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Two Ebola-related deaths confirmed in eastern Congo displacement camp - UN refugee agency

The two victims were internally displaced people living in the Kpangba camp, which hosts 30,000 refugees, UNHCR said in the report published on Thursday.

Aid agencies intensify efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo virus, in Bunia town, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo, June 11, 2026.
A woman walks near tents set up by displaced people, following an escalation between Hezbollah and Israel amid the US-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Beirut, Lebanon, March 13, 2026.

UN seeks $308 million for Lebanon as war displaces 800,000 people

CHILDREN, PART of a group of detainees, look through a fence at al-Hol camp after the Syrian government took control of it following the withdrawal of Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), in Hasaka, Syria, January 21, 2026.

Syrian detention camp for suspected ISIS relatives nearly empty, former director says

 Keith and Aviva Siegel  speak at The Jerusalem Post's Annual Conference in New York, US, May 19, 2025

Former hostages Aviva and Keith Siegel visit Kenyan refugee camp


How the Palestinian refugee issue can be resolved - opinion

To resolve the Palestinian refugee issue, the UNRWA should be dissolved and Arab regimes should grant citizenship to Palestinian refugees.

PALESTINIANS RECEIVE food aid at a United Nations distribution center in the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, on Monday.

Why is the future of Myanmar hanging in the balance? - opinion

Since the occupation of the civilian administration of Myanmar by the armed forces in February 2020 in the form of coup d’état, the country is being run by a military regime.

PROTESTERS HOLD torches during a demonstration in Mandalay, Myanmar.

UN: Number of people forced to flee homes has risen amid COVID-19 pandemic

"In the year of COVID, in a year in which movement was practically impossible for most of us... 3 million more people have been forcibly displaced," UN High Commissioner for Refugees said.

A general view of a Rohingya refugee camp after a fire burned down all the shelters in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, March 23, 2021.

US envoy Thomas-Greenfield balks at calling UNHRC antisemitic

Representatives quizzed Thomas-Greenfield, focusing on the UN bias against Israel, particularly at the UNHRC.

US AMBASSADOR to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield holds a news conference at UN headquarters in New York last week.

UN opens Israeli war crimes probe following Gaza war, calls for embargo

Following Operation Guardian of the Walls against Gaza terrorist groups, for the first time ever the UNHRC has created a permanent fact-finding mission regarding a UN member state.

Overview of the Human Rights Council one day after the U.S. announced their withdraw at the United Nations in Geneva,

UNHRC strengthens call for arms embargo against Israel

This is the four year in a row that the UNHRC has dealt with the issue.

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US: UNHRC should address 'disproportionate focus on Israel'

The decision is part of a larger policy stance by US President Joe Biden to engage with international institutions, that is diametrically opposite Trump's position of shunning such bodies.

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet attends a session of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland

UN says 11,000 have fled Ethiopia to Sudan, 50% of them children

About 7,000 of those crossing have arrived at Hamdayat in Sudan's Kassala state, with another 4,000 arriving at Luqdi in al-Qadarif state.

The Blue Nile flows into the Great Renaissance Dam in Guba Woreda, Ethiopia

Saudi Arabia’s failed UNHRC bid not just about human rights - analysis

Observers of United Nations affairs cite need for major reforms regarding way countries are elected to rights council.

Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights addresses a news conference at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland March 9, 2018. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

UN makes mockery of its Human Rights Council

“It’s logically absurd and morally obscene that the UN is about to elect to its top human rights body a regime that herded 1 million Uighurs into camps."

Overview of the Human Rights Council one day after the U.S. announced their withdraw at the United Nations in Geneva,