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

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

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

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 ...

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In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), health workers fighting the country’s largest-ever Ebola outbreak are ...

Four in five households in Lebanon struggle to afford basic necessities today, with children increasingly going hungry, ...

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