When Maria Figueroa saw fleeing Venezuelans passing by her home in Colombia on foot, she knew she had to do something.
Humanitarian Crises
![A woman checks batteries at the Abs solar microgrid station [Photo courtesy of SDF YEMEN]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/yemen-3.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
A women-run solar station near the front line in Abs is empowering its owners and improving life in their community.
![The report names 10 senior Syrian and Russian civilian and military officials who could be implicated in the violations [File: Aaref Watad/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/d98a92539493486f92a54e995951aa4d_8.jpeg?resize=570%2C380)
The watchdog says the targeting of civilians by the Syria-Russia alliance may amount to crimes...
The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize highlights an agency working at the intersection of war and hunger.
![While the Trump administration insists that sanctions do not interfere with the flow of humanitarian goods, critics in Iran and outside of it are pushing back on Washington's narrative [File: Ali Mohammadi/Bloomberg]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/360288199-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Critics say latest US sanctions will further hobble Iran’s ability to buy food and medicine as it battles pandemic.
![A migrant stands amid rubble in the burned camp of Moria on the island of Lesbos after a major fire broke out, on September 10, 2020. - Greek authorities on September 10 were racing to shelter thousands of asylum seekers left homeless on Lesbos after the island's main migrant camp was gutted by back-to-back fires, which destroyed the official part of the camp housing 4,000 people. Another 8,000 lived in tents and makeshift shacks around the perimeter and many were badly damaged [Photo by Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/000_8PN27W.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
The Take hears from asylum seekers and locals on the Greek island of Lesbos about the latest round of displacement.
![Rohingya refugees gather near the fence at the 'no man's land' zone in Maungdaw district in Myanmar's Rakhine State in 2018 [File: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/h_56087290-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Report says 130,000 Rohingya live under ‘squalid, abusive’ conditions; calls for an end to their ‘abitrary detention’.
The UN’s relief chief says coronavirus has added 100 million people to those in need of humanitarian relief worldwide.
![Conflict and poverty are exacerbating child malnutrition in Yemen [File: Khaled Abdullah/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/ba231eb6ff9c46299871113241adc6db_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
World Food Programme chief warns famine possible in up to three dozen countries, decries situation in Yemen and DRC.
![Earlier this month, the Riyadh Criminal Court commuted death sentences and handed down prison terms of up to 20 years to the convicts [File: Ozan Kose/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/fb872a1debb042debffc8220dacec01e_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
EU member states urged to impose arms embargo over Khashoggi’s killing and the war in Yemen.
![Waves break ashore near the Gulf State Park pier as the outer bands of Hurricane Sally come ashore [Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/ddd17375bec542a5ac200868ba8c3b30_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Category 2 storm makes landfall, pushing a surge of ocean water onto the coast and dumping torrential rain.
![More than 560 people are feared to have drowned in the Mediterranean this year, according to the IOM's Missing Migrants Project [Faras Ghani/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/26cd7ac4d3bd49a09469162ec2cd51e2_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
UN migration agency says Libyan coastguard retrieved two bodies, and survivors say 22 others are missing.
The dead include two children and a woman; Greek coastguard says it is unclear whether anyone is still missing.
![A father gives water to his malnourished daughter at a therapeutic feeding centre in a hospital in Hodeidah, Yemen [File: Hani Mohammed/AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/16d265a6bf1a4c68af1c74b2a5e44161_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
UN calls Yemen the world’s worst humanitarian crisis with 80 percent of the population of 30 million in need of aid.