In a town near Jerusalem, a growing number of Palestinian houses and businesses are receiving demolition and evacuation notices.

European and African leaders gathered for a summit to deepen economic and security ties, with emergency talks on Ukraine also on the cards.

Nearly one in three women have experienced intimate partner or sexual violence, the World Health Organization said.

A US appeals court suspended the release of hundreds of people on bail after they had been arrested by immigration ...

Dozens of Indigenous protesters, some holding babies, peacefully blocked the entrance to the UN climate summit in Brazil on Friday to demand a meeting with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and ...

Many people imagine that countries with authoritarian regimes are horrifying places, with populations ruled by terror and indoctrinated to blind obedience by some ...

Despite major gains in education and reducing poverty in recent decades, entrenched inequalities are eroding trust in institutions and democratic systems around the world, the UN warned Tuesday.

At last week’s meeting of the Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking States, the Azeri, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and Turkish leaders, joined by the Hungarian leader in observer status, welcomed Uzbekistan as a ...

The political status of Puerto Rico is a long-standing issue that requires urgent action. The island, an unincorporated territory of the United States, is neither a sovereign nation nor a U.S. state.

States with abysmal human rights records seek election to the UN Human Rights Council not to advance human rights but to block their realization. This cynical behavior is an aberration that needs to ...