...the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FOA) announced that there are approximately 11 million people in Yemen facing a severe lack of food security. This includes 4.8 million who face a state of emergency; while more than 1.3 million children are malnourished; one out of every three children under the age of five suffer from acute malnutrition; 850 thousand children are threatened with real famine;
On September 18, the UN General Assembly will bring together member states for the first ever Summit on Refugees and Migrants. An already-released draft declaration enshrining the outcomes promises a more coordinated, humane and responsive approach to people on the move.
Amnesty International called on the Jordanian authorities to facilitate humanitarian aid passage to about 75 thousand people of Syria trapped on its north-eastern borders in Rukban Camp, located on the Syrian-Jordanian border. The organization said in a report on Thursday, 15/09/2016, that the conditions of those stranded in the camp is extremely miserable due to food shortages and the spread of disease resulting in the deaths of a number of…
As reported by the Guardian and several media, Britain raised the subject of the plight of Rohingya Muslims during meetings with Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of Myanmar’s new government, during her recent visit to Britain.
The Syrian regime aircrafts carried out a new massacre targeting a funeral tent in al-Sukkari neighborhood of Aleppo, which led to the death and injury of more than 26 civilians including women and children.
5th of September, Al Jazeera reported that according to former Palestinian border officials and travelers, Egyptian officers are asking desperate Palestinians from Gaza for bribes of up to $10,000 to leave the besieged Strip through the Rafah Crossing. According to a former Palestinian official working for the Crossing Authority which oversees the Rafah terminal, nearly half a million dollars was taken by Egyptian officers from Palestinians