When the shooting starts, Sara tells her children to lie flat on the ground; the bullets, she said, can go straight through her family’s tent. Sara, who asked that her real name not be used, has been arbitrarily detained for nearly a decade in Roj camp in Syria’s far northeast, which holds more than 2,300…

Dhading; Rasuwa; Nuwakot, Nepal – As nine-year-old Ram Thakur walked uphill with his mother and dozens of others fleeing floodwaters on August 26, he looked back and saw brown water surging up. So they started running. His mother, who had been holding his hand until then, helped him climb faster. Then, as the sounds of…

On Tuesday, nearly 130 heads of state and government are expected to begin taking the podium at the annual United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York as the high-level general debate opens. The debate is the key event of the UNGA’s annual session, which began on September 8, when Khalilur Rahman of Bangladesh took…

UN expert says US forces have killed 223 people in 68 attacks in the Caribbean and the Pacific in the past year. A United Nations human rights expert has concluded that US attacks on suspected drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean violate international law and may amount to crimes against…