UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Friday stressed that the fragile ceasefire in Gaza must hold, urging all parties to honour their commitments and prevent a breakdown of the agreement, UN News ...

The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has concluded his second visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo, where his office is exploring measures to deal with war crimes and crimes a ...

The United States has cut $377 million worth of funding to the UN reproductive and sexual health agency, UNFPA, it was confirmed on Thursday, leading to potentially “devasting impacts” on women and gi ...

The Libyan Ministry of Planning has signed a cooperation agreement with the German Foundation for International Cooperation (GIZ) aimed at strengthening cooperation and strategic partnership for susta ...

Sudan is a flashpoint, with a growing risk of atrocity crimes and mass starvation deaths, the UN rights chief warned on Thursday, noting that some of the abuses described in his report could amount ...

Eritrea continues to subject its citizens to indefinite military service, in violation of international human rights standards and calls by the Human Rights Council and other human rights mechanisms, ...

As Muslims around the world prepare to mark the beginning of the Holy Month of Ramadan, UN Secretary-General António Guterres issued a call on Thursday for compassion, empathy and generosity, urging p ...

UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Thursday called for an end to the “abhorrent, dehumanizing narratives” that continue to hamper a positive outcome to the Middle East crisis ...

Wisam sits in her classroom, absorbed in her work, her fingers gripping a blue-coloured pencil, carefully sketching a flower in her notebook, one of more than 100,000 displaced students in war-torn Su ...

Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) are carrying out further investigations to determine the cause of another cluster ...

UNICEF, the Government of Japan, and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) announced a new partnership of over US$3 million to provide mental health and psychosocial wellbeing services for ...

Shuttered clinics and health workers laid off around the world reflect the widespread, negative toll the United States funding freeze is taking on the global AIDS response, according to a new situatio ...