Australia violated the rights of asylum seekers arbitrarily detained on the island of Nauru, a UN watchdog ruled Thursday, in ...

BEIRUT: Lebanese lawmakers elected army chief Joseph Aoun as president on Thursday (Jan 9), ending a more than two-year ...

Australia has been accused of trying to “escape its human rights responsibility” after a UN committee found it was responsible for arbitrary detention of asylum seekers in Nauru.

IDF announces new attacks on Syrian military capabilities • Attack is first since US mixed decision regarding new regime ...

A UN committee found that Australia violated a human rights treaty by detaining a group of asylum seekers, including minors, on the remote Pacific island of Nauru even after they were granted refugee ...

United Nations: "India would again be the fastest growing large economy in the world" with a projected annual growth rate of ...

Lancet study used data from the ministry, an online survey and social media obituaries to estimate that there were between 55 ...

Attending the UN climate (COP28) and biodiversity (COP16) conferences during the past two years, it strikes this observer ...

UNITED NATIONS - Critical supply shortages, severe access restrictions and violent armed looting are contributing to a hunger ...

Global economic growth is projected to remain at 2.8 percent in 2025, unchanged from last year, according to a UN report ...

North Korean troops sent to support Russia are being used as 'human mine detectors' on the frontlines of the invasion of ...

The number of people killed in Gaza is significantly higher than the figure reported by authorities in the enclave, a ...