Independent UN human rights investigators have heard first-hand accounts of torture, unlawful detention and the forced ...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres is continuing his campaign to accelerate the global switch from fossil fuels to clean ...

Nearly 100 people in Syria have been abducted or forcibly disappeared since January, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said ...

The crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues to worsen amid ongoing fighting that has driven tens ...

Warnings of worsening humanitarian conditions in Sudan continue, despite reports of a ceasefire deal brokered by international mediators on Thursday.

As world leaders gather in Brazil for the COP30 climate summit, UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday called for ...

To South Sudan, where aid teams warn that an already severe food and nutrition crisis could get worse without urgent ...

Around 1.5 million Jamaicans have been impacted by Hurricane Melissa – the worst climate disaster in the Caribbean nation’s ...

From Gaza to Ukraine and beyond, conflict has caused widespread death and destruction, but it has also devastated natural ...

Tropical forests, vital allies in the fight against climate breakdown, are vanishing at an alarming rate. On Thursday, in a ...

Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has fallen by 20 per cent compared to last year, continuing a dramatic decline since ...

The Security Council on Thursday adopted a resolution to remove Syria’s transitional President Ahmed al-Sharaa and Interior ...