
Abortion Rights Groups Takes Fight to States
The battle over the right to an abortion shifted from the federal focus to the states. After a weekend of furious protest in the wake of the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade, a […]
The battle over the right to an abortion shifted from the federal focus to the states. After a weekend of furious protest in the wake of the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade, a […]
The findings of management consultancy Global HPO’s inquiry into the Amnesty International UK show that the charity, which has labeled Israel ‘apartheid’ in its own reports, is institutionally racist. Publishing a series of reports on […]
The number of nuclear weapons is likely to increase in the next decade though there was a slight decline in stocks between January 2021 and January 2022, shows the forecast that the Stockholm International Peace […]
The United Nations thanked the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for donating $10 million in order to rescue a decaying Safer oil tanker in Yemen. The United Nations aims to defuse a potentially catastrophic environmental issue. […]
Scholars are accusing the United Nations human rights chief of whitewashing China’s repression of the Uyghur people. Dozens of scholars published an open letter this week, accusing Michelle Bachelet of having ignored or contradicted academic […]
A new UN report pointed out on Tuesday that the main causes of the persistent cycles of violence are Israel’s occupation and the discrimination against Palestinians, concluding that Israel clearly has no intention of ending […]
After a fourth consecutive rainy season had failed Somalia, United Nations agencies warned in a joint statement on Tuesday that nearly a quarter of a million people are facing starvation in the Horn of Africa […]
UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet’s six-day trip to China was covered in controversy, showing a growing divide between China and the West. Analysts and experts say it is a worrying sign that even in […]
A hidden money group backed by a Swiss billionaire sent a multimillion-dollar infusion of cash to a dark money nonprofit connected with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Fox News informed. According to tax documents, the Pelosi-aligned […]
Anger with President Joe Biden and his Democratic Party over their apparent lack of direction on abortion rights is likely to drive months of planned rallies around the country, organizers say, Reuters reports. An extraordinary […]
The Security Council failed to do everything in its power to prevent and end this war, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday while visiting Kyiv, stressing that it makes him feel great disappointment, […]
A Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) official said on Sunday that Palestinians have been angered by the announcement that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) might allow other UN agencies to help service Palestinian […]
Humanitarian ceasefires between Russia and Ukraine are not on the horizon right now, said the United Nations aid chief. Martin Griffiths met with senior officials in Moscow and Kyiv this month to discuss “aspirations” for […]
Around 62,7%, or 7.74 million people, will face a crisis or worsening levels of food insecurity between April and July, the United Nations Children’s Fund warned quoting the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification analysis. Although […]
In a phone call to Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Thursday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has praised the Kingdom’s efforts to reach a political solution to the Yemen war that has been […]
“Ukraine is a crime scene,” the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, stressed on Wednesday while war crimes prosecutors visited the site of civilian killings in Bucha as tens of thousands of Ukrainians […]
The United Nations has increasingly heard accounts of rape and sexual violence in Ukraine and has called for an investigation of violence against women in Ukraine. The UN Women executive director Sima Bahous told the […]
Women and children who live in some of the hardest-to-reach camps for internally displaced people face chronic and high levels of violence and depression. Some women are forced into “survival sex.” A new report has […]
The United Nations General Assembly suspended on Thursday Russia from its Human Rights Council over gross and systematic violations and human rights abuses committed in Ukraine. The United States-initiated move got the support of 92 […]
After the United States announced on Monday it would seek Russia’s suspension from the UN Human Rights Council following the accusation of mass murdering civilians in Bucha, Ukraine, the United Nations General Assembly will vote […]
Last month’s cross-border terrorist attacks by the Houthi militia against critical civilian infrastructure in Saudi Arabia were strongly condemned on Monday by the members of the UN Security Council, which also underscored the truce will […]
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called in a tweet on Sunday for an independent investigation that will lead to effective accountability after stressing how deeply shocked he was by images of civilian deaths in Ukraine. […]
Ukraine and Russia have to agree on the delivery of aid and on the safe evacuation of civilians from frontline areas, where vitals are running out, especially from the besieged Mariupol, the International Committee of […]
Israel was accused of the crime of apartheid in the Occupied Palestinian Territories by the UN-appointed investigator tasked with investigating human rights abuses in Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. Michael Lynk, the independent expert appointed […]
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) would issue a ruling on Wednesday afternoon in Ukraine v. Russian Federation case regarding Allegations of Genocide under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of […]
Russian gymnast Ivan Kuliak has been condemned by the gymnastics’ governing body for his “shocking behavior,” as the gymnast now faces a long ban for wearing a symbol, the letter “Z”, in support of his […]
Russia’s military assault on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station led to the destruction of a neutron generator in one of the facilities on the campus, IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi informed on Monday’s press conference. Grossi […]
Russian police have detained over 4,300 demonstrators in a crackdown at protests across Russia on Sunday against Moscow’s ongoing full-scale military offensive in Ukraine that started on Feb. 24, Russia-based human rights monitoring group OVD-Info […]
After earlier efforts were scuppered by ceasefire violations, the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol and the city of Volnovakha have restarted on Sunday morning efforts to evacuate the civilian population via ‘green corridors’. City officials […]
More than €400 million will be needed over the next three months to help civilians, especially children, in Ukraine, the UN’s Children’s Fund UNICEF estimates while its teams continue to face logistical problems delivering aid […]
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