Rise in women prisoners and COVID measures, ‘making sentences worse’

More than 700,000 women are in prison around the world, and that number is growing much faster than men, the Human Rights Council has heard.

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World News in Brief: Half of Haiti’s displaced are children, alarm over low immunisation rates, aid to East Africa

World News in Brief: Half of Haiti’s displaced are children, alarm over low immunisation rates, aid to East Africa

02 Oct 2024

A breakdown in law and order and a wider humanitarian emergency across Haiti have displaced more than 700,000 people – one in two of them children – the UN migration office, IOM, said on Wednesday.

Displacement, humanitarian needs surging inside Afghanistan and across region

08 Feb 2022

Conflict last year had forced more than 700,000 Afghans to leave their homes and added to the 5.5 million people already displaced over past years, the UN migration agency said on Tuesday.

Somalia: Urgent support needed for rural communities facing famine

20 Dec 2022

Famine is fast approaching in Somalia and more than 700,000 people could face starvation next year, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned on Tuesday, citing the latest Integrated Food Security Phase (IPC) analysis.