Climate change intensified the 10 deadliest extreme events of the past 20 years
A study warns that these events, which claimed more than 570,000 lives and included the heat waves of 2022 and 2023, were more severe and likely due to global warming
A study warns that these events, which claimed more than 570,000 lives and included the heat waves of 2022 and 2023, were more severe and likely due to global warming
A report concludes that, in 2022 and 2023, attacks against students and teachers increased by 20%, as did the military use of schools. The worst hit places were Palestine, Ukraine, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Myanmar
If all refugees, internally displaced persons, asylum seekers, and other people in need of international protection were brought together in one country, they would form the 12th largest in the world, with a population similar to that of Japan
Civilians displaced by the Southeast Asian country’s three-year civil war face a journey through jungles, mountains and rivers to flee the violence
The 14-year-old Rohingya girl sacrificed herself to save her family, embarking on a terrifying journey from Myanmar to a country she had never seen, to marry a man who rapes her nearly every night
A research by the Financial Transparency Coalition also accuses vessels from Russia, Spain, Thailand, Taiwan and South Korea of mistreatment of fishers
A member of the cabinet of what is considered to be the legitimate government of Myanmar – whose members are exiled and scattered around the world, as a result of the 2021 military coup – describes the partial pardon of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi as ‘pure propaganda’
The sentence given Sai Zaw Thaike appeared to be the most severe for any journalist detained since the military overthrew the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021
What’s happened — and continues to happen — in Haiti, Colombia and Mexico should awaken our collective conscience about the use of women’s and girls’ bodies as a weapon of war
The slow accounting of casualties since the storm struck Sunday has led to uncertainly about the actual extent of casualties and destruction
Myanmar took the brunt of Cyclone Mocha on Sunday, while Bangladesh was spared a feared catastrophe. The powerful cyclone left at least 21 people dead and hundreds of others missing
As night fell, the extent of the damage in Sittwe was not clear. Earlier in the day, high winds crumpled cell phone towers, cutting off communications in much of the area
The evacuation of nearly 500,000 people is expected to start Saturday in Bangladesh with more than 500 cyclone shelters ready to provide refuge to those moved from their homes
The military is increasingly using airstrikes to counter a widespread armed struggle against its rule, which began when it seized power from an elected government in 2021
The country has been in turmoil since the military’s February 2021 seizure of power prompted nationwide protests that security forces suppressed with deadly force