Today: Precarious UN work, a key loss and damage board member bows out, and UNRWA’s funding thaw.

Peter Yeung writes about his experiences on the perilous Colombia-Panama jungle route that more than half a million migrants ...

Under pressure from a drug cartel, communities at the gateway to the Darién Gap have met the needs of migrants by developing ...

The UN-backed Special Criminal Court (SCC) in the Central African Republic has issued an arrest warrant for the country's exiled former president, François Bozizé, over alleged crimes against humanity ...

More government donors won’t solve humanitarian money troubles, but they could be a bigger part of the solution.

US diplomats say it’s hard trying to balance human rights concerns with helping the more than 20 million Afghans in need of ...

Should education policies push to include refugee children in national school programmes? What looks good on paper doesn’t ...

Seventeen months after the fighting stopped in Ethiopia’s northern region, millions of people are still going hungry.

In its first acts since being officially sworn in last week, Haiti's transitional governing council has named former sports minister Fritz Belizaire as the country’s new prime minister and Edgard ...

Thousands of Sudanese refugees who escaped to neighbouring Egypt have been detained by Egyptian authorities in a network of ...

The Palestinian political and militant group Hamas is soon expected to respond to a proposal for a 40-day ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

The Borno resettlement programme has been criticised for using vulnerable displaced people as a means to achieve ...