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UNITED NATIONS, December 11 (IPS) - Over the course of 2025, global civic space conditions have deteriorated sharply, with most countries experiencing some degree of obstructed civil liberties. As authoritarian governments strengthen their hold and . ...

GENEVA, December 11 (IPS) - Human rights are underfunded, undermined and under attack. And yet. Powerful. Undeterred. Mobilizing.This year no doubt has been a difficult one. And one full of dangerous contradictions. Funding for human rights has been ...

UNITED NATIONS, December 11 (IPS) - When there was widespread speculation that a UN Under-Secretary-General (USG), a product of two prestigious universities- Oxford and Cambridge- was planning to run for the post of Secretary-General back in the ...

In a world of turbulence and doubt, one promise remains. In 1948, nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

NAIROBI, December 10 (IPS) - A new study and interactive dashboard released today in Nairobi at the seventh session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) finds that current international financial flows remain billions of dollars short of ...

The vast majority of World Health Organization (WHO) member States say 40 to 90 per cent of their populations now use traditional medicine.

Intensifying fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has claimed more than 70 civilian lives, displaced over 200,000 people and cut thousands off from food assistance, prompting UN warnings of a rapidly expanding humanitarian ...

Global temperatures rises are projected to surpass 1.5°C (2.7°F) within the next decade, underscoring the urgency of the climate crisis.

Afghanistan's worsening humanitarian crisis is being driven by the accelerating erosion of fundamental rights - especially for women and girls - alongside mass displacement, economic decline and shrinking aid, senior UN officials warned on Wednesday.

In Gaza, as airstrikes, shelling and gunfire continued to kill and maim Palestinians, UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Wednesday rejected suggestions by the Israeli military that the so-called "Yellow Line" of concrete blocks it has erected ...