Human Rights

“The playing field is still far from level,” Mr. Türk said.  In the past few years, topflight women’s sporting competitions have achieved increased global...

Juliette Touma, the director of communications for the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, has visited Gaza several times during and before the war...

The violence erupted two days after a Druze merchant was abducted on the highway to Damascus.The incident marks the latest episode of sectarian bloodshed...

Threatened or actual tariff increases are largely focused on taxing imports into the United States and will make the products made by factories outside...

Left vulnerable, communities then formed self-defence groups and Haitian security forces reinforced their operations and made small gains only to be rebuffed again by...

The agency is calling for calm and cooperation to provide a dignified path forward for millions of displaced Afghans.More than 1.6 million Afghans have...

They’re calling for the decision to be reversed, warning it could undermine the wider international human rights system.The sanctions were announced by US Secretary...

She returns, over and over, to a single image: that of a ten-year-old girl – standing on the edge of adolescence, her future uncertain,...

Deputy Prosecutor Nazhat Shameem Khan told ambassadors in the UN Security Council that the ICC has “reasonable grounds to believe” that both war crimes...

Office spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani cited Kenyan police reports of at least 11 deaths, 52 injured police officers, and 567 arrests. The Kenya National Commission...

“I have survived a genocide,” said Munira Subašić, whose youngest son – her favourite – and 21 other family members were murdered in the...

Digital technologies have the potential to drive progress and strengthen rights, including connecting people, improving access to health and education, and much more.But the...