The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, says major companies and fast-moving technologies are creating new challenges for tackling rights abuses – and that governments and businesses need to step up.
For three years, thousands of angry messages poured into American actress Azie Tesfai...
A major UN meeting in Doha wrapped up on Thursday with a renewed drive to help the world’s poorest...
On the scheduled final day of COP30 in Belém, tense negotiations are stretching into Friday afterno...
The number of people facing acute food insecurity has tripled since 2016 to nearly 300 million, even...
The deadly legacy of conflicts old and new – from Gaza to Sudan and beyond – continues to kill a...
The United Nations Peacebuilding Fund on Wednesday announced a major milestone, with the approval of...
More than one in four children globally – around 610 million – live with mothers who have experi...
The global response to HIV is facing its most serious setback in decades, UNAIDS warned on Tuesday, ...
Global economic growth will slow to 2.6 per cent in 2025, down from 2.9 per cent in 2024, as global ...