UN rights expert calls for end to Russia’s crackdown on lawyers
Mariana Katzarova, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Russian Federation, urged Russian authorities to release lawyers Vadim Kobzev, Alexei Liptser...
Tens of millions risk starvation as funding cuts deepen crises in DR Congo: WHO,...
The United Nations agency has received only $1.57 billion of the $21.1 billion required to sustain its operations this year, with donations slashed by...
Global campaign reveals human rights ‘are the basis of our existence’
UN News asked Astrid Van Genderen Stort, OHCHR chief of external engagement and partnerships, about hers. “My everyday essentials are my family, a sense...
Two mass graves of migrants uncovered in Libya
Nineteen bodies were discovered in Jakharrah, around 400 km south of the coastal city of Benghazi, while at least 30 more were found in...
Rights experts urge United Kingdom to curb hate speech
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racism (CERD) voiced concern over persistent hate crimes, hate speech and xenophobic incidents on various platforms, including...
Gaza: Hospitals rationing critical supplies, ambulances stalling
What little fuel remains is powering essential operations, but it is running out fast, and there are virtually no additional accessible stocks left, UN...
Gaza: UN relief chief demands ‘answers and justice’ following killings of first responders
The clearly identified humanitarian workers from the Palestine Red Crescent Society, Palestinian Civil Defence and the UN had been despatched to collect injured people...
Haiti crisis could impact regional and global stability
As heavily armed gangs expand their control and public institutions are facing intense pressure, delivering humanitarian aid on the ground is becoming harder as...
Unprecedented Afghan returns are ‘a test of our collective humanity’
Roza Otunbayeva, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, made the appeal during a visit to the Islam Qala border crossing with Iran on Tuesday...
China: UN rights office reiterates need to review national security framework
The 31 August 2022 report stated that violations had taken place in the context of the Government’s assertion that it was targeting terrorists among...
Ukrainians tortured, raped, executed by Russian captors, Human Rights Council hears
The Council – the UN’s foremost human rights forum – also heard updates on allegations of ongoing abuses in Belarus, North Korea and Myanmar.According...
World News in Brief: Global investment plunges, hurricane season in Haiti, rising cholera and...
Their latest data shows that the outlook for international investment this year “is negative”, a sharp course correction from January, when “modest” growth seemed...
US: Rights experts urge Senate to reject bill sanctioning the International Criminal Court
The ICC issued arrest warrants in November for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes and...
Over 180 migrants dead or missing in latest tragedy off Yemen, UN agency reports
Some 260 people were abroad the vessel that had departed from Bossaso, in northeast Somalia, in the early hours of Sunday, bound for Yemen,...
Russian strikes on Ukraine’s energy system risks nuclear disaster: rights experts
Their warning comes amid growing international concern about the vulnerability of Ukraine’s nuclear facilities which rely on a stable power grid to maintain critical...
Strikes in Gaza, Lebanon, as aid teams support ‘overwhelmed’ burns centre
Beit Lahiya town in northern Gaza and Nuseirat refugee camp in the centre of the enclave were the focus of dawn strikes, local media...
UN warns of ‘catastrophic hunger’ in Gaza as Israel announces humanitarian pauses
But as starvation tightens its grip and “children are dying before our eyes,” UN officials and aid workers warn that the measures fall far...
Downpours stymy aid teams following deadly landslide in war-torn Sudan
The death toll has not yet been verified as ongoing downpours and rugged terrain are making it extremely difficult to reach the impacted communities,...
Children at risk as winter looms amid renewed strikes in Ukraine
Dozens of civilian casualties were reported over the weekend and into Monday, with children among the injured, according to UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric.The hardest-hit...
Iran: Human rights investigators alarmed by ‘surge in repression’ and spike in executions following...
Briefing at UN Headquarters in New York – the first time the mission has presented findings to the General Assembly – chairperson Sara Hossain...
New UN report details Nicaragua’s ongoing human rights crisis
Human rights violations in Nicaragua have been ongoing since 2018 when university students and other civil society activists began protesting a new Social Security...
Lebanon escalation: Have we learned nothing from Gaza, UN humanitarians ask
Speaking from Beirut in the aftermath of Lebanon’s “worst day in 18 years”, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) deputy representative in the country, Ettie...
Gaza’s babies ‘scarred by war before first breath’ by malnutrition
Speaking from the shattered enclave, UNICEF Communication Manager Tess Ingram said that at least 165 children are reported to have died “painful, preventable deaths”...
Gaza City lifelines collapsing, UN aid agency warns
The warning comes as the head of UN Palestine refugee agency UNRWA renewed his call for foreign journalists to be allowed into the Gaza...
