the current chaos in the Palestinian enclave and the total collapse of the health system there has made counting the dead and verifying Hamas’ reports impossible. "U.N. agencies have ...

who is an independent expert appointed by the UN Human Rights Council but who does not speak on behalf of the United Nations. "The health system in Gaza has been completely obliterated and the ...

Wade South Africa's president has signed into law a bill that aims to overhaul the healthcare system to address deep inequality, but it faces legal challenges from critics The World Health ...

UN spokesperson Farhan Haq told a daily briefing at the UN that the health ministry in Gaza recently published two separate death tolls – an overall death toll and a total number of identified ...

Survivors of flash floods in Afghanistan were still searching for the missing on Monday, days after torrents of water ripped ...

Few factors bear as heavily on the well-being of any state’s citizens as their overall health. In evaluating ... in God and the practice of the kapu system, a hierarchical social order similar ...

The Taliban have also stopped most Afghan female staff from working at ... women in the absence of a male guardian. Under the U.N. system, states' human rights records are subject to peer review ...

"The health system in Gaza has been completely obliterated, and the right to health has been decimated at every level," Mofokeng said. "The conditions are incompatible with the realization of ...

North Korea has test-fired a tactical ballistic missile equipped with a "new autonomous navigation system", state media said ...

More than 70% of workers around the world face climate change-related health risks, with more than 2.4 billion people likely to be exposed to excessive heat on the job, according to a report ...

GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Israel’s war in Gaza has from the start been a “war on the right to health” and has “obliterated” the Palestinian territory’s health system, a UN expert ...

Geneva (AFP) – Israel's war in Gaza has from the start been a "war on the right to health" and has "obliterated" the Palestinian territory's health system, a UN expert said on Monday. Tlaleng ...