Members of the Muslim Rohingya minority continue to flee Myanmar. Said Ra'ad al-Hussein, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said that more than 11,000 Rohingya had migrated to Bangladesh since the beginning of this year.
Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres demands a direct end to military action in the Daraa region in south-western Syria. That is what Gautes spokesperson said on Friday. Since the start of the offensive, dozens of people have already been killed.
In recent days, about 220 people drowned off the coast of Libya in an effort to reach Europe. It has announced the UN refugee organization, UNHCR, Thursday. The organization relies on information from survivors.
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is largely under control, reports the World Health Organization of the UN, the WHO. Since 9 June, when the last registered patient died from the virus, no new cases have been detected.
It is not given to everyone, but Iñaki Urdangarin, the brother-in-law of the Spanish king Felipe VI, was allowed to choose his own prison. He chose one where he is the only male inmate between 162 women.
Due to wars, violence and persecutions, 16.2 million people were displaced last year. This is stated in a report from the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR, which was released on Tuesday.
A brother-in-law of the Spanish king Felipe VI, Iñaki Urdangarin, entered the prison of Brieva on Monday. He must sit for five years and ten months for embezzlement, forgery and tax fraud.
The outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo has reached a 'critical stage' according to the Red Cross. 'The spread of the disease has slowed down in recent weeks, but that does not mean that the outbreak has completely stopped,' the aid organization reports.
How should we proceed with Princess Cristina? The Spanish media ask this question after her husband Iñaki Urdangarin has been sentenced to five years and ten months in prison.
The fight against the further spread of the dreaded Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo is proceeding according to plan. That says Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO). 'It is stabilizing. We are optimistic, cautiously optimistic. '
The medical emergency in the Gaza Strip is enormous with about 13,000 injured, which is why the Red Cross is sending extra doctors and specialists together with other emergency aid. Since 30 March, so many people have been injured in the protests against Israel that existing medical assistance is impossible, according to the chief of the international Red Cross in the region, Robert Mardini.
Almost all residents of the Congolese city of Mbandaka who are most at risk of becoming infected with the Ebola virus have been vaccinated against the dreaded disease. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced this on Tuesday. In total, more than 400 people who have had contact with Ebola patients have been vaccinated.
Two Ebola patients who had left a Congolese hospital attended a prayer meeting shortly before their death. As a result, dozens of people may be exposed to the deadly disease, a health care worker said.
An independent committee should investigate the Israeli army's violence against Palestinian demonstrators at the border between Gaza and Israel. The Human Rights Council of the UN has decided to do so. The committee is commissioned to find out whether humanitarian peoples law has been violated.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has 'strong indications' that the outbreak of ebola in Congo 'can be brought under control.' The organization does not see the new outbreak of the deadly virus as an international emergency at the moment. From Sunday, emergency services will vaccinate people in risk areas with an experimental vaccine.
The violence that the Israeli army has used against protesting Palestinians on the border of Gaza is 'out of all proportion,' says UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ra'ad al-Hussein. At a UN meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, he stated that residents of the Gaza Strip were 'imprisoned in a toxic slum from their birth until their death.'
The World Health Organization (WHO) increased its assessment of the public health risk of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo from 'high' to 'very high' at national level.
The Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo has entered a new phase. The disease has reached Mbandaka, the capital of the Equateur province. In the urban area, Ebola can penetrate much faster than in rural areas, where the disease had been observed so far.
The United Nations Human Rights Agency has criticized the 'terrible, deadly violence' used by Israeli security forces against demonstrators. The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) expressed great concern about possible new confrontations on Tuesday.
The UN Human Rights Chief urged Turkey on Wednesday to immediately lift the state of emergency to pave the way for credible elections.
Each year, 7 million people worldwide die from air pollution, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates in a report on Wednesday.
At least four people were killed in the Swiss Alps. They had been forced to spend the night in the open air, reports the police in the Valais canton.
A rock that crashed in the desert in Sudan in 2008 was a remnant of an ancient vanished planet. Swiss scientists have examined the meteorite and come to that conclusion.
An estimated five hundred victims of a suspected poison gas attack in Syria are in hospitals with 'signs and symptoms of exposure to toxic chemicals'. This says the World Health Organization (WHO), which condemned the reported attack with chemical weapons in the Syrian Douma last weekend.
Employees of the United Nations in Syria can not confirm that chemical weapons were deployed last weekend in Duma, a devastated and surrounded suburb of Damascus. According to a spokeswoman for the World Health Organization (WHO), people who have had problems with breathing have been treated in recent days. Whether or not the health problems have anything to do with chemical weapons, the WHO could not determine on the spot.
The United Nations issued an alarm on Tuesday about 'a wave of displaced persons' from the Syrian enclave in East Ghouta. It is estimated that more than 133,000 people have fled the area within four weeks, where UN aid organizations still do not have access.
Due to an explosion in the kitchen of a restaurant in Geneva, fifteen people were injured on Saturday. A gas bottle had exploded, the Swiss news agency SDA reported.
The United Nations human rights office has called for a thorough investigation into the deadly fire at a Venezuelan police station. Forty-eight people lost their lives on Wednesday when fire broke out after prisoners had revolted.
The United Nations has requested full access Tuesday to citizens who need help in and outside the Syrian region of East Ghouta. In recent days, 50,000 people have fled the besieged area. Another 104,000 people have been expelled from home by the fighting in the northern Afrin. 'These people have left with nothing and they need everything, from clothing to shelter,' said a spokesperson for the UNHCR refugee organization.
Hungary has defended its anti-immigration policy on Monday at the United Nations (UN). The country underlined that it is determined to maintain a homogeneous, Christian society.
