UN : Civilians paying the highest price in Sudan war, says probe (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Penang)
Rival forces in Sudan are deliberately targeting the devastated nation's civilian population, committing atrocities, including war crimes on a large scale, an independent human rights probe has found.

UN : Urgent need for a "genuine ceasefire" in the DRC, says rights chief (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Penang)
"Few places on Earth face a crisis as severe and urgent as the Democratic Republic of the Congo," said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr. Volker Turk, in presenting his report on the human rights situation in the DRC to the UN Human Rights Council on 9 September.

UN : Aid cuts threatening progress in refugee education, warns UNHCR (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Penang)
Cuts to humanitarian and development aid are putting recent hard-won progress in refugee education at risk, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has warned.