Youk Chhang, director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-CAM) and a survivor of the Khmer Rouge’s killing fields, recently received $6.5 million from the US government via USAID to…
Theoneste Bagosora, a former Rwandan army colonel regarded as the architect of the 1994 genocide in which more than 800,000 ethnic Tutsi and Hutus who tried to protect them were killed, has…
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Using apocalyptic images, three presidents and seven foreign ministers warned Thursday that a warmer world is also a more violent one. At a ministerial meeting of…
GENEVA, Sept 24 (Reuters) - The United Nations human rights chief called on Belarus' neighbours on Friday to protect asylum seekers after four people died near the Polish border earlier…
fter a no-confidence vote in Libya’s transitional government this week added to uncertainty ahead of key elections in December, one of its leaders said Thursday the government would hold an…
World leaders are delivering their speeches at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. In the past, Africans have mainly ignored this event but this year appears to be different.…
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Billions of people are overweight, millions are hungry, one third of food is wasted and the way the world produces, processes and consumes food…
NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Associated Press reporter Cara Anna about the humanitarian situation in Tigray — the war-torn region of Ethiopia where people are facing famine. TRANSCRIPT STEVE INSKEEP,…
Faced with what they see as an existential threat, leaders from low-lying and island nations implored rich countries at the United Nations General Assembly this week to act more forcefully…
Clashes between armed resistance forces and the military in recent days have prompted a new wave of evacuations in the northwest region. Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations High Commissioner for…