2020-07-15
The coronavirus pandemic has taken a toll on Syrian refugees in two Jordanian camps. Soaring unemployment, poverty and lack of access to medical care present a serious humanitarian crisis.
2020-06-17
Amnesty International claims ‘the real number of deaths is far higher’ than announced, and has called on the UN to open an inquiry.
2020-06-10
Iran was slow to admit that 230 people had been killed in the November protests, and many feel it is still misrepresenting the number.
2020-06-08
The militia has commandeered ambulances and imposed burdensome conditions on aid organisations operating in areas it controls.
2020-05-29
The Iran-backed militia has been forcing neighbourhood leaders in Sanaa to recruit civilians, who are being taught to handle guns and sent to fight.
2020-05-01
The UN agency said it had no choice but to reduce food aid as it is facing a 'severe' lack of funding in a 'very difficult' operating environment.
2020-04-24
A Houthi-run court in Sanaa sentenced four journalists to death and is refusing to release another six who already served out their sentences.
2020-04-22
'We are shocked that the Iranian authorities have once again defied their international obligations by executing a child offender,' UN experts said.
2020-04-21
Yemen's Deputy Minister of Human Rights Nabil Abdul Hafeez described the Houthis' threat to the UN agency as 'cheap blackmail'.
2020-04-10
Authorities at several prisons responded to protests with live ammunition and tear gas, killing some 35 inmates, rights group reports.
