Reports

GENEVA – UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk today called on the Bangladesh Government urgently to disclose full details about last week’s crackdown on protests amid growing accounts of horrific violence, and to ensure all law…

QUEZON CITY, PHILIPPINES – Save the Children is urging immediate action to protect the safety and well-being of an estimated *3.5 million children in Metro Manila who have been impacted by the back-to-back onslaught of Typhoons…

Situation Overview Super Typhoon Gaemi (local name Carina) has been downgraded to a typhoon as it crossed Taiwan and exited the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) on 25 July. The storm, combined with the effects of the…

MANILA, 25 July 2024 - Classes across the Philippines were suspended on Thursday[1], following a powerful typhoon that swept across the country and has made its way to Taiwan, Save the Children said. Footage shared by news…

A Philippine-flagged oil tanker capsized and sank off Manila on 25 July early morning hours at nearly seven kilometres (4.3 miles) off Limay municipality in Bataan province, near Manila. 16 of the 17 crew members had been…

Tropical cyclone GAEMI crossed northern Taiwan on 24 July and is moving over the Taiwan Strait approaching the coast of south-eastern China. On 25 July at 5.15 UTC, its centre was approximately 100 km east-southeast of…

OVERVIEW More people have died while attempting to migrate to an international destination in 2023 than in any year recorded since IOM’s Missing Migrant Project (MMP) began documenting incidents in 2014. In the Asia-Pacific region1, the total…

Introduction This situation report provides an update on the ongoing monsoon rain conditions in various parts of Pakistan, highlighting the predicted impacts, damages, and relief efforts carried out by the government and humanitarian organizations. Further updates will…

GENEVA – A group of independent experts* today expressed grave concern regarding a reported upsurge in discrimination and violence against Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan, including extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests and detentions, attacks on places of worship…

“I felt as if I was on the brink of death. I had no idea what was happening to me,” recalls Muhammad Ahsan, sitting anxiously outside the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hepatitis C facility in Machar…