Category: Human Rights

Across agencies, the UN is implementing AI tools to help promote peace, security and human rights while spearheading the global conversation around AI governance. By the book Six-year-old Ari in Jamaica has learning difficulties which make it difficult for him to study, but now AI technology is converting existing textbooks into interactive formats personalised to […]

Across agencies, the UN is implementing AI tools to help promote peace, security and human rights while spearheading the global conversation around AI governance. By the book Six-year-old Ari in Jamaica has learning difficulties which make it difficult for him to study, but now AI technology is converting existing textbooks into interactive formats personalised to […]

The initiative, called The Promise, comes at a time when more than 41 million refugees remain displaced worldwide, as conflicts continue to uproot families and place growing pressure on asylum systems and the countries hosting those seeking safety. Led by UN High Commissioner for Refugees Barham Salih, the initiative aims to build a broad coalition in support […]

“The United States Will Need International Law” A chapter by Gerald L. Neuman, HRP Director and J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law, titled “The United States Will Need International Law” is featured in the new collection America Unfinished: 250 Years of Law and Governance. In the wake of rising global authoritarianism […]

Fourteen newborns died in a fire on August 26 at one of Pakistan’s largest public hospitals, and their shattered families are asking how this could have happened. The preliminary inquiry report found that the neonatal ward at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences in Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital, had no fire alarm or sprinkler system, and that […]

EU firefighting support to Serbia has been extended until 5 September, with 4 helicopters from the rescEU strategic reserve in Czechia, Romania and Slovakia and a ground firefighting team from Romania remaining deployed, as wildfires continue and strong winds are forecast in affected areas. The severe wildfires affecting the Deliblato Sands Special Nature Reserve and […]

Volker Türk was speaking as a new report was released by an independent UN fact-finding mission which found that human rights in the country – especially for minorities – have hit a new low. Myanmar is locked in a brutal civil war between the military and various resistance groups. In August 2017, Myanmar’s military conducted […]

The UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) issued an alert* on Tuesday over the rapidly expanding, multibillion-dollar criminal industry that turns job seekers into forced cybercriminals. International enterprise  “We’re seeing victims from over 80 different countries being trafficked into the scam centres, which are specifically playing out across Asia,” said Amy Pope, IOM Director General, […]

Presumed Consent, Absent Notice: Russia’s Organ Transplant Law Before the European Court of Human Rights On October 17, 2017, Pavel Mardari died in a Moscow hospital after five days in a coma following a car accident. His family had visited him daily, brought items from a list the hospital provided, and had been assured just […]

The government-controlled municipal court in Phnom Penh on September 2, 2026 sentenced three activists to seven years in prison for allegedly plotting against the government. They were 25-year-old student leader Thy Thorn and two political opposition activists, Soeung Kunthea and Mean Chanthon. Kunthea and Chanthon were arrested in Thailand in November 2024 and summarily deported […]