The Committee was deeply concerned that the bilateral agreement “explicitly prevents the return of the Chagossian people to their ancestral lands in Diego Garcia Island,” even though it permits ...

Three dominant narratives contend for the future of Gaza and occupied Palestine, yet only one is being translated into consequential action: the Israeli narrative of domination and genocide. This ...

Giles Duley has dedicated his work as a photographer to document the impacts of war. He himself was severely wounded in Afghanistan and continues to fight on all fronts to heal his own wounds and ...

In his first interview since assuming the post in August, Chaloka Beyani reflected on the origins of his mandate, created by the UN Security Council in the wake of the genocides in Rwanda and ...

Te Whare o Rehua, Te Puna Ora o Mataatua’s newly established medical subsidiary, will proudly launch its urgent after-hours service, Rehua Tūahiahi After-Hours Clinic over Auckland Anniversary Weekend ...

But recent data shows that despite violence against women and girls being the most persistent and under-addressed human rights violations and crises, the number of women who experience it in their ...

Public debates about gender equality often raise the question: If we have a Ministry of Women, why don’t we have a Ministry of Men? The Fiji Women’s Rights Movement believes that the answer lies in ...

Many women still face opposition at home. For restaurant owner Shaista Hakimi, a mother of three, this has been painful and personal. Since her husband died two years ago, her father-in-law has pushed ...

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) issued its findings on Burundi, Guatemala, Maldives, New Zealand, Sweden and Tunisia after reviewing the six States Parties in its ...

Human Rights Day is observed annually on 10 December. On that date in 1948, the declaration was signed, laying out for the first time in 30 sections – or articles – a framework on fundamental human ...

GENEVA (5 December 2025) – Attacks against journalists and independent media outlets in Serbia have spiralled in the past year, UN experts* warned today, calling on the Government to end impunity for ...

Since 2006, the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has allocated nearly $10 billion in more than 110 countries through rapid and strategic financing that often arrives before other sources of ...