughters in the al-Zanah area of Gaza, east of Khan Younis, for the past two years. In preparation... More

　　The last time Gholam saw his wife and two children was in the brief moment before a high wave split their boat in half and catapulted the dozens of people on board towards the sea. 　　In the chaos of October 16, 2015, Gholam, an Afghan refugee from Kabul, held his... More

　　By Stanley L Cohen 　　Two weeks ago, the world stood fixated at a largely symbolic gesture by the United Nations in which it found the continued Israeli occupation of the West Bank of Palestine to be illegal. Or did it? 　　Although the UN Security Council, with rare uniformity, chastised Israel... More