New Guinea Island is home to one of the world's most important remaining stands of tropical rainforest. However, for many years, it has been under assault by illegal loggers and a community advocacy ...

In 1945, with cities in ruins and hope stretched thin, 50 nations gathered in San Francisco and reached for a better world. From the ashes of fascism, genocide, and world war, they forged a charter — ...

Israel's war in Gaza has killed tens of thousands of people and left many of the enclave's schools, hospitals and residential neighborhoods reduced to rubble — Bashar TALEB United Nations relief chief ...

Despite the scale of the crisis, international ... before the earthquake. The UN has received only US$34 million of the US$275 million needed for immediate relief for tens of thousands of people ...

The UN World Food Programme has warned that millions ... economic hardship and repeated extreme weather push the region towards a major crisis. No fewer than 36 million people are struggling ...

In February, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) also warned that the alarming human rights situation in Haiti requires immediate international assistance to save the ...

In response to the disaster, Cisco deployed what was then its Tactical Operations, or TacOps, team to help reestablish connectivity for first responders and victims. Now, 20 years later, what was then ...

The Department of Safety and Security (DSS) immediately activated its crisis ... response. At the same time, the Emergency Response Team embedded a Security Coordination Officer into the United ...

United Nations (United States) (AFP) – United Nations relief chief Tom Fletcher on Tuesday called on the UN Security Council to take action "to prevent genocide" in Gaza, delivering a scathing ...

Tucsonans struggling to access mental health treatment will soon have a new option regardless of their ability to pay, through the Crisis Response Center's upcoming expansion of urgent care services.

CHIANG MAI -- Myanmar's military regime has announced an extension of a ceasefire in its conflict with ethnic rebels until the end of the month to facilitate relief efforts in the wake of the ...

A First Nation in northwestern Ontario is seeking $200 million in emergency relief from the federal government to address the “critical” state of its water and sewage system as part of legal ...