Month: January 2022

Bachelet: Women’s participation forging peace worldwide, ‘vastly worse’ post pandemic

With COVID-19, the situation for women human rights defenders and the prospects for women’s full participation in building peace, has…

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Experts decry measures to ‘steadily erase’ Afghan women and girls from public life

Taliban leaders in Afghanistan are institutionalizing large scale and systematic gender-based discrimination and violence against women and girls, independent UN…

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Horrors of Hiroshima, a reminder nuclear weapons remain global threat

Despite the annihilation of two major Japanese cities in 1945, atomic bombs have not been relegated to the pages of…

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UK Borders Bill increases risks of discrimination, human rights violations

A new bill being debated by lawmakers in the United Kingdom increases the risk of discrimination and “serious human rights…

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UN official calls for enhanced environmental cooperation with Iran

UN Resident Coordinator in Iran, Stefan Priesner, has called for boosting cooperation with Iran in the field of environment. In…

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Eight Afghan students die in explosion outside school

The use of explosives that lie dormant, particularly in populated areas, is “a persistent and growing threat to children and…

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Preserve right of asylum, UN refugee agency urges EU Council presidencies

Amid record global displacement, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, on Monday urged European countries to prioritize the better protection of…

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Rights experts condemn ‘unrelenting human rights violations’ at Guantánamo Bay

A group of independent human rights experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council has condemned the continued operation of…

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‘Keep speaking out’, UN chief urges in message to World Youth Forum

Although everyone has been deeply affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, the impact on young people has been “especially heartbreaking”, UN…

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55 journalists killed in 2021, impunity ‘alarmingly widespread’ – UNESCO

Fifty-five journalists and media professionals were killed last year, latest UN data showed on Thursday, with nearly nine in 10 killings since 2006 still unresolved. …

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