There are serious and prolonged drinking water and sanitation problems for thousands of First Nations people living on reserves, says Human Rights Watch.
Climate change could significantly modify vector-borne diseases and their effect on human populations, making epidemics more difficult to predict and control, says the IFRC.
The High Commissioner says she is deeply shocked that children are forced to sleep on the floor in overcrowded facilities, without access to adequate healthcare or food, and with poor sanitation conditions.
The Higher Defence council, a military body, has declared that all 'semi-permanent structures' built by Syrian refugees using materials other than timber and plastic sheeting in informal camps must be deconstructed.
The European Commission has allocated an additional €20 million in emergency aid to Afghanistan as the humanitarian situation has worsened since the beginning of 2018.
Refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo who found refuge in Northern Angola after an outbreak of violence in the Kasai region, are afraid to return home, even as life in the refugee settlements becomes more difficult due to funding challenges, says The Lutheran World Federation in Angola.
UN human rights experts have urged Brazil to reconsider its economic austerity programme and put the human rights of its population at the centre of its economic policies.
Médecins Sans Frontières is highly concerned about the fate of around 800 migrants and refugees held in a dangerously overcrowded detention centre in the port city of Zuwara, Libya.