The UN calls the situation in Yemen the worst humanitarian crisis in recent history. With 24 million people facing starvation and famine and at least 65,000 killed, the Saudi-led coalition continues to fuel the war.
Wax mannequins silently portray the horrific acts of torture that once were carried out at the Anti-Sabotage Joint Committee Prison that was run under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard, on a week-long visit to Turkey with a forensic and legal team, holds talks with Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in connection with the murder of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi.
The UN fears an exodus of people fleeing to Chad if the Nigerian army cannot contain fighting that has intensified in recent weeks.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees had referred 18-year-old Qunun to Australia for consideration for refugee settlement after declaring her a legitimate refugee.
Remaining 13 members of the UNSC vote in favour of the resolution drafted by Sweden and Kuwait that renews action first taken by the council in 2014 to allow aid deliveries into then rebel-held areas of Syria at four border crossings.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is joining the final day of peace talks being held in Sweden between representatives of the Yemeni government and Houthi rebel group.
Peace in Yemen might be a far cry but at no time has it come closer than it is right now over the past 6 years.
Mediators seek a de-escalation of violence in two flashpoint cities: rebel-held port city of Hudaida and Taiz during Yemen peace talks in Sweden.
The resolution would for the first time have condemned the Palestinian resistance group Hamas, which governs Gaza.
The talks mark the first attempt in two years to broker an end to the Yemen conflict, which has killed at least 10,000 people since 2015 and triggered what the UN calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
A Houthi delegation arrived in Sweden for UN-sponsored Yemen peace talks for the first time since 2016.
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