EU Wants to Stop Illegal Migration, Improve Situation on Ground - Merkel

The European Union is going to stop or at least to reduce illegal migration and wants to fight the roots of the problem, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday after an informal meeting of EU leaders in Bratislava.

UN under fire for removing Saudi-led coalition from blacklist : Damaging the world body's credibility

The United Nations was forced to defend its decision to remove the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen from a blacklist of child rights violators after rights groups expressed dismay.

UN chief shocked at grave violence against children in conflict countries

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday expressed shock at the scale of grave violations against children in such countries as Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen.

1.5 mln people in E. Ukraine face hunger (UN)

About 1.5 million people living in the conflict-affected areas in eastern Ukraine are facing hunger, among which 300,000 are experiencing severe food shortages, the United Nations food relief agency said here Tuesday.

Record 1.25 mln migrants in EU in 2015

A record 1.25 million asylum seekers arrived in the European Union in 2015, more than double the figure from the previous year, official data showed on Friday as EU leaders prepared for a crucial summit with Turkey to try to stem the flow of refugees.

Palestinians want to join world to end conflict with Israel

The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Amman Sunday and told him the Palestinian leadership is working with the international community to hold an international peace conference to find a 5+1 formula and end the conflict with Israel.

Why are children fighting in conflicts? (video Al Jazeera)

The people of South Sudan have not had it easy since they won independence four years ago.

Desperate farm families in eastern Ukraine forced into ‘difficult choices’ to survive – (UN agency)

UN, 7 December 2015 – The absence of financial, physical, social and human resources has left some 700,000 farm households extremely vulnerable in conflict-torn eastern Ukraine, the results of a United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) household survey revealed today, and also warned of food insecurity among those families due to “skyrocketing” commodity prices.

Refugees no threat to Europe (Muslim leader)

It is unacceptable to regard refugees as a threat to Europe, said Bosnia's Muslim leader Husein Kavazovic on Friday.

Warning against ‘toxic public debates,’ UN official urges global compact on refugee and asylum matters

UN,  8 October 2015 – The top protection expert in the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today warned of a growing risk to people fleeing conflict and persecution and called for “an all-out effort to ensure that protection, and in particular the institution of asylum, remains life-saving, non-political, and fundamentally humanitarian.”

Over a million Africans displaced in one year (UN body)

Over one million Africans, including South Sudanese, Burundians and Libyans have fled their countries in the last 12 months, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has said.

German interior minister calls for limits on migrants to EU

Germany's interior minister on Saturday said the European Union in the future should take in a finite number of migrants while sending the rest back to a safe country in their home regions.

About 90% of Slovak Town Residents Against Hosting Refugees in Locality (local referendum)

More than 96 percent of residents of the town Gabchikovo in southwestern Slovakia voted against the deployment of the undocumented migrants in their town on the local referendum, local media reported Sunday.

UN chief urges countries to give support to the most vulnerable on World Population Day

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Saturday urged countries to give support to the most vulnerable so that they help build sustainable prosperity for generations to come.

Pope urges Bosnian reconciliation

Pope Francis called for the “building of new bridges” as he visited the Bosnian capital on Saturday.

Twenty years after the end of the wars that saw around 100,000 people killed, the 78-year-old pontiff was greeted by crowds of thousands of well-wishers in Sarajevo.