human-rights

Authorities have a duty to ensure effective strategies are in place to protect refugees, migrants and asylum seekers in South Africa against xenophobic attacks

United Nations human rights experts are calling for strong, urgent action by States to ensure that people around the world can enjoy the human right to live in environments free from contamination.

Here you can't walk around freely. For the children it’s like living in a prison, because they are scared. In schools there are many gang members who harass and scare them.

As details on the destruction of and damage to Iraq’s rich and diverse cultural heritage emerge, the United Nations cultural agency has appealed to the international community to help protect and...

Wrapping up the opening of the intra-Syrian negotiations in Geneva on 23 February, United Nations Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura said he would hold bilateral meetings with participants on Friday...

Acute shortage of critical medicines, limited fuel for electricity and specialized medical staff such as intensive care doctors and nurses having left Yemen have put innocent lives in danger, the...

The United Nations refugee agency is focusing efforts on camp construction in and around the Iraqi city of Mosul, where renewed fighting could displace up to 250,000 people.

Almost 1.4 million children are at imminent risk of death due to severe acute malnutrition this year, as famine threatens in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, warned the United Nations...

Marking the tenth anniversary of an historic treaty to keep people from suffering enforced disappearance or secret detentions, the United Nations urged all Governments that have not done so to...

With military operations to retake western Mosul starting, United Nations humanitarian agencies in Iraq are rushing to prepare for the humanitarian impact of the fighting amid grave concerns that...

Highlighting the complex and interlinked challenges confronting the global community that also compound the suffering of the most vulnerable, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres...

Women compose ten percent of the Iranian administration, the vice president in women and family affairs, Shahindokht Molaverdi, said.

Bahrain is at a tipping point. The first two months of 2017 alone saw an alarming upsurge in arbitrary and abusive force by security forces as well as the first executions since the uprising in 2011

The United Nations condemned the deadly terrorist attack in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, for which the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da’esh) has claimed responsibility.

The top United Nations humanitarian official in Yemen said he was extremely saddened and appalled by the airstrikes that killed six women and a girl gathering for a funeral in a private residence...

Assurances have been given to humanitarians by the Syrian Government that obstacles to aid deliveries will be removed across the war-torn country, a senior United Nations adviser said.

The United Nations health agency has delivered medical supplies to parts of eastern Mosul, the Iraqi city liberated from the Islamic State (ISIL), where clinics are receiving an influx of people in...

IRNA - Deputy head of Iran’s Anti-Drug Headquarters announced here on Tuesday that the country is ready to cooperate with Kabul to replace cultivation of opium poppy with other agricultural...

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres expressed his support for the countries like Oman that are in the forefront of mediation efforts to resolve conflict.

A senior United Nations relief official has called on all parties to come to an agreement and allow immediate and unfettered humanitarian access to more than 60,000 civilians trapped in four Syrian...