South Africa’s newly minted ambassador to the United States, Ebrahim Rasool, has said the country is very worried about the rapid rise in tensions between the two countries. Chrispin Phiri, ...

As many as 1,400 people were killed in former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s violent response to a student-led revolt, ...

The U.N. human rights office estimates that up to 1,400 people may have been killed in Bangladesh over three weeks last ...

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the United States from the UN Human Rights Council and the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East ...

The United Nations’ top humanitarian official in Sudan says the paramilitary group at war with the military in Sudan is preventing life-saving aid from reaching many people in the famine-hit Darfur re ...

The United Nations humanitarian chief says famine has been mostly averted in Gaza as a surge of aid enters the territory during a fragile ceasefire, but he warns the threat could return quickly if the ...

President Joseph Aoun announced in a statement that he had accepted the resignation of the former caretaker government and signed a decree with new Prime Minister Nawaf Salam forming the new ...

The United Nations leadership and its member countries need a backup plan to ensure lifesaving UN humanitarian aid and human ...

A newly appointed U.S. envoy says she hopes Lebanese authorities are committed to making sure that the Hezbollah militant ...

We will not be able to make progress on the Sustainable Development Goals without […] a full sense of partnership,” said ECOSOC President Ambassador Bob Rae, as we spoke with him ahead of the 2025 ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution or war at home. Since 1950, we have faced multiple ...