A teenage girl who fled war-torn Sudan for neighbouring Egypt and hopes to pursue a technology degree is an example of why ...

The General Assembly met on Thursday to examine the Security Council’s latest veto, cast by China and Russia over a United ...

The enormous challenge of halting the spread of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) just became even harder ...

The enduring radioactive legacy of US nuclear bomb testing in the Marshall Islands took centre stage at the Human Rights ...

The UN human rights chief and nine experts on Thursday called on authorities in Tennessee not to pursue any further attempts ...

Women must be at the centre of efforts to prevent conflict and build lasting peace, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights ...

Artificial Intelligence or AI – and the technology behind it – is moving fast. The question being asked across the world is ...

The deadly flash floods in northern Nepal have severely disrupted employment and livelihoods, with wider impacts beyond ...

Homicide rates are falling across much of the world, but organised crime is on the rise in many regions as criminal networks ...

Children have been killed and injured in fresh fighting in Baidoa, in Somalia’s South West State, where families were already ...

The UN refugee agency, UNHCHR, has voiced concern over Malaysia’s decision to return 1,476 people to Myanmar amid an ongoing ...

The UN chief on Tuesday strongly condemned an airstrike that reportedly killed at least 50 people at a market in Myanmar’s ...