As Bangladesh tries to rebuild a robust democracy following the student-led uprising that ousted PM Sheikh Hasina, a clearer ...

GENEVA (11 April 2025) – Warring parties in Sudan are overseeing a wholesale assault on human rights amid global inaction, with deeply catastrophic consequences for civilians, said UN High ...

Large-scale attacks by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on the Zamzam and Abu Shouk camps for internally displaced people, on El Fasher town, and on the Um Kadada locality have made starkly clear the ...

Myanmar was already facing political, humanitarian, human rights and economic crisis before the earthquake struck. The miliary seized power from the democratically elected government in February 2021 ...

Organised by the UN human rights office, the week-long session “Africa and people of African descent: United for reparatory justice in the age of Artificial Intelligence,” will echo global calls for ...

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk calls on the Peruvian Government to respect its obligations under international law and to provide and protect an enabling environment in which civil society can play ...

The consensus on a draft pandemic agreement is an important achievement in multilateral cooperation and a vital step toward ensuring a more equitable, just and rights-based global health response to ...

Soldiers from Sudan's national army dragged a wounded ex-combatant through the streets in Umbdada, Omdurman, late last month while another soldier filmed the incident. The soldiers then shot the man ...

His death brings the total number of fatalities to 21, including nine children. Oleksandr Vilkul, head of the Kryvyi Rih ...

Between budget cuts that are hobbling civil society watchdogs and federal agencies alike and the appointment of a Uyghur genocide denier in the State Department, questions abound about the United ...

Israeli military operations in Lebanon have continued to claim civilian lives and destroy vital infrastructure, the UN human ...