Month: March 2022

A new UN initiative aims to promote greater inclusion and acceptance of transgender children, and to advocate for their rights. from UN News – Human […]

Since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, more than 4 million people have fled the country – two million of them, are children. As […]

Nearly half of all pregnancies, totalling 121 million each year worldwide, are unintended, according to a new report published on Wednesday by the UN’s sexual […]

The United Nations on Tuesday remembered the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade and its continued impact on the modern world, by honouring the tradition of […]

More than two decades after the signing of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (PoA) – the UN’s blueprint to tackle racism and other forms […]

Many of Libya’s migrant detention centres remain places of terrible and systematic abuse, that may amount to crimes against humanity, top rights investigators said on […]

A deepening crackdown on civil society in Libya, has prompted the concern of the UN human rights office, which noted on Friday that arbitrary arrests […]

Calling on the international community to accept and adopt the recent findings in his report, an independent human rights expert said on Friday that “apartheid […]

Calling on the international community to accept and adopt the recent findings in his report, an independent human rights expert said on Friday that “apartheid […]

Ongoing violence in Ukraine has left millions of people “in constant fear” of indiscriminate shelling, the UN warned on Friday, as efforts continued to reach […]