We need to "take a step back" and assess the full environmental and human rights impacts of mining critical minerals, says ...

UN special rapporteurs wrote to the UK government raising concerns about the use of counter-terror legislation to prolong ...

Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, a prominent Israeli legal scholar and former UN official, is spearheading efforts to document the sexual violence committed by Hamas during the October 7, 2023, attacks on ...

The position of Overseas Territories – including Bermuda – on the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories was ...

A United Nations special rapporteur is on a 10-day visit to Zambia to assess accusations that the government is stifling dissent. According to the U.N., Irene Khan will also focus on Zambia’s ...

The United Nations Chief, António Guterres, last Friday, announced the appointment of Hanna Serwaa Tetteh of Ghana as the global body's new special envoy to Libya and Head of the United Nations ...

North Korean soldiers are capable, incredibly disciplined, and willing to die before they're captured. But they're also new ...

Permanent Representative of the State of Qatar to the United Nations H E Sheikha Alya Ahmed bin Saif Al Thani met with United Nations ...

Independent NT politician Yiŋiya Guyula has requested the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous ...

HE Permanent Representative of the State of Qatar to the United Nations Sheikha Alya Ahmed bin Saif Al-Thani met with United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen. During the meeting, the ...

Albert Barume, an international human rights law expert from the Democratic Republic of Congo who was appointed UN special rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples in December 2024 ...