The United Nations has announced new actions to counter the surge in antisemitism, including encouraging governments to enforce laws against hate crimes and discrimination.

U.S. President Joe Biden called the Equal Rights Amendment "the law of the land," on Friday, backing an effort to enshrine the change into the U.S. Constitution even though it long ago failed to ...

The 26-year-long civil war between the Sri Lankan government and the LTTE officially ended in May 2009 after claiming around 70,000 lives and displacing four times as many. Both sides committed a ...

Storyline: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said on Thursday that the ceasefire in Lebanon must transition into a durable peace. Speaking in Beirut, the Lebanese capital, Turk said ...

The United Nations human rights chief has called for the lifting of Western sanctions imposed on Syria over its yearslong ...

A group of UN human rights experts is urging the U.S. Senate to block a bill that seeks to punish the International Criminal ...

There is now a perception that it is dangerous to protect aid convoys but safe to loot them,” one UN official said.

Calls to formally recognize gender apartheid as a crime against humanity increase amidst growing edicts targeting the ...

While we welcome the release of Alexey Sokolov from pre-trial detention, we reiterate that he should not have been deprived of his liberty in the first place. The charges against him, which violate ...

The United Cup — the ATP Cup's successor ... Countries for the tournament are selected from the nations of the top five men's and women's players, according to ATP and WTA rankings.

Scope note UNCI was the first UN peacekeeping mission in which Australia was involved. The mission was established in 1947 as the Good Offices Commission (GOC). At the end of World War II, the Dutch ...

Scope note The Mission was established in March 1964 in an attempt to prevent the recurrence of fighting between the Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots and, as necessary, to contribute to the ...