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United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights urges India to protect human rights defenders and NGOs.

Violence and insecurity have pushed some 7.4 million people in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger into acute hunger, WFP says.

Conference, hosted by the UN, Germany, Denmark and the EU, aims to ‘instil acute sense of urgency’...

OHCHR country director among 9 of 12 of UN agency’s workers forced to leave after visas were not renewed.

UNHCR appeals for solidarity ahead of donor meeting with US, UK and EU aimed at raising more funds.

Abd al-Rahman al-Milad was sanctioned by the UN in June 2018 over accusations of involvement in human trafficking.

China, Russia and Cuba win seats as analysts question whether human rights violators should be elected to the council.

The UN’s World Food Programme says seven million people worldwide have already died from hunger this year.

Face-to-face talks between rival sides to resume next month in Tunisia as oil production in key oilfield starts again.

Dozens of people have been killed, including civilians, as fighting erupted despite a UN-brokered ceasefire in place.

Foreign minister says prospect for peace heightened now that belligerents appear uncertain about military solution.

UN chief urges pushback against those resisting women’s rights as US condemns ‘murder’ of baby girls.

Africa lost $836bn between 2000 and 2015 in what’s being termed ‘illicit capital flight’.

Kabuga is accused of genocide and crimes against humanity for equipping fighters that killed over 800,000 ethnic Tutsis.