A senior Palestinian doctor died in an Israeli prison after more than four months of detention, two Palestinian prisoner associations said on Thursday, blaming Israel for his death.
The associations ...
The United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday adopted a resolution calling for Israel to be held accountable for possible war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip, ...
The United Nations used a new land route on Tuesday to deliver food to northern Gaza for the first time in three weeks as global pressure grows on Israel to ...
The head of the European Commission said on Friday a maritime aid corridor could start operating between Cyprus and Gaza this weekend, part of accelerating Western efforts to relieve the ...
Nearly 3,000 pregnant women in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, risk being cut off from essential healthcare if the current gang war-driven paralysis of the city continues, the United Nations said on ...
One in ten women live in extreme poverty globally, the United Nations (UN) reported on Friday.
“International Women’s Day is a day that encourages us to recognise the injustices ...
A U.N. expert on Friday criticised U.S. efforts to boost humanitarian aid to Gaza, such as plans for a temporary port and recent air drops, which he said ...
Nicaragua’s government committed human rights violations that amount to “crimes against humanity,” a United Nations-appointed team of human rights experts said in a report on Thursday.
The report called ...
A United Nations-sponsored conference on Afghanistan aimed at improving dialogue with the country’s Taliban rulers has ended after the administration’s representatives failed to show up.
The Taliban-led foreign ...
And perhaps she should encourage both sides to consider the two-state solution
By Fahri Zihni
The UN secretary-general’s personal envoy for Cyprus, Maria Angela Holguin arrived in Cyprus last ...
An Israeli intelligence dossier that prompted a cascade of countries to halt funds for a U.N. Palestinian aid agency includes allegations that some staff took part in abductions and ...
Cyprus’ Archbishop Georgios on Tuesday called on the UN to “take on its responsibilities” and protect the human rights of a people which has been suffering for years.
His statements ...
On Sunday, the last of 12,000 United Nations peacekeeping troops left Mali, ordered out by the military regime that seized power after two successive coups in 2020 and 2021. They leave behind them 310 ...
The entire 2.3 million population of the Gaza Strip is facing crisis levels of hunger and the risk of famine is increasing each day as the Israel-Hamas war grinds on, a ...
Israel faced growing diplomatic isolation in its war against Hamas as the United Nations demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza and U.S. President Joe Biden told the longtime ...
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres made a rare move to formally warn the Security Council of a global threat from the Gaza war as Arab states seek to use this ...
The United Nations Human Rights Committee on Friday expressed concern over Iran’s treatment of women and girls and called for the disbandment of the Islamic Republic’s morality police.
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A “high-ranking” UN official is expected to arrive in Cyprus in early November, towards the end of the coming week, according to local media.
The comments carried by the Cyprus ...
The United Nations’ “primary objective [in Cyprus] is to support the efforts directed by the leaders to secure a permanent settlement,” according to its special representative on the island Colin ...
Niger’s junta has demanded that the top United Nations official there leave the country within 72 hours over accusations that Niger was excluded from the annual UN gathering of world ...
Azerbaijan has invited a United Nations mission to visit Nagorno-Karabakh “in the coming days”, the foreign ministry said on Friday, amid a mass exodus of ethnic Armenians from the region ...
President Nikos Christodoulides will give clear answers on Wednesday to the positions which Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed in his speech before the UN General Assembly overnight in New ...
The world is not on target to curb global warming and more action is needed on all fronts, the United Nations warned on Friday, in the run-up to crucial international ...
Unficyp has allowed plenty of Greek Cypriot building in buffer zone, Turkish Cypriots argue
By Fahri Zihni
Following the Pile (Pyla)-United Nations incident on August 18, when the building of ...