Three sites used by Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime as torture and execution sites 50 years ago have been added by ...

Fourth session of the UN Environment Assembly of the UN Environment Programme 11 - 15 March 2019, United Nations Environment Programme Headquarters, Nairobi, Kenya. Under the overall theme, ...

Inger Andersen is Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. Between 2015 and 2019, Ms. Andersen ...

An independent investigator is being sanctioned by the United States over her work scrutinizing human rights abuses in the ...

The Trump administration has announced it is issuing sanctions against an independent investigator tasked with probing human ...

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Considered the most progressive blueprint ever for advancing women's rights, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action has been reprinted in this special edition, which also includes a copy of ...

Seven years on, the refugee camps are still full. Rohingya futures are still frozen. And the promises from the international ...

The Compact on Women, Peace and Security and Humanitarian Action provides a path for Member States, United Nations entities, regional organizations, private sector actors, and civil society – ...

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Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield discusses the future of multilateralism and U.S. commitments to reforming the United Nations Security Council to be more inclusive, representative, and legitimate.

UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations, a collaborative global dream built into reality out of the ashes of World War II, marks its 80th anniversary this month. But there’s little to celebrate ...