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

The UN declared 1975 the International Year of Women and convened the First World Conference on Women, held in Mexico. In 1977, the UN formally recognized International Women’s Day, observed annually ...

Dr. Chris Nwanoro, Charge d’Affaires of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to Sao Tome & Principe, has once again made history. , at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, ...

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres says human rights are being “suffocated” around the world. He lashed out at voices of division and anger who see human rights as a barrier to their quest for ...

The International Organization for Migration (IOM), a United Nations agency, has been forced to lay off thousands of staff as ...

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) ...

Currently, the United Nations has four headquarters located in New York, Geneva, Vienna and Nairobi. However, none are situated in Asia. It is time for a fifth U.N. headquarters to be established ...

Mohammed Ben Sulayem, FIA President, addressed the UN Inland Transport Committee as ... 2030 Strategy Speaking at the Palais de Nations in Geneva, the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile ...

The event was hosted by the Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF) at its headquarters in Geneva. Acting Charge d'Affaires of Qatar's Permanent Delegation to the United Nations in ...

Geneva - The Geneva regional government voted on Feb 14 to provide 10 million Swiss francs (S$14.9 million) in emergency aid to NGOs based in the Swiss city that have been hit by US foreign aid cuts.