Three dominant narratives contend for the future of Gaza and occupied Palestine, yet only one is being translated into consequential action: the Israeli narrative of domination and genocide. This ...

The emergency erupted in April 2023 when a transition to civilian rule broke down and today the Sudanese Armed Forces continues to clash with paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. Recently, the RSF ...

Many women still face opposition at home. For restaurant owner Shaista Hakimi, a mother of three, this has been painful and personal. Since her husband died two years ago, her father-in-law has pushed ...

Human Rights Day is observed annually on 10 December. On that date in 1948, the declaration was signed, laying out for the first time in 30 sections – or articles – a framework on fundamental human ...

As other governments contemplate similar moves, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) cautions that age-related restrictions alone won’t keep children safe. “While UNICEF welcomes the growing commitment to ...

The Office on the Prevention of Genocide and the Responsibility to Protect functions as an early warning system within the UN. It alerts the Secretary-General, the Security Council and the wider UN ...

Since 2006, the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has allocated nearly $10 billion in more than 110 countries through rapid and strategic financing that often arrives before other sources of ...

The Committee was deeply concerned that the bilateral agreement “explicitly prevents the return of the Chagossian people to their ancestral lands in Diego Garcia Island,” even though it permits ...

Giles Duley has dedicated his work as a photographer to document the impacts of war. He himself was severely wounded in Afghanistan and continues to fight on all fronts to heal his own wounds and ...

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has called on the authorities to take action to address the root causes of the violations. He stressed that accountability, justice, peace and ...

Te Whare o Rehua, Te Puna Ora o Mataatua’s newly established medical subsidiary, will proudly launch its urgent after-hours service, Rehua Tūahiahi After-Hours Clinic over Auckland Anniversary Weekend ...

PENANG, Malaysia – A fact-finding mission (FFM) into the widely reported mass pesticide poisoning at a rural Philippine high school has identified major systemic failures that allowed the tragedy to ...