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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

In Gaza, as airstrikes, shelling and gunfire continued to kill and maim Palestinians, UN human rights chief Volker Türk on ...

Mothers who’ve been left starving in Gaza are now giving birth to underweight or premature babies who die in intensive care ...

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