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More than one in five people employed – almost 23 per cent - have experienced violence and harassment in the workplace, whether physical, psychological or sexual, according to the first ever joint analysis of data worldwide carried out by the UN International Labour Organization (ILO), the independent global charity Lloyd’s Register Foundation (LRF) and analytics and polling company, Gallup.

Iran has scrapped its morality police units after more than two months of protests triggered by the arrest and custodial death of Mahsa Amini for allegedly violating the country's strict female dress code, ISNA news agency reported.

Marking this year’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities, which falls on Saturday, António Guterres, the UN Secretary-General, called for transformative, innovative solutions, in a world confronted by crises which disproportionally affect persons with disabilities.

Persons with disabilities face a risk of dying up to 20 years earlier than other sections of society, according to a new report issued by the World Health Organization on Friday.

For the first time ever, the number of people forced to flee their homes surpassed 100 million this year. Most, 59.1 million, are displaced within their own countries, often for years or even decades.

Five Palestinians, including two brothers, have been killed by Israeli fire during separate incidents in the occupied West Bank on International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, 29 November.

Most of the globe was drier than normal in 2021, with “cascading effects on economies, ecosystems and our daily lives”, the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Tuesday.

Hundreds of demonstrators and police have clashed in Shanghai as protests over China’s severe COVID-19 restrictions continued into the third day and spread to several other cities, Al Jazeera...

Google Doodle on Monday featured an Arab poet named Ousha bint Khalifa Al Suwaidi, also known as Ousha Al Suwaidi, who is considered one of the greatest Nabati poets...

Riots erupted in Belgium's capital Brussels and several other cities on Sunday after the historic upset by Morocco, 2-0, at the World Cup. Reports suggest unrest in Netherlands as...

FIFA has launched an investigation after photographs of a Serbian nationalist flag hung up in the football team’s dressing room emerged on social media when they faced Brazil at the World...

On average, more than five women or girls were killed every hour in 2021 by someone in their own family, two UN agencies said in a report published recently.