At least six people have been killed and more than 50 wounded in Afghanistan's northern city of Kunduz in an assault by Taliban fighters, according to a local official.

More than 3,500 children, most of whom were aged 13-17, were recruited by armed militant groups between 2013 and 2017 and have been used in the ongoing armed conflict in Northeast Nigeria, the UN children’s agency UNICEF said on Friday.

New counterterror laws likened to “thought crime” by a United Nations inspector have come into force.

Iranian Minister of Information and Communications Technology Mohammad Javad Jahromi and Head of United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) Simonetta Di Pippo reviewed promoting cooperation on satellite technology.

Outgoing Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi condemned a terrorist attack in Quetta in southwest Pakistan, which killed and injured dozens of people.

US President Donald Trump has warned the International Criminal Court (ICC) of "swift and vigorous response" if the Hague-based tribunal investigates Americans and Israelis for war crimes.

Independent UN rights experts on Thursday said the arrest of Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange by police in the United Kingdom, after the Ecuadorian Government decided to stop granting him asylum in their London embassy, exposed him to “the risk of serious human rights violations”, if extradited t...

France is guilty of human rights abuses of homeless people and laws guaranteeing a home for all fail to protect the most vulnerable, a UN special rapporteur said on Friday.

A prominent Palestinian human rights activist and cofounder of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement was denied entry to the United States on Wednesday, despite holding valid travel documents.

Regarding the recent measure taken by the US with regard to the Islamic Republic of Iran's IRGC, the HCHR has issued a statement and condemned this scornful decision.