Category: Human Rights

The UN on Friday warned of further deterioration in the human rights situation in South…

Long-awaited food supplies have been looted in Gaza overnight while being transported to desperate communities…

Southeast Asian nations should do more to protect people from being reeled into scam farms,…

UN aid workers said on Wednesday that they are still waiting for permission from Israel…

When human rights activist Eunju Kim was 11, her mother and older sister left, telling…

Repeated drone strikes over the past two weeks in Port Sudan have damaged key infrastructure…

The head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), called on Monday for…

The military authorities in Mali have dissolved all political parties and repealed laws protecting political…

The UN human rights office (OHCHR) called on Friday for an end to senseless killings…

Two families – one still waiting for answers 75 years after a father was taken…

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has once again called for a global ban on lethal autonomous…

The UN Human Rights High Commissioner Volker Türk has voiced concern over the recent deportation…

The UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) together with the African Union mission there,…

The UN Human Rights Committee has found that Guatemala did not follow through on promises…

More than a month after two powerful earthquakes devastated Myanmar, the country is spiralling deeper…

Countries must do everything to ensure that free and independent news reporting can thrive, the…

“After losing my leg in the war, I returned to photojournalism not just for work,…

More than 500 civilians have been killed in North Darfur state, Sudan, over the past…

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have followed through on decrees aimed at erasing women from public life…

Marked by mass killings, abductions, and sexual violence, the first quarter of 2025, the human…

Grim details continued to emerge on Thursday in the aftermath of a wave of Russian…

The ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues to have devastating…

Too many Indigenous people are still being excluded from decisions that directly affect their lands,…

Two centuries to the day after France imposed a crippling debt on Haiti in exchange…

The number of civilians in South Sudan harmed by conventional parties to the conflict and…

The calls for reparatory justice can no longer be ignored, speakers at the fourth session…

Israeli military operations in Lebanon have continued to claim civilian lives and destroy vital infrastructure,…

The fourth session of the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent opened on…

As Sudan’s devastating war enters its third year, UN rights investigators are warning that its…

Military operations continue in Myanmar despite ceasefires declared after the recent earthquake that killed more…

More than three years on from the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian civilians continue…

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called on Sunday for an investigation into the…

The Artificial Intelligence (AI) race needs to slow down and IT firms should instead be…

Amid rising concerns over antisemitism worldwide, the UN on Friday announced the roll out of…

Amid reports of escalating settler violence in the West Bank, the UN rights office, OHCHR,…

Myanmar’s military has continued to launch airstrikes and other attacks against opposition forces in the…

The recent killings of 15 medical personnel and humanitarian aid workers in Gaza raise further…

The fight for Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, likely involved widespread summary executions of civilians following its…

The “world is failing” people living with disabilities, UN deputy chief Amina Mohammed has told…

2024 saw the highest increase in missing persons in at least two decades, with 56,559…

Civilians continue to bear the brunt of the violence in the Democratic Republic of the…

The UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan issued an alert on Thursday over…

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has again called for greater protection of civilians…

The UN human rights office (OHCHR) expressed major concern on Tuesday following the detention of…

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Tuesday condemned the recent attack on…

The transatlantic slave trade may have ended centuries ago but its legacy is ever present,…

Despite significant progress over the years, the fight against racism and racial discrimination remains as…

The United Nations commemorated the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on Friday,…

Classes cut short by air raid sirens have become a routine part of school life…

Respect for human rights is not only a moral obligation but a necessity for economic…