New York, May 30 (JEN): Welcoming Nebraska as the nineteenth state in the United States to abolish the death penalty, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) today ur ...

New York, May 30 (JEN): The United Nations refugee agency Friday welcomed the positive outcomes of a regional meeting in Thailand to resolve the advancing solutions to refugees and migrants ...

Jammu, May 29 (JEN): The international human rights watchdog Amnesty International has asked Jammu and Kashmir government to stop using pellet-firing shotguns in policing demonstrations as t ...

New York, May 29 (JEN): Addressing the graduating class at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium, where he was bestowed an honorary degree on Thursday, United Nations Secretary-Genera ...

New York, May 27 (JEN): The Security Council on Tuesday adopted a resolution extending the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) as the Horn of Africa country c ...

New York, May 27 (JEN): The top United Nations human rights official drew attention to several issues of concern on Tuesday in an informal address to the Geneva-based Human Rights Council fr ...

New York, May 26 (JEN): Each year, Africa Day is an opportunity to celebrate the continent's achievements and to reflect on its challenges, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said ...

New York, May 25 (JEN): The United Nations Special Representative for South Sudan, Ellen Margrethe Løj, has urged accountability and justice for those responsible for gross human rights vio ...

New York, May 22 (JEN): After examining the case, a United Nations Committee has found that Canada’s deportation of a Jamaican man with a mental disability who had spent much of his life i ...