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Israeli forces on Sunday arrested the 23 year old activist and journalist Muna al-Kurd from her home in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in Jerusalem, Palestine News Agency Wafa reported.

Around one million Palestinians have been arrested by Israeli forces since the 1967 Middle East war, according to a local NGO, Commission on Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs.

Upholding human rights online must be part of global efforts to recover better following the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of United Nations independent experts said on Friday.

Jonathan Beloff, SOAS, University of London French president Emmanuel Macron has just paid his first state visit to Rwanda. While many world leaders have visited the central African nation of...

Amidst the triple environmental threat of biodiversity loss, climate disruption and escalating pollution, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres launched “an unprecedented effort to heal the Earth”, on the eve of World Environment Day.

WHO is urging wealthy countries to donate their surplus doses to poorer countries instead of giving them to less vulnerable groups, such as children, and they have so far donated 150 million doses via the COVAX sharing scheme.

The COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected children's rights worldwide, with young people risking a generational catastrophe if governments do not act, a rights group said in an annual survey.

The economic crisis caused by the COVID pandemic is expected to contribute to global unemployment of more than 200 million people next year, with women and youth workers worst-hit, UN labour experts said on Wednesday.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has approved a vaccine made by Sinovac Biotech for emergency use listing, the second Chinese-produced shot to get its endorsement, a WHO statement said.

Ramzy Baroud The ceasefire on May 21 has, for now, brought the Israeli war on Gaza to an end. However, this ceasefire is not permanent and constant Israeli provocations anywhere in Palestine...

Jessica Corbett, commondreams.org United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet responded to the Colombian president's decision to deploy thousands of troops after a month of protests by calling for an...

UN health agency chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged all countries on Monday to support a pandemic preparedness treaty, warning that it would be a “monumental error” to think the danger of COVID-19 has passed.