A new study by the University of Portsmouth calls for human rights to be at the heart of any economic development. The researchers highlight how international investment law predominantly supports a ...

The Secretary-General issued the Human Rights Due Diligence Policy on United Nations support to non-United Nations Security Forces (HRDDP) and instructed all United Nations entities considering or ...

(Seville) – The United Nations conference on financing for development should help pave the way for meaningful progress on improving international tax cooperation to benefit everyone’s human rights, ...

Partha Konwar is Associate Project Officer (Communications) at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable ...

A detached observer who wants to assess where countries stand on fundamental issues of human rights, international law, peace, development and multilateralism need only look at the voting record of ...

The consequences of AI's spectacular advances are infiltrating critical aspects of society. The pressing question we face today is the profound impact that these intelligent entities, despite their ...

On 10 December 1948, a fledgling United Nations took a momentous step. In adopting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it laid down a promise of a world to be rebuilt—after the horrors of ...

A general election in Germany is expected in February 2025. In December 2024, Human Rights Watch wrote to political parties in Germany sharing an election briefing that sets out key priorities and ...

On 9 July 2026, South Sudanese commemorated the 15 th anniversary of South Sudan’s independence. They marked this historical day with mixed reactions. The power brokers and political elites in power ...