Half of Somalia, including Somaliland, has been hit by the Horn of Africa’s record-breaking drought. The country will experience its worst famine in fifty years, according to the U.N., if further relief does not arrive soon.
Human rights defenders are seeing a surge in potentially deadly boat journeys by Rohingya refugees as they try to reach countries in Southeast Asia where they can access schools, food and jobs.
Funeral homes in Beijing are operating around the clock amid a surge of COVID-19 cases, with cremations now backed up for at least five days, funeral parlor staff told Radio Free Asia on Wednesday.
Noura bint Mohammed Al Kaabi, a United Arab Emirates cabinet member and minister of culture and youth, addresses United Nations Security Council during its discussion on maintaining global peace and security, focusing on a new direction for reforming multilateralism
With a nearly record number of mass shootings, including a horrific attack on an elementary school and shooting sprees apparently driven by hate, gun violence claimed a heavy toll across America in 2022.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party, the country’s principal opposition organ, this past weekend held what was arguably the nation’s biggest anti-government rally in years, marking a solid end to the party’s long hiatus.
The Netherlands has honored detained Chinese feminist and rights activist Li Qiaochu with an award recognizing her dedication to human rights
In the Gulf of Guinea, fishing villages and fish stocks in West Africa are allegedly being decimated by Chinese boats, according to environmental groups. In order to combat illegal fishing, the nations in the Gulf of Guinea joined this year.
Chinese authorities have arrested an artist who painted a portrait of the “Bridge Man” protester Peng Lifa and posted it on Twitter, his wife and a rights group said.
Many young Ukrainians who left the war, were split from their families, and are still living in uncertainty. Diana Kryvorotko, 16, found refuge with a couple in Germany, but she is still unsure of when she will see her mother again.