Category: Culture And Education

The UN Special Rapporteur on cultural rights called on Thursday for States to act now…

Sudan’s humanitarian crisis continues to deepen, with ongoing fighting between rival militaries displacing millions.  Read…

For more than half a year, the family of award-winning Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna have…

The UN’s top human rights official on Tuesday urged an immediate halt to hostilities in…

No conflict in recent times has threatened freedom of expression so far beyond its borders…

All States and international organizations, including the United Nations, have obligations under international law to…

A staggering 97 percent of Sudan’s internally displaced along with civilians who’ve remained, are facing…

Nearly six and a half million people in southern Africa are starving because of an…

Human rights abuses have increased in the past year in Venezuela, a report by the…

With no let-up to the ongoing Israel-Lebanon conflict, the UN human rights office on Tuesday…

UN peacekeepers came under fire for the second day in a row in Lebanon on Friday,…

The United Nations Human Rights Council on Thursday extended the mandate of the independent expert…

Violence against children remains a pervasive global issue, with up to a billion children vulnerable…

In Lebanon, health workers and medical facilities have continued to be hit and killed by…

The prospect of all-out war in Lebanon appeared undiminished on Wednesday as the head of…

As Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine approaches its 1,000-day mark, the UN’s top human rights…

UN humanitarians in Lebanon on Tuesday described the massive challenge of trying to reach some…

Universities must respect peaceful activism and revise repressive policies targeting the pro-Palestinian solidarity movement on…

The UN Human Rights Council held a dialogue on Friday to examine the nuclear testing…

Some Palestinian orphans in Gaza have gotten a glimmer of hope as the tragedies triggered…

Russian shelling has hit another apartment block in Ukraine’s second city of Kharkiv, UN aid…

The UN-designated human rights expert on Sudan has called for the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF)…

Hours after Iran fired a reported 200 missiles at Israel in response to Israeli military…

Africans and people of African descent who have encountered human rights violations by law enforcement…

The UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine condemned a deadly Russian strike in Kherson on Tuesday…

UN humanitarians launched a $426 million appeal for Lebanon on Tuesday to support one million…

Women and girls in the midst of the brutal conflict between rival militaries in Sudan…

At least 3,661 people have been killed in Haiti since January due to gang violence,…

With war raging in Sudan and no end in sight to the catastrophic hunger crisis…

Russian authorities are using torture “with a sense of impunity” in the ongoing war in…

At least one in seven youngsters has a mental disorder. That’s the warning from the…

The fear and anxiety caused by the ongoing war in Gaza is causing a range…

Repeated Russian attacks on energy infrastructure and power cuts in Ukraine will likely uproot an…

Concerns for women and the overall state of humanitarian rights in Afghanistan are growing following…

The UN independent human rights expert on protection from torture on Tuesday reiterated the urgent…

The UN human rights office, OHCHR, issued its latest report on Myanmar on Tuesday, detailing…

Violence used against opponents of the Venezuelan authorities has reached unprecedented levels, a top independent…

While progress has been made worldwide on gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment, critical…

Ensuring that world leaders consider the impact their actions will have on the billions yet…

The Iranian Government has intensified its efforts to suppress the fundamental rights of women and…

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is stepping up lifesaving support to the Congolese Government to protect…

Ongoing violence in Haiti is putting the education of over 100,000 displaced children in the…

Warfare in Myanmar has escalated into systematic atrocities, including attacks targeting civilians, torture and sexual…

Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in the number of attacks on students, teachers…

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights delivered his annual global update on Monday, urging…

Top human rights investigators into Sudan’s brutal war called on Friday for a country-wide arms…