Nicaragua: After two years of crisis, more than 100,000 have fled the country
Over the past two years, more than 100,000 people in Nicaragua have sought asylum abroad, reportedly fleeing persecution and human rights abuses, the UN refugee […]
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Rising number of young people excluded from jobs, education and training
The number of young people around the world who are neither employed, studying or in some kind of training, is on the rise, according to […]
Sudan Prime Minister survives attempted assassination
Sudan’s Prime Minister survived a reported assassination attempt in the capital Khartoum on Monday, tweeting after the incident that he was “safe and in good […]
Rights office concerned over death sentences against 35 Yemeni MPs
The UN human rights office is calling on authorities in Yemen to revoke death sentences imposed against 35 parliamentarians allegedly for treason charges. Rights office […]
COVID-19: countries, businesses must safeguard human rights as virus spreads: Bachelet
As the COVID-19 coronavirus continues to spread globally, the UN’s top human rights official appealed on Friday to put rights “front and centre” when implementing preventative measures. […]
International Women’s Day: Gender equality benefits everyone
The benefits of gender equality are not just for women and girls, but “for everyone whose lives will be changed by a fairer world”, the […]
DR Congo: Agencies appeal for funding for refugee support and Ebola response
Urgent resources are needed to support countries in southern Africa and the Great Lakes region which are hosting more than 900,000 refugees and asylum seekers […]
International Women’s Day: progress on gender equality remains slow
Women’s Rights in Review, 25 years after Beijing takes stock of how the landmark gender equality plan, the Beijing Platform for Action, is being implemented […]
New UN report reveals nearly 90 per cent have ‘a deeply ingrained bias’ against women
Despite decades of progress in closing the gender equality gap, close to nine out of 10 men and women around the world, hold some sort […]
Violent extremism prevention ‘only effective’ if human rights are enshrined
Many global programmes aimed at countering violent extremism have negative impacts on human rights and may even ‘foster radicalization’ rather than preventing it, an independent […]