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ILO: 1.4 billion children globally missing out on basic social protection, according to latest data

According to new data released by the International Labour Organization (ILO), Save the Children and UNICEF, 1.4 billion children, aged...

Last update 13/3/2024
Essex Human Rights Online Summer School

Essex Human Rights Online Summer School

Monday 10 to Friday 21 June 2024 The University of Essex has opened the applications for 2024 Human Rights Online...

Last update 12/3/2024
un News: Reem Alsalem, Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, was among the human rights experts who issued the statement

United Nations: Rights experts call for probe into alleged violations against Palestinian women and girls

According to the latest statements from United Nations special rapporteurs Reem Alsalem and Francesca Albanese, numerous human rights violations against...

Last update 10/3/2024
UN News: Women in Afghanistan say they fear arrest, according to a new report by IOM, UN Women and UNAMA.

United Nations: Drastic erosion of women’s rights in Afghanistan continues

According to a recent multi-agency UN report, Afghan women are facing increased fears of arrest, harassment, and additional restrictions whenever...

Last update 7/3/2024
UN News: A mother-of-nine, who is suffering from malnutrition herself, cooks a meal for her children in an IDP camp in Aden, Yemen.

Yemen: Recent progress overshadowed by fallout from attacks on Gaza, UN envoy reports

The UN Special Envoy on Yemen, Hans Grundberg, highlighted the deepening complexity of the Yemen crisis amid reverberations from the...

Last update 4/3/2024
Visual art about civil rights.

Report CIVICUS Monitor: Rights Reversed A Downward shift in civic space (2019-2023)

CIVICUS, has recently published its latest brief, the CIVICUS Monitor, which assesses the state of civic space worldwide and offers...

Last update 1/3/2024
UNHCR distributes relief items to returnees at a transit centre in Renk, South Sudan.

UNHCR: 2023 report Emergency Preparedness and Response

In 2023, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, responded to multiple global crises, providing assistance to millions of people affected by:...

Last update 28/2/2024
People watch a building on fire following a missile attack in Ukraine.

United Nations: escalating toll as third year of war in Ukraine looms

The UN's Political and Peacebuilding Affairs chief Rosemary DiCarlo, briefed the Security Council, stating that as the war in Ukraine...

Last update 26/2/2024

Global Campus of Human Rights: MOOC on Children's Right to Education in Armed Conflict

The Global Campus of Human Rights offers a complimentary Mooc on Children's Right to Education in Armed Conflict, that takes...

Last update 24/2/2024
Business and Human Rights

UN Human Rights Chief urges EU leaders to approve key business and human rights legislation

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, urged European leaders to approve a groundbreaking agreement on business...

Last update 22/2/2024

Council of Europe: Call for nominations for the Vigdís Prize for Women’s Empowerment

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has issued a call for candidates for the first Vigdís Prize for...

Last update 18/2/2024
UN Secretary-General António Guterres briefs the General Assembly on the work of the Organization and his priorities for 2024

“Peace is the UN's raison d’être”: Guterres’ call for action and his priorities for 2024

“Peace is our raison d’être. Yet, as I scan the landscape of today’s world, the one thing missing most dramatically...

Last update 16/2/2024
Alice Nderitu, UN Special Adviser on Genocide, briefs reporters ahead of International Day of Countering Hate Speech (18 June)

The UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide’s statement on the war in the Middle East

On 9 February 2024, Alice Wairimu Nderitu, the UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide released a statement on...

Last update 12/2/2024
Garment workers protest to demand an
increase in minimum wages in Dhaka, Bangladesh on
31 October 2023.
Photo by Kazi Salahuddin Razu/NurPhoto via Getty Images.

OXFAM report 2024: Inequality Inc.

Since 2020, the world has witnessed the wealth of the top five billionaires doubling, while nearly five billion people globally...

Last update 11/2/2024
An activist holds anti-death penalty signs outside the US Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.

United Nations: Volker Türk voices regret over first ever execution by nitrogen suffocation

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk expressed profound regret over the execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith in Alabama, marking the...

Last update 10/2/2024