Olympic Refugee Team Urged to Inspire the World

United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon paid a visit Thursday to the Olympic Village in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where

UN Deplores Crackdown on Journalists in Turkey

Two top media freedom experts of the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) condemned

In the first six months of this year, 5,166 civilians were either killed or maimed in Afghanistan, a half-year record

Global temperatures for the first six months of this year shattered yet more records, and mean that 2016 is on

The top human rights body at the United Nations has voted to appoint an independent expert on protection from violence

In 1989, the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) recommended that 11 July be observed by the