Category: Culture And Education

The UN human rights office, OHCHR, has condemned an Israeli raid on the Union of…

The President of the UN General Assembly called on Tuesday for greater action to uphold…

Children and adolescents living with HIV continue to be left behind in access to early…

Myanmar’s planned late-December elections are unfolding in what UN rights officials describe as an atmosphere…

The UN human rights office, OHCHR said on Friday that it was “appalled” by the…

Soaring inflation, fragile job markets and shrinking access to healthcare and education are pushing millions…

The humanitarian crisis in Sudan’s El Fasher remains dire as mass displacement accelerates and aid…

Cartoons have long been used to provoke thought, raise questions and challenge power, but for…

More than one in four children globally – around 610 million – live with mothers…

For over two years, tens of thousands of people have been killed in Gaza. The…

Authorities in Nigeria are being urged to investigate the wave of abductions in the West…

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, says major companies and fast-moving technologies…

Scolded for wanting to go to school as a girl and dismissed or ignored as…

When Salma* was just 15, she was forced to get married, even though she wanted…

A domestic war crimes court in Bangladesh sentenced former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former…

Just how many people are still trapped in the Sudanese city of El Fasher? That’s…

Fifty-two prisoners have died in Haiti’s overcrowded prisons between July and September this year in…

Warnings of worsening humanitarian conditions in Sudan continue, despite reports of a ceasefire deal brokered by international mediators on…

Independent UN human rights investigators have heard first-hand accounts of torture, unlawful detention and the…

Nearly 100 people have been abducted or disappeared in Syria since January, the UN human…

The UN Special Adviser on genocide prevention has raised concerns over widespread allegations of war…

Civil society networks and private sector leaders crossed paths in the buzzing corridors of the…

UN agencies are stepping up relief operations to help civilians fleeing the escalating violence in…

The push to put social justice at the heart of global policymaking took centre stage…

As wearable devices begin to tap into our mental states, UN experts warn that without…

UN teams rushed to northern Afghanistan on Monday after a powerful 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck…

The UN is calling for restraint in Tanzania, amid deadly protests following the 29 October…

The Independent UN Fact-Finding Mission investigating alleged rights abuses in Iran says there has been…

Airstrikes carried out by the United States against alleged drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean…

Governments moving to restore ties with the Taliban risk legitimising oppression and deepening Afghanistan’s crisis,…

Russian armed forces conducted another large-scale combined attack across Ukraine in the early hours of…

Myanmar stands at a crossroads between impunity and humanitarian crisis, as escalating military airstrikes, widespread…

South Sudan faces a renewed slide into full-scale conflict unless urgent international action is taken,…

The chair of an independent commission investigating alleged human rights abuses in the Occupied Palestinian…

Russia’s abuse of national security and public safety laws to silence opposition to the war…

Sharp declines in global aid are undermining decades of human rights and development progress, the…

Drones operated by Russian forces have repeatedly attacked Ukrainian civilians, causing deaths, injuries and large-scale…

Grave atrocities, including summary executions are reportedly being carried out in the Darfuri regional capital…

The UN human rights office (OHCHR) in the Occupied Palestinian Territory has warned of an…

Nearly 70,000 women in Afghanistan tune in to Radio Femme – an all-female-run online and…

Bangladesh has begun legal proceedings against security officials accused of sanctioning enforced disappearances and torture…