Sexual and reproductive health rights are human rights, the independent UN expert on the right to health reminded Member States in the General Assembly on Wednesday, saying that it was essential to restore services in the field, that have been (...)
The finance industry's demand for new sources of capital worldwide to satisfy investors, is having a serious negative impact on the enjoyment of human rights, a group of UN-appointed independent rights experts have warned.
Among the rights at risk (...)
After a big drop last year caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, global foreign direct investment (FDI) reached an estimated $852 billion in the first half of 2021, showing a stronger than expected rebound.
That is according to the latest Investment (...)
The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, is supporting the government of South Sudan in assisting people hit hard by the worst flooding there in decades.
Weeks of heavy rain have caused unrelenting floods, affecting more than 700,000 people across the country, (...)
Gender-based violence, hate speech and disinformation are being used extensively online and offline, to chill or kill women's freedom of expression, an independent UN human rights expert told the General Assembly on Monday.
Presenting her report on (...)
Football legend Didier Drogba on Monday was named the World Health Organization's (WHO) new Goodwill Ambassador for Sport and Health.
Drogba, from Côte d'Ivoire, will promote WHO's top tips on how physical activity can lead to a healthier and (...)
UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, has urged greater international support for the more than 13 million Syrians who've been displaced in the past 10 years.
Currently, around 6.7 million have been displaced inside the country and 5.5 (...)
To understand the richness of biodiversity across World Heritage marine sites, the UN scientific organization launched on Monday a project to protect and preserve biodiversity, based on the study of environmental DNA.
Launching the new program, the (...)
The decision by the Taliban leadership to support the resumption of house-to-house polio vaccination across Afghanistan has been welcomed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
The vaccination (...)
The process of drafting a new constitution for Syria will begin this week, the UN Special Envoy for the country, Geir Pedersen, said on Sunday at a press conference in Geneva.
Pedersen was speaking following a meeting with the government and (...)
The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, on Friday urged countries to step up reunification for Afghans whose families remain in the country or who are displaced across the region, as the humanitarian crisis in their homeland worsens.
Spokesperson Shabia (...)
Displaced families in Nigeria's northeast are "knocking on the door of starvation", the UN World Food Program (WFP) said on Friday.
The alert follows years of insecurity linked to non-State armed groups that have disrupted livelihoods and forced (...)
Dmitry Muratov, editor-in-chief of Russia's Novaya Gazeta newspaper, has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this year. He shares the prestigious award with Maria Ressa, another campaigning journalist from the Philippines.
The pair received the award (...)
The United Nations has condemned the deadly suicide bombing during Friday prayers at the largest Shiite mosque in the city of Kandahar, in southern Afghanistan, which killed at least 30 people and wounded dozens more.
The attack marked the second (...)
For more than two years, a UN-appointed team of 59 people has been collecting and analyzing more than two million pieces of evidence about possible human rights violations in Myanmar.
Working out of Geneva, there are experts in gender violence and (...)
Although COVID-19 deaths continue to decline, vaccine inequity persists, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday, again calling for greater support for developing countries.
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reported (...)
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday launched an expert group that will examine the origins of new pathogens, including SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
The proposed members of the WHO Scientific Advisory Group for the (...)
For the past seven decades, the cells of Henrietta Lacks, a Black American woman who died of cervical cancer, have saved countless lives, and made numerous scientific breakthroughs possible, such as the human papillomavirus and polio vaccines, drugs (...)
Many developing nations remain unprotected against disaster, even though it is accepted that building community resilience has many benefits, beyond saving lives and livelihoods.
That's the alert from UN Secretary-General António Guterres, who on (...)
Up to five million premature deaths a year could be prevented if the global population was more active, but many people live in areas with little or no access to spaces where they can safely walk, run, cycle or engage in other physical (...)
Deaths from tuberculosis – one of the top infectious killers in the world – have increased for the first time in a decade, as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.
New data from the UN health (...)
China is preparing to test tens of thousands of blood bank samples from the city of Wuhan as part of a probe into the origins of Covid-19, CNN reported on Wednesday quoting a Chinese official. The move comes amid increasing calls for transparency (...)
Distributing Covid-19 vaccine booster shots in some countries while inoculations across Africa lag is "immoral," according to the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO).
The increasing use of boosters is "immoral, unfair and unjust (...)
The arrest of Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and woman human rights defender Chow Hang-Tung, on charges of "incitement to subversion" and being a foreign agent, is a source of "deep concern" four UN independent human rights experts said on (...)
The humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan is worsening and funding for emergency aid is urgently needed to help 20 million people there, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Tuesday.
A month since the UN-led $606 million appeal for solidarity for the (...)
