The Antigua and Barbuda authorities said on Thursday they had become aware of allegations that one of the country’s flagged ...

Amnesty International on Thursday warned that the abrupt suspension of U.S. foreign aid has put millions of lives and human rights at risk globally by halting critical programs such as the provision ...

About 1 million Tibetans are estimated to be enrolled in boarding schools, where they are reportedly subjected to forced ...

For the first time in its history, the United Nations General Assembly held a high-level meeting addressing the human rights ...

A United Nations warehouse in war-torn Gaza was broken into by “hordes of hungry people” on Wednesday as aid trickles into the Palestinian enclave on the brink of famine and the United States readies ...

Israel will build 22 new settlements in the West Bank including some along its eastern border with Jordan, a development the ...

More than 37,000 people, including at least 26,000 women, have lost Kuwaiti nationality since August, say reports ...

Rumors circulating at UN Headquarters suggest there is little appetite for ambition at the Second World Summit for Social ...

Dozens of U.S. states and local governments have filed lawsuits alleging that fossil fuel companies misled the public about ...

Dozens were wounded at a hub of the Israel- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which aid groups have boycotted.

Writer Zadie Smith, Ian McEwan and Russell T Davies have put their names to an open letter - signed by more than 400 authors ...

British-Egyptian writer and human rights activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah is being unlawfully detained by the Egyptian government, ...