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The U.N. reports worsening human rights in Venezuela, citing political arrests, enforced disappearances, and NGO restrictions amid growing unrest.
After Maduro's government expelled the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights from Venezuela in February 2024, the agency relocated to Panama and Geneva and continues to receive ...
On the fourth anniversary of his imprisonment, Vietnamese environmentalist Dang Dinh Bach, who was sentenced to five years on ...
The U.N.'s decision to hire four new staff for its controversial anti-Israel commission, despite an ongoing liquidity crisis, raises questions about spending priorities as the U.S. weighs funding.
More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since May while trying to get food in Gaza, mostly near food ...
As Israel faces mounting pressure to end the Gaza war, a hospital director says the Palestinian enclave is facing "alarming ...
Iran has more than doubled state executions in 2024 with at least 612 people killed compared to 297 in the same period last ...
Hunger and disease continue to stalk Palestinians in Gaza, and aid organizations are warning that children are at greatest ...
In May the leading U.N. agency for gender equality, U.N. Women, reported that 90% of women's rights organizations in crisis-affected countries have been hit by cuts.