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The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) called on the international community on Friday to "urgently consider" sending a specialized support force to impoverished Haiti, which has been gripped by a "living nightmare" of gang violence.

Syria's government has approved humanitarian aid delivery across the frontlines of the country's 12-year-old war, state media said on Friday, a move that could speed up the arrival of help for millions of people affected by Monday's deadly quake. Aid distribution will take place in cooperation with the United Nations,…

Iran has long been one of the world's most prolific executioners. But it seems to have taken the death penalty to a new level recently, with dozens of people executed in the last few weeks, according to the Norway-based NGO Iran Human Rights. The UN has denounced what it calls…

The new rules are designed to speed up deliveries.

Hundreds of thousands more people have been left homeless in often sub-zero winter conditions

The mother gave her young daughter a huge hug after being helped to freedom and safety

It didn’t take long for Syria’s Assad regime to seek political and economic benefit from the devastation of an earthquake. As emergency services were reaching victims of the 7.8-magnitude tremor on February 6, regime-linked organisations demanded governments “immediately end the siege and unilateral coercive economic sanctions imposed on Syria and…

An aid convoy from Syria's Kurdish-led region to earthquake-hit areas of the northwest was turned back on Thursday, failing to reach those in need in the latest example of how relief efforts are being complicated by civil war enmities.

The head of the Syrian "White Helmets" emergency response group accused the United Nations on Friday of failing to deliver appropriate humanitarian aid to rebel-held areas of the country ravaged by a major earthquake and its aftershocks.