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Since the establishment of the United Nations in 1945, nongovernmental organizations have continually had active communication and participation in UN's programmes and events such as the...

On 15 October 2016, the Prevention of Domestic Violence and Life Skills Education Project, in accordance with the trilateral agreement signed between the ODVV, UNHCR and BAFIA.

Addressing the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations Headquarters, Secretary-General António Guterres spotlighted several threats – including the nuclear peril, climate change,...

The United Nations and its humanitarian partners in Iraq are scrambling to get emergency sites ready amidst a mass exodus from West Mosul, with nearly 700,000 civilians still living in the city...

Bahraini authorities should immediately release the human rights activist Nabeel Rajab, Human Rights Watch said. Rajab’s trial was scheduled to resume on December 15, 2016, on charges that...

One person out of every 35 trying to cross the inland sea between northern Africa and Italy in 2017 has died out in the deep waters of the Mediterranean, the United Nations refugee agency reported...

Even as schools and markets begin to re-open in war-torn eastern Mosul, whole neighbourhoods of the western part of the Iraqi city have been destroyed and nearly a quarter of a million people have...

Voicing concern over the reactivation of charges – some of which date back a number of years – against a Palestinian human rights defender, two independent United Nations experts have called on...

Noting “credible” reports that Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da'esh) fighters killed more than 231 civilians, including women and children, attempting to flee western Mosul over the...

The United Nations human rights office expressed great concern about the safety of civilians being evacuated in Syria, saying a weekend attack on a convoy near Aleppo likely amounts to a war crime...

The gender pay gap is one of the most controversial topics related to women and work.

Yemen is facing the world's largest cholera outbreak, the United Nations health agency today warned, with 5,000 Yemenis falling sick every day – the majority of them children and the elderly.

The public flogging of jailed blogger Raif Badawi is now “sure” to resume after Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court upheld his sentence at the weekend, his wife has told The Independent.

‘In Europe there are a lot of voices challenging very fundamentals of human rights’

Tehran (ISNA)- Adjunct Associate Professor of University of South Australia stressed Desertification is a phenomenon that is happening all over Iran because it is located in the semi-arid and arid...

In many areas, Palestinians received only three hours of electricity at a time, punctuated by 12-hour blackouts.

According to the tripartite agreement between the ODVV, UNHCR and BAFIA the Prevention of Domestic Violence and Life Skills Education Project began on in May 2017 and is due to finish in September.

Protecting cultural diversity is vital for peacebuilding in the Middle East, the head of the United Nations cultural agency said, pledging solidarity with the victims of ethnic and religious...

The representatives of the ODVV participated in the 6th Minorities Session in the framework of 6 items, which was eld on 26-27 November 2013 in the European Headquarters of the United Nations in...

Unhealthy environments are responsible for one-quarter of young child deaths, according to two new reports from the United Nations health agency, which reviewed the threats from pollutants such as...