As 2025 draws to a close, geopolitical divides are deepening – North and South, East and West. Against this backdrop, the UN ...

More than a month after Hurricane Melissa slammed the Caribbean, devastated communities still require assistance, the ...

More than half a million people have now been uprooted by escalating violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

Gaza’s health system for mothers and newborns has been “decimated”, the UN said on Thursday, with Israeli attacks destroying ...

Pregnant women took shelter in a bunkerised maternity unit in the Ukrainian city of Kherson last week, after a hospital was ...

Venezuela’s Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) has been implicated in a decade-long pattern of killings, arbitrary detentions, ...

A World Health Organization (WHO) expert committee has again confirmed that there is no causal link between vaccines and ...

Intensifying fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has claimed more than 70 civilian lives, displaced ...

Afghanistan’s worsening humanitarian crisis is being driven by the accelerating erosion of fundamental rights – especially ...

To commemorate this year’s Human Rights Day, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, invited members of the public to write in ...

In Afghanistan, where sweeping restrictions have pushed most women out of public life, thousands are refusing to give up on ...

As other governments contemplate similar moves, the UN Children’s Fund ( UNICEF) cautions that age-related restrictions alone ...