Since then, Taiwan has been unable to attend the WHA even as an observer due to Chinese pressure, except from 2009 to 2016, ...

UN-backed human rights investigators have been hearing accounts of alleged abuses by Israeli forces against Palestinians.

GENEVA — Palestinians described alleged abuses by Israeli forces and settlers — punched in the genitals, held for days while ...

Palestinians have described alleged abuses by Israeli forces and settlers to independent U.N.-backed human rights ...

The World Health Organization has begun fixing priorities and announced a one-year limit on staff contracts, an internal memo ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. human rights office said on Tuesday it has received termination notices from the U.S. government ...

THE Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) has noted the article in the Stabroek News on March 2, 2025, titled “African Cultural Groups object to the ERC’s proposed delegation to this forum,” which grossly ...

Women and girls with disabilities are at increased risk of abuse, including forced sterilization, sexual exploitation and domestic violence, a United Nations independent expert warned on Monday, calli ...

GENEVA - The World Health Organization has started a process of fixing new priorities and announced a one-year limit on staff ...

The United Nations agency, which at the end of last year employed around 22,000 people, has already laid off thousands. It has also been accused of allowing its assisted voluntary return (AVR) ...

The race for the Federal Council is closer than expected. Markus Ritter is the favourite, but Martin Pfister could spring a ...

Responding to Switzerland’s cancellation of a conference by the High Contracting Parties (HCP) to the Geneva Conventions, ...