Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and mental health conditions are responsible for more than 43 million deaths annually. It is critical that the upcoming United Nations general assembly high level ...

Next week, the United Nations Human Rights Council will vote on renewing the mandate of the independent expert on protection ...

In their declaration today the United Nations, including the Fighting French, warn all persons to refrain from acquiring any property in Nazi-held territory which may later be claimed by the ...

UN secretary-general 'reiterates that he is deeply concerned about reports of the arbitrary detention of opposition figures, ...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations’ General Assembly following World War II and the Holocaust, was meant to eternalize the solemn vow “Never Again.” It was ...

The University of Colorado Law School and the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues hosted a dynamic event to celebrate the Tenth Anniversary of the Adoption of the United Nations ...

Eleanor Roosevelt, 1958, during a speech at the United Nations called ‘Where Do Human Rights Begin?’ Hansa Mehta was the delegate of India, and the only other female delegate to the Commission. She is ...

HE the Secretary-General of the National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) Sultan bin Hassan Al Jamali called on the United ...

WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to reaffirm faith in ...

Yoka Brandt, the Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the United Nations in New York. In June 2022, an intergovernmental process for the Declaration on Future Generations ...

At a Boston College conference that highlighted plastic pollution as a social justice crisis, participants presented a declaration to the United Nations advocating for a Global Plastics Treaty. “We ...