As millions of Filipinos desperately search for sustenance and shelter in the devastation left by Typhoon Haiyan, many may be comforted by the knowledge that help is surely on the way from family members working abroad. The Philippines’ biggest export has long been its workers, with at least 10% of the country’s approximately 100 million […]

People covered their faces with towels and scarves against the stench of death Monday, clogging the typhoon-ravaged roads of the hardest hit part of the Philippines in a traffic jam of desperation. Headed into one center of devastation were Filipinos frantic to find loved ones, or help, or both; fleeing in the other direction were […]

”We are so very hungry and thirsty” one survivor told the BBC’s Jon Donnison in Tacloban The head of the Red Cross in the Philippines has described the devastation caused by Typhoon Haiyan as “absolute bedlam”. Up to 10,000 people are believed to have died in Tacloban city and hundreds elsewhere. Hundreds of thousands of […]

MANILA — As many as 10,000 people are feared dead in one city alone after Super Typhoon Haiyan — one of the most powerful storms ever recorded — slammed into the central islands of the Philippines, officials said. Regional police chief Elmer Soria said he was briefed by Leyte provincial Gov. Dominic Petilla late Saturday […]

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Rescuers in the central Philippines counted at least 100 dead and many more injured Saturday a day after one of the most powerful typhoons on record ripped through the region, wiping away buildings and leveling seaside homes in massive storm surges, then headed for Vietnam. With communications and roads still cut […]

GENEVA, Nov.  6 (UNOG Statement) — United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Wednesday expressed serious alarm at the sentencing to death in Bangladesh of 152 paramilitary personnel after mass trials that fell far short of international human rights standards. The officers of the Bangladesh Border Guards (previously known as the Bangladesh […]