After a decade of promoting refugee causes around the world, Angelina Jolie herself has been promoted.

Syrian security forces are advancing on the rebel-held neighbourhood of Baba Amr in the city of Homs, an official says.

More than 5,000 people have died in the nine-month Syrian uprising, the UN’s human rights chief has said.

Fresh violence in Syria left 18 people dead today, most of them killed in a battle between security forces and anti-regime military defectors, activists said.

Syria has entered a state of civil war with more than 4,000 people dead and an increasing number of soldiers defecting from the army to fight President Bashar Assad’s regime, the UN’s top human rights official has said.

Artillery hit the residence of France’s ambassador to Ivory Coast for the second time in two days, the French embassy said, a possible show of defiance from the country’s strongman who has resisted international pressure to emerge from a bunker and cede power.

The UN has said that more than 100 bodies had been found in Ivory Coast in the past 24 hours, some of them burned alive.

RIOTING has killed several hundred people in the Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan, the Red Cross said yesterday, as new reports strengthened suspicions that the violence was deliberately ignited to undermine the interim government.

Several hundred people have been killed in rioting in Kyrgyzstan, the Red Cross said today, as new reports strengthened suspicions that the violence was deliberately ignited to undermine the Central Asian nation’s interim government.

Up to five million people could go hungry in Zimbabwe next year through a steady drop in food production coupled with the world’s highest rate of inflation, the UN warned today.

THE Government should do more to protect unaccompanied child asylum seekers, the outgoing representative of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Dublin has said.

THE UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson, has criticised the Irish Government for fighting attempts to provide rights for disabled people as it prepares to host the Special Olympics.

THE UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson has accused the United States of trying to scale back plans to save the world’s poorest people.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has criticised Israel for refusing to allow her to lead a fact-finding mission into the Jenin refugee camp.

The International Red Cross has dismissed President George W Bush's promise that Taliban fighters will be covered by the Geneva Convention.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has said prisoner of war status should be conferred on the suspected al-Qaida and Taliban members being held at a US naval base in Cuba.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights - Mary Robinson - has appealed to the Israeli government to exercise restraint.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees has blamed the British media and politicians for a spate of attacks against foreigners seeking asylum in the country.