"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

　　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