World body’s rights chief Michele Bachelet says laws and policies promoting discrimination and exclusion against religious and ethnic minorities in Myanmar are deep-seated
In an impassioned speech, UN High Commissioner Michele Bachelet said millions are repressed by their leaders and split by hatred, xenophobia and discrimination
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov decries 'double standards' employed at the Council in favor of Western democratic values
The UN is appealing for $500 million to provide life-saving aid for 1.1 million civilians trapped in war zone
WHO says the coronavirus epidemic does not fit the criterion for a pandemic, but nations should prepare for possibility
The United Nations is launching a global Call to Action to advance and protect the human rights, under assault from war, discrimination, political abuse
Libya accuses the UN and international community of not holding rebel forces accountable for forced displacement, arbitrary detention, and extra-judicial killings
WHO is urgently appealing for $40 million to salvage its operation to bring the Ebola epidemic to an end in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
A first group of 76 Ethiopian refugees are back home after living in exile in Kakuma camp for up to 12 years
The window of opportunity for containing the outbreak in the Islamic Republic is still there, but it is narrowing, WHO chief warns
More than 700,000 people within the Sahel have fled attacks by militants and armed groups in the last 12 months, the UN refugee agency reports
Stepped-up military action by Syrian regime forces backed by Russia to regain control of the last rebel-held area in the country has displaced some 900,000 civilians since December
The relatively small number of cases and deaths outside China shows the window of opportunity to contain the coronavirus outbreak remains open
Experts say no country is doing enough to protect children’s health from climate change and exploitative commercial marketing
Witnesses say 40 armed men and members of the security and defense forces attacked the village, killing 23 people including children and pregnant women
United Nations says Libya's warring sides have resumed talks in Geneva
Mostly women and children are living in terror under plastic sheets in freezing temperatures while bombing is going on
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says this should be interpreted with great caution because trends can change as new populations are affected
Every year tens of thousands of migrants from the Horn of Africa cross the Gulf of Aden into conflict-ridden Yemen in hopes of finding work in Saudi Arabia
New data released by China finds more than 1,700 health workers have been infected with the disease and six have died
Load more
