Health data, women’s and LGBT rights in spotlight at Human Rights Council
The Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Tlaleng Mofokeng, warned that technology enabled easy sharing of sensitive health data of adolescents, migrants…
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One-day event in Brussels to promote women’s empowerment in sports sector
Over the last decade, women’s involvement in the sports sector has grown exponentially, but numbers point out that, in Europe, this sector…
Record executions, large-scale arrests and detentions: New Iran human rights report
“The overall human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran has markedly deteriorated against the backdrop of continuously worsening socio-economic conditions,…
With needs at a record high, underfunding is chronic Guterres tells humanitarians
With 360 million people worldwide in need of humanitarian assistance, up 30 percent since early 2022, global humanitarian needs have yet again reached…
Afghanistan mission chief to Taliban: Bans on women and girls cost you legitimacy at home and abroad
UN Special Representative Roza Otunbayeva was briefing the Security Council on the dire situation facing the country and the international aid effort, with…
UN remains focused on ‘critical needs’ of Ukraine’s people
Achim Steiner, head of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and Vice-Chair of the UN Sustainable Development Group told delegates he had just…
DRC: Lives shattered by violence, displacement and hunger in ‘forgotten crisis’: WFP
According to the UN World Food Programme (WFP), since March 2022 alone, 5.7 million people have been displaced in the eastern provinces…
Israel-Palestine: UN envoy ‘deeply alarmed by continuing cycle of violence’
Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland was reacting on Twitter to the news of a shooting attack reportedly…
Sudan: Guterres urges donors to boost aid response to halt death, destruction
Addressing donors at a pledging event in Geneva convened by the UN with Egypt, Germany, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the African Union and…
‘Vital’ human rights cooperation must be above fray of politics: Türk
In his annual review presented to the Human Rights Council, which opened its 53rd regular session on Monday, Mr. Türk insisted that such…