The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights warned Israel on Monday not to proceed along the “dangerous path” of annexing a swathe of occupied Palestinian territory, urging the Government to... read more →
More than $31 billion is needed over the next 12 months to develop medicines that will be effective against COVID-19 and make them available to all people, the World Health... read more →
Millions of children in the heart of the world’s worst humanitarian disaster could be pushed to the brink of starvation, due to huge shortfalls in humanitarian aid funding amid the... read more →
Torture is an “egregious abuse of human rights”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Friday, the International Day in Support of the Victims of Torture. Although international law “unequivocally prohibits torture... read more →
The UN Charter “brought rules and hope to a world in ruins”, Secretary-General António Guterres told a virtual ceremony on Friday, commemorating 75 years since the Organization’s foundational text was signed. Adopted... read more →
The World Health Organization (WHO) has delivered supplies to the National Polio Laboratory of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The laboratory’s main function is to isolate, identify, and perform genomic... read more →
The expectations and views of each of the world’s regional groups and its members “will be equally important and valuable to me”, the newly elected president of what will be... read more →
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has reminded countries of their fundamental obligation to protect the nearly 80 million people worldwide forced to flee their homes due to conflict, persecution, and other... read more →
The UN’s top rights official, Michelle Bachelet, is to spearhead efforts to address systemic racism against people of African descent by law enforcement agencies, the Human Rights Council decided on Friday. The... read more →
Each year, half of the world’s children – around one billion youngsters – are affected by physical, sexual, or psychological violence because countries fail to follow established strategies to protect... read more →