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Human rights groups file the petition amid an ongoing crackdown on undocumented foreigners in the country. Pakistan’s Supreme Court has opened a hearing on a petition filed by human rights groups to stop the deportations of Afghans who were born in Pakistan and those who would be at risk if …

“This aid barely registers against the huge needs of 1.7 million displaced people,” a statement from the UN Secretary-General’s office said on Monday, highlighting his call for a full humanitarian ceasefire. “The humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza is getting worse by the day.” And as the UN emergency relief coordination office, …

Food aid is due to stop in January in a country taking in hundreds of thousands of refugees from Sudan’s war. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) says food aid to 1.4 million people in Chad, including newly arrived refugees fleeing violence in Sudan’s Darfur region, will end in …

OHCHR is urging the authorities to halt deportations, which are set to begin on 1 November, Spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani told journalists in Geneva. Currently, more than two million undocumented Afghans are living in Pakistan, at least 600,000 of whom arrived after the Taliban returned to power in August 2021. ‘Grave …

JERUSALEM: The UN agency for Palestinian refugees warned it would be forced to stop working across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday unless there were urgent fuel deliveries to the war-torn territory.“If we do not get fuel urgently, we will be forced to halt our operations in the Gaza Strip as …

UAW President Fain praises breakthrough, with implications for labour arrangements undergirding green transition. The United Auto Workers (UAW) union has said that it will not further expand its strike after winning a major breakthrough, bringing electric vehicle battery plants into the union’s national contract. In a video appearance on Friday, …

Record numbers have crossed the Darien Gap, a strip of jungle between Panama and Colombia once seen as impassable. The Central American nation of Panama has announced new measures to crack down on migrants and asylum seekers entering the country, as a record number of people attempt to cross the inhospitable …