The UN human rights chief has expressed deep regret over the execution of a prisoner in the United States on Thursday night through the country s first ever use of nitrogen asphyxiation as a method of implementing the death penalty.
World leaders gathered in Geneva on Tuesday to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), calling for new guardrails to protect rights amid a surge of conflict and other challenges.
Gang violence in Haiti is on the rise with new alliances being forged and expansion into rural areas previously considered safe, warns a new UN report.
UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Thursday welcomed the Security Council call for pauses in the fighting in Gaza where doctors operate on screaming children without anaesthetic, using mobile phones for light , before appealing directly to the warring sides to lay down their weapons.
In eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), increasing armed violence, forced displacement and devastating floods have fuelled deadly disease outbreaks and jeopardized healthcare, the UN health agency (WHO) said on Friday.