GENEVA — Saudi Arabia has been elected for membership of the board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency for 2022-2024, Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.
The election took place on Thursday at the plenary session of the 66th IAEA (...)
With huge swaths of his country still under water following recent devastating floods, Pakistan's Prime Minister appealed on Friday for global support to help his country face the consequences of a climate catastrophe the likes of which it has never (...)
The bodies of 71 migrants have reportedly been recovered following another shipwreck in the Mediterranean, off the coast of Syria, which heads of UN agencies described as a "simply tragic" development that demanded an international response to (...)
A group of United Nations experts investigating human rights violations committed in Ukraine in the seven months since Russia invaded said on Friday they had turned up evidence of war crimes.
The experts from the Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, (...)
Ethiopia's people are once again "mired...in the intractable and deadly consequences" of conflict between government troops and forces loyal to Tigrayan separatist fighters, who are all likely responsible for war crimes, top rights investigators (...)
UN independent human rights experts on Thursday strongly condemned the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died in police custody following her arrest for allegedly failing to comply with Iran's strict rules on women's dress, by wearing what (...)
GENEVA — Saudi Arabia called for fostering a culture of dialogue and respecting fully the principles of national sovereignty of states.
Ambassador Abdulmohsen bin Khothaila, permanent representative of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations and (...)
A suspected gang of thieves who allegedly stole items worth €300,000 (£260,000) from first-class passengers on French trains has been captured.
It is thought they stole luggage from passengers after sitting beside them on high-speed trains crossing (...)
Chile presented its appeal challenging Ecuador's place at the World Cup to FIFA on Thursday in a case regarding an alleged ineligible player, with a verdict possible within 24 hours.
Barely nine weeks before the 32-team World Cup is scheduled to (...)
The end of the COVID-19 pandemic is in sight, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday.
"We are not there yet. But the end is in sight," Ghebreyesus said at a virtual press conference. "We have (...)
Vice-President of the Human Rights Commission (HRC) Abdulaziz Bin Abdullah Al-Khayyal affirmed that the government of Saudi Arabia continues its efforts to promote and protect human rights and noble values based on the principle of "Human (...)
Vice-President of the Human Rights Commission (HRC) Abdulaziz bin Abdullah Al-Khayyal affirmed that the government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia continues its efforts to promote and protect human rights and noble values based on the principle of (...)
The 51st regular session of the United Nations Human Rights Council was inaugurated here Monday with the participation of a delegation from Saudi Arabia led by Vice-President of the Human Rights Commission (HRC) Abdulaziz Bin Abdullah (...)
The 51st regular session of the United Nations Human Rights Council was inaugurated here today, with the participation of a delegation from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, led by Vice-President of the Human Rights Commission (HRC) Abdulaziz bin (...)
2022 marks the tenth anniversary of the UN-run Za'atari refugee camp in Jordan. It is the largest in the Middle East — and one of the largest in the world — and home to some 80,000 Syrians. UN News spoke to some of the refugees about life at the (...)
Despite commendable progress on legal and policy safeguards for older persons, a UN-appointed independent human rights expert said on Friday that Nigeria must implement already adopted measures to protect them against ageism and age discrimination, (...)
People with disabilities trapped in the Russian control zones in Ukraine are reportedly being used as "human shields" by the Russian Federation armed forces, the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) warned on Friday.
In a (...)
A $7 million disbursement from the UN's Central Emergency Relief Fund (CERF), announced on Friday, will bolster response to the devastating monsoon floods in Pakistan, the worst in more than a decade.
The funding will help prevent waterborne (...)
Nearly 5,800 people have been killed in the conflict in Ukraine and the situation of prisoners of war in Russian-held areas is "worrying", the head of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in the country said on Friday.
Matilda Bogner was (...)
UN Secretary-General António Guterres appointed on Thursday, Volker Turk of Austria as the next United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, following approval by the General Assembly.
Guterres proposed that Turk succeed Chile's Michelle (...)
Ukraine's President Zelensky said he has "good news", claiming the recapture of several settlements from Russia.
Rumors have swirled for days about a possible breakthrough in the eastern Kharkiv region, but with no word from Ukrainian (...)
A rise in the frequency, intensity and duration of heatwaves will not only increase wildfires this century but also worsen air quality — harming human health and ecosystems, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) (...)
Achieving full gender equality, one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), could take close to 300 years if the current rate of progress continues, according to a report published on Wednesday by UN Women and the UN Department of Economic (...)
Sri Lanka is at a critical juncture and the new Government must make progress on accountability as well as institutional and security sector reforms, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said in a report published on Tuesday.
The country is in the (...)
International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies, marked on Sept. 7, takes place in a world where almost all the air we breathe is polluted, and some seven million people die from air pollution every year. Ahead of the Day, UN News spoke to two experts (...)
