Latin America rights groups face growing threats, attacks: Bachelet
UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet on Thursday issued an alert over...
UN chief pledges to keep ‘memories alive’ of those who died in service during 2020
The United Nations paused on Thursday to honour 336 personnel who lost...
UN launches key initiative to protect seafarers’ human rights amid COVID-19 crisis
Around 200,000 cargo ship crew members are stranded at sea, beyond the...
FROM THE FIELD: Uganda conflict survivor helps communities find ‘ways forward’
A Ugandan man who avoided being drawn into a decades’ long conflict...
WHO chief hails ‘monumental moment’ in COVID fight, as US throws support behind vaccine patent waiver
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday said the...
USA: Rights expert decries wave of anti-protest laws ‘spreading through the country’
A UN independent human rights expert has slammed new laws in several...
Early-warning ‘pandemic hub’ plan unveiled by WHO’s Tedros and Germany’s Merkel
An international hub for pandemic control is to open in Berlin to...
Myanmar: Attacks on healthcare jeopardizing COVID-19 response, UN team says
There have been at least 158 reported attacks on medical personnel and...
155 million faced acute food insecurity in 2020, conflict the key driver
At least 155 million people faced crisis levels of food insecurity in...
South Asia: ‘Real possibility’ health systems will be strained to a breaking point, UNICEF warns
Impacts of the deadly new surge in COVID-19 cases across South Asia...
