What was once hailed as a vehicle for empowerment has, for millions of women and girls, become a source of [...]
A 12-year-old boy and his grandmother cut the ribbon at UN Headquarters on Monday to inaugurate a flower-shaped memorial to [...]
The illicit trade in cultural property is one of the world’s oldest and most profitable forms of criminal activity – [...]
Lauren Emmerson has been reflecting this RJ week on how children’s rights, access to justice, and human rights intersect when using restorative justice to [...]
Coercion and sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) are “assaults on the very principles of international law itself,” the [...]
Fifty-two prisoners have died in Haiti’s overcrowded prisons between July and September this year in conditions that have been described [...]
The UN Special Adviser on genocide prevention has raised concerns over widespread allegations of war crimes committed in Sudan’s El [...]
Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has fallen by 20 per cent compared to last year, continuing a dramatic decline since [...]
Journalists risk their lives every day to bring facts to light, yet most attacks against them go unpunished. Source: UN [...]
Sixty-five nations have signed a landmark United Nations treaty in Hanoi aimed at tackling cybercrime – a move Secretary-General António [...]