Category: Human Rights

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…

At least 30 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank in the week…

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Wednesday described antisemitism as an ongoing plague…

The human rights situation in Nicaragua has “seriously deteriorated” over the past year, following arbitrary…

Six United Nations personnel who’ve been held on “spurious” accusations in Yemen for three months…

The UN human rights office, OHCHR, reiterated deep concerns on Tuesday over the continuing “climate…

When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King, visited UN Headquarters…

The United Nations will continue engaging with all stakeholders in Afghanistan, advocating for human rights…

The devastating lack of adequate care for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in Sudan,…

A UN independent human rights expert on Friday condemned recent terrorist attacks in Burkina Faso,…

The UN Secretary-General has called for global action to “vanquish racism and discrimination” towards people…

A new morality law enacted by the Taliban in Afghanistan, cements policies that “completely erase”…

China still has “many problematic laws and policies” regarding the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region two…

Seven years since the forced mass displacement of Rohingya and other communities from Myanmar’s Rakhine State, the…

The United Kingdom must take action to curb racist hate speech and xenophobic rhetoric, a…

The adoption of new transitional justice legislation in Nepal marks an important step in the nation’s…

The first food supplies destined for desperate communities in Sudan’s Darfur region have crossed the…

The UN Secretary-General has paid tribute to victims and survivors of terrorism just ahead of…