The United Nations has warned that more than 3.5 million survivors of Pakistan’s massive floods do not have access to clean drinking water. “Millions of people are still faced with the dilemma of drinking contaminated water, putting them at risk of diarrheal diseases,” DPA quoted Karen Allen, deputy country representative of UNICEF in Pakistan, as [...]

Floods have affected millions of people in Pakistan and only a small number of them are within reach of emergency aid, a UN agency says. “About 3.2 million people have been affected by the floods. 1.4 million of them are children,” Reuters quoted Marco Jimenez, a spokesman for the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), as saying [...]

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says that the rate of people dying from unsafe water exceeds all forms of violence, including war. More than 155 million people (39 percent) of the population in West and Central Africa do not have access to potable water, the UN children’s agency UNICEF says. “These deaths are an affront [...]

Yemen’s Hezbollah Movement Houthi fighters say the central government has kept its siege over the capital of the northern province of Sa’ada. “The army continues to this moment to refuse to lift the siege on the city of Sa’ada,” the Houthis said on their website on Thursday, adding that the Yemeni soldiers were re-establishing military [...]

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said Friday children have gone missing from hospitals in Haiti following the devastating earthquake in the country, raising fears they are being trafficked for adoption abroad. “We have documented around 15 cases of children disappearing from hospitals and not with their own family at the time,” said UNICEF adviser [...]

A Houthi leader has slammed the United Nation for what he has described as the international body’s lack of action aimed at ending the “siege on civilians in northern Yemen.” Yahya al-Houthi told Press TV on Thursday that the UN’s approach to the war is as if the body did not exist at all. Al-Houthi [...]

Iran’s Foreign Ministry has expressed concern over the humanitarian implications of ongoing clashes in Yemen’s northern province of Sa’dah. Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hassan Qashqavi cautioned, in an official statement on Tuesday, that a humanitarian crisis may be unfolding in the Arab state. “The clashes in Yemen over the past month, especially the unrest in the [...]