UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on Friday for warring parties in Gaza to lay down their arms so that humanitarians can safely vaccinate more than half a million children against polio.

The United States has faced widespread condemnation for authorising the sale of more than $20bn in additional weapons to Israel as the top US ally wages war in the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli army has killed 2,100 Palestinian infants and toddlers under the age of two, out of the about 17,000 children it has killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of its genocide on 7 October 2023.

The Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, in a briefing to the Security Council, has called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, arguing that there is not safe place left for the Palestinians there as civilians are still being ordered to evacuate areas in the blockaded territory.

In response to the reports that the Biden administration is lifting its years-long suspension of “offensive” weapons shipments to Saudi Arabia, Elizabeth Rghebi, the Advocacy Director for the Middle East and North Africa .

A joint submission from the Runnymede Trust and Amnesty International UK to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination discovered that government legislation and policy infringes on key articles of the International Convention for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination – a ...

Canada's new chief human rights commissioner resigned before he even officially began the role, following an investigation into his appointment and controversy over past remarks he made about Israel.

The UN’s Special Rapporteur on Palestine, Francesca Albanese, has said “US funding of Israeli genocide” was “ballooning” as the Israeli army “uses ever more lethal bombs.”

The secretary of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights has urged the Foreign Ministry to pursue the extradition of Mohammad Javad (Sasha) Sobhani from Spain.

Coercion, assault, incitement to hatred: time and again, asylum seekers in Germany are the target of verbal or physical attacks. The regional focus is striking.