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Cultural diversity is an outstanding source of exchange, innovation and creativity, and has the enormous potential to accelerate sustainable development, the United Nations cultural agency declared today. In a message marking the World Day for ...
The world is witnessing the highest level of human suffering since the Second World War. This is why, for the first time in the 70-year history of the United Nations, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has ...
A Palestinian human rights body says Israeli military forces have arrested at least 2,000 Palestinian children under the age of 18 since the third Intifada (uprising) against the Tel Aviv, last October. Spokesman for the ...
More than 80 per cent of people living in urban areas that monitor air pollution are exposed to air quality levels that exceed guidelines set by the World Health Organization (WHO), with populations in low-income ...
At least five people – three policemen and two civilians – were killed Monday in the Somali capital Mogadishu, in an attack car bomb led by the Shebab terrorists against the headquarters of the police ...
Prominent Turkish opposition journalists Can Dundar and Erdem Gul have been sentenced to five years and ten months and five years respectively for revealing state secrets. Dundar, the Editor-in-Chief of Cumhuriyet newspaper and Gul, the ...
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights(SOHR) is reporting at least 28 people have been killed in air strikes on a camp for the internally displaced in Syria’s Idlib Province. According to the director of SOHR, ...
A United Nations human rights expert today signalled concern that efforts to counter “violent extremism” may be construed as the “perfect excuse” for democratic and authoritarian governments to restrict free expression and control access to ...
More dead two hundred and several hundred injured in a week. In Aleppo, Syria’s second city, attacks against civilians are deemed « unacceptable » by the UN Secretary General. Thursday, the bloodiest day, tens of people were ...
« The government was anxious that the experts are leaving the country because they had discovered many things that were hidden. » More than a year and a half after the death of 43 students in Mexico, ...
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