The U.N. children’s agency, UNICEF said half a million children have already fled Ukraine to neighboring countries, with a growing number of refugees. Poland’s border guards said more than 600,000 people had crossed over. The UN expects that more than 10 million people may flee their homes if violence continues, including 4 million people who ...
The European Union offered immediate protection status to millions of Ukrainian nationals and long-term residents seeking refuge in the EU as of Feb. 24. But nearly everyone else, such as foreign students from Africa in Ukraine, is not covered. Some foreign students say they have watched as Ukrainian pets crossed the border to safety, while [&...
Young Fridays for Future climate campaigners took to the streets worldwide Thursday to stand with the people of Ukraine. They called for a world that prioritizes peace and freedom from fossil fuels for all. It criticized people for ignoring wars in South Sudan, Iraq, Nigeria, and the many other southern regions affected by “imperialist and [&h...
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bipartisan resolution Wednesday supporting Ukraine and calling for a ceasefire amid Russia’s war. It cleared the House floor with a 426-3 vote. Republican Reps. Paul Gosar of Arizona, Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Matt Rosendale of Montana cast the only opposing votes. The non-binding resolution also...
Lawyers for four families in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem said Thursday Ottoman and Jordanian documents prevented Israeli’s top court from enforcing eviction orders. The Israeli Supreme Court decision was “unprecedented,” lawyers said. They added they will continue efforts to prove Palestinian families own the land...
Schools in Indian-administered Kashmir reopened Wednesday after 31 months. Health professionals say mental health issues among children spiked during this period. Schools were first closed down due to the security situation arising from India’s revocation of Kashmir’s limited autonomy in August 2019. They remained closed later due to the restr...
Deborah Lyons, head of the U.N. mission in Afghanistan, said six months of indecision is “eroding vital social and economic coping systems,” pushing the Afghan population into greater uncertainty. As the Secretary-General’s Special Representative, Lyons thanked donors for humanitarian contributions since last August. That’s when the last U.S. ...
TERNTON, Canada (AA) – A new UN report calls on Canada to amend a law that has stripped Indigenous women of Indian status because they married non-Indigenous men. Yet, while the women lose their status under Canada’s Indian Act, passed in 1876, and therefore their children cannot inherit their mother’s heritage status, Indige...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The UN issued a stark warning on Friday after Russian forces attacked Europe’s largest nuclear facility, and seized it from Ukrainian authorities. The attack on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant resulted in a fire erupting at a training complex at the site, which was extinguished by Ukrainian firefi...
KYIV (AA) – A senior Russian military officer has been killed in Ukraine’s northern Chernihiv city, a Ukrainian official claimed on Friday. Anton Gerashchenko, an advisor to Ukraine’s interior minister, said on Facebook that Andrei Sukhovetskiy, deputy commander of the 41st Combined Arms Army of the Central Military District, has been ki...
