Iraqi lawmakers’ proposal to amend the country’s family law and grant religious courts the authority to legalize marriages for underage girls is being pushed by the country’s Shiite parliamentary ...

The recently held High-Level Advocacy Workshop, organized by the Forum for Higher Education Institutions in the Amhara Region, shed light on the dire humanitarian crisis unfolding in the region due to ...

Violence against girls and women is truly a global problem, as a few statistics from the UN demonstrate. One in four ...

The United Nations' mission to Afghanistan said on Tuesday (Nov 26) the ruling Taliban had arbitrarily detained journalists ...

Judges of the International Court of Justice met with climate change scientists in anticipation of its advisory opinion on ...

Gaps in realising human rights could stop AIDS being ended as a public health threat by 2030, UNAIDS has warned in a report ...

Unique among United Nations agencies, UNRWA, the Palestine Refugee Agency, is mandated by the United Nations’ Member States to provide public-like services directly, including education for more than ...

Ahead of World AIDS Day (1 December), a new report by UNAIDS shows that the world can meet the agreed goal of ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030 – but only if leaders protect the human ...

Established in March 2006 by the UN General Assembly in resolution 60/251, the UPR is designed to prompt, support, and expand ...

Support for transitional justice processes critical to building sustainable peace, United Nations (UN) Experts say after Ethiopia mission ...

The UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan has called on the African Union (AU) and the international community to ...