Venezuela’s ruling party-controlled National Assembly has declared Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for ...

Human rights advocate Narges Mohammadi warns that the Iranian government is using the aftermath of its war with Israel to ...

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

An advisory opinion from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights also concluded that governments have special obligations to ...

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | State Minister for Internal Affairs, David Muhoozi, has reaffirmed the government’s ...

There have been many memorable moments in the 80-year history of the United Nations, both at its headquarters in New York and ...

SDG3 is not only the government’s responsibility; it also involves people’s efforts to create a healthy environment ...

Venezuelan opposition member Pedro Urruchurtu spoke to the UN about spending more than 400 days sheltering in the Argentine Embassy in Caracas as Maduro operatives had rifles pointed at him and his ...

The World Day against Trafficking in Persons was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly, in its resolution A/RES/68/192.

Days after Israel began striking Iran’s nuclear and military sites earlier this month, a US non-profit that has provided ...

Israel has agreed to the "necessary conditions" for a 60-day cease-fire in order to negotiate an end to the war in Gaza, ...

U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom report found continued “intense persecution” of Ukrainian Orthodox, ...