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The UN High Commissioner for Refugees called on Sunday for greater international support to stem the "humanitarian catastrophe" now engulfing Lebanon following a massive escalation in Israeli airstrikes and a "limited" ground invasion there targeting ...

NEW YORK, Oct 05 (IPS) - We must build a new social contract for education - a contract based on equality, equity, and universal human rights. At the center of our global efforts to ensure education for all, we must put teachers first in everything . ...

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Oct 04 (IPS) - The UN Office on Drugs and Crime hailed the recently agreed Cybercrime Convention as a 'landmark step' in cooperating to tackle online dangers. But human rights organisations aren't so sure.

Some Palestinian orphans in Gaza have gotten a glimmer of hope as the tragedies triggered by the grinding nearly year-long war continue to deplete the Strip.

Universities must respect peaceful activism and revise repressive policies targeting the pro-Palestinian solidarity movement on their campuses, a UN independent human rights expert said on Friday.

The UN Human Rights Council held a dialogue on Friday to examine the nuclear testing legacy in the Marshall Islands, which representatives from the Pacific nation said has left their people with some of the highest rates of cancer globally.

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 04 (IPS) - Over the past few months, the escalation of gang violence and mass displacement in Haiti have been of great concern for humanitarian organizations. Severe levels of armed violence have resulted in significant ...

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 03 (IPS) - Reem Alsalem, the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls, calls prostitution a "system of violence" that does not benefit society at all, especially the women and girls forced into this system.

The United Kingdom announced on Thursday that agreement has been reached to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, ending decades of dispute and negotiation over Britain's last African colony.

Russian shelling has hit another apartment block in Ukraine's second city of Kharkiv, UN aid teams said on Thursday.