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UNITED NATIONS, August 19 (IPS) - When smoking was common in the corridors of the UN, in the delegate's lounge and in committee rooms during the 1970s and 90s, the office of the Secretary-General sent a memo that read: "Smoking was Discouraged" in .. ...

CIVICUS discusses the state of civic and humanitarian action in Gaza with Ibrahim Arandas, a Palestinian activist and project manager at SPARK Gaza, a civil society organisation that provides humanitarian and psychosocial support.

In the wake of President Hakainde Hichilema of Zambia's re-election for a second five-year term, UN human rights chief has raised concerns over the reported arrests and detention of political opponents in the country.

Reports of new illegal Israeli outposts in the occupied West Bank raised alarms at UN Headquarters on Wednesday while the UN rights office called on Israel to condemn its national security minister's words that incite "violence amounting to atrocity ...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday responded to a new round of US sanctions targeting its president and a senior prosecutor, calling them "a flagrant attack" against the court.

SYDNEY, August 19 (IPS) - The 13th of August marked the 100th birthday of Cuba's revolutionary leader Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz - in short Fidel Castro. Amidst an intensified US siege and the threat of invasion, Cubans commemorated their dear leader ...

Independent UN Human Rights Council-appointed experts on Tuesday condemned the execution of at least 16 people in Singapore for drug-related offences this year and urged the country to end its "continued and unlawful use of capital punishment."

UNITED NATIONS, August 18 (IPS) - Since the collapse of the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon announced in June, the humanitarian situation in Lebanon has deteriorated sharply. Marked by high casualties, immense destruction to civilian ...

UNITED NATIONS, August 17 (IPS) - Women-led and women's rights organizations (WLOs) in humanitarian settings are collapsing amidst a complicated predicament in which needs are surging and international support is dwindling.

LONDON, August 17 (IPS) - In a recent Wall Street Journal piece, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio pledged to 'dismantle' the International Criminal Court (ICC). The Trump administration intends to pressure states into quitting the court, threatening ...