Morning Dispatcher - Human Welfare

Human Welfare

Nov 14, 2022

Family says Egyptian hunger-striking activist drinking water

The family of Egypt’s imprisoned hunger-striking activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah says he has started drinking water again

Nov 14, 2022

Family: Egyptian hunger-striking activist drinking water

The family of Egypt’s imprisoned hunger-striking activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah says he has started drinking water again

Report: Iran sentences anti-government protester to death

Nov 13, 2022

State media says Iran’s Revolutionary Court has sentenced an anti-government protester to death, and handed down jail terms to five others

Nov 8, 2022

Live updates | UN Climate Summit

The family of a prominent jailed activist on a hunger and water strike has become increasingly concerned about his health

Oct 24, 2022

Rights group: Turkey forces hundreds to return to Syria

A leading human rights group says hundreds of Syrian men and boys have been detained, beaten and forcibly returned to their country by Turkish authorities over a six-month period

Renewed militia clashes rock western Libya; child killed

Sep 26, 2022

Local officials in Libya say that a new round of infighting between rouge militias in the country's west has killed a 10-year-old girl

Sep 18, 2022

UN: Exclusion of Afghan girls from high schools 'shameful'

The United Nations is calling on Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to reopen schools to girls in grades 7 through12, calling the anniversary of their exclusion from high school “shameful.”

Sep 16, 2022

12 die under collapsed structures amid heavy rains in India

Heavy rains have caused structures to collapse in northern India, killing at least 12 people

Sep 11, 2022

Aid for flood victims arrives in hard-hit Pakistani province

Two more U.S. military planes loaded with tons of aid for Pakistanis affected by flooding from deadly monsoon rains have landed in southern Sindh province

Sep 7, 2022

Video of child refugee in Libya sheds light on rampant abuse

A video has emerged on social media of a 15-year-old Sudanese refugee boy being tormented by gunmen in Libya demanding ransom