The son of dictator Ferdinand Marcos wants to bury the history of the movement that toppled his father, but Filipinos are uplifting it.

The United Nations International Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has urged journalists to actively report on children’s rights and ...

(1) The value of the U.S. dollar in terms of the SDR is the recip rocal of the sum of the dollar values, based on market exchange rates, of specified quant ities of the first four currencies shown ...

The United Nations Human Rights Council today agreed by consensus to launch an urgent fact-finding mission and commission of inquiry into atrocities being committed by all parties to the armed ...

Gang rule in Haiti has led to a staggering rise in sexual violence against children, the United Nations' children's organisation has warned. The Caribbean island has been in the grip of violent ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the ... 122.6 million people worldwide remained forcibly displaced due to persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations or ...

Catherine Russell never forgets the children she meets. As Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), she bears witness to the stories of tens of millions of children and ...

Two successive terms of U.S. membership on the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), before the mandatory one-year hiatus, have improved the body’s performance in several ways. These improvements ...

Reducing reoffending was one of the main themes at the Fourteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, including through deliberations among Member States and a dedicated ...

Diplomats at the United Nations Security Council said planned ... displaced Palestinians and vaccinated a quarter million children against polio. Tuesday was not the first time the United States ...

"The Aarhus Convention, strengthened by its GMO amendment, offers all UN member states and stakeholders a solid framework for engaging the public in such decision-making." ...

This is more than any other UN Convention except that on the rights of the child. All state parties to CEDAW were required to submit periodic reports to the UN on its implementation. Non ...