By AFP/Lisa GoldenUnited Nations rights chief Volker Turk on Wednesday said transitional justice was "crucial" for Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, during the first-ever visit by someone in his post to the country.Since Islamist-led rebels se...

By UN NewsSyria’s lethal legacy of landmines and other explosives left over from years of conflict has led to the deaths of over 100 children in the last month alone, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday, calling on the international commu...

By UN NewsSurging gang violence in Haiti has caused a threefold rise in the number of people uprooted from their homes in a year, the UN migration agency, IOM, said on Tuesday, in a call for “sustained humanitarian assistance right now to save and pr...

By UN NewsThe President of the UN General Assembly Philémon Yang presented a detailed vision of his 2025 priorities for the world body on Tuesday, calling it an opportunity for “a new start.”Under the theme Unity in Diversity, he emphasised the need...

By AFP/Laure Al KhouryLebanon's new Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said Tuesday that he was reaching out to all political persuasions to help "rescue" his crisis-hit country ahead of talks aimed at forming a government.After two years of a caretaker admi...

By AFPSpain's Canary Islands feel "abandoned" as irregular migrant arrivals smash records and the political class lacks "solidarity", the region's leader said in an interview published on Monday.Reception centres in the Atlantic archipelago are strai...

By AFP/Eric RANDOLPHActivist Maria Sarungi Tsehai said Monday she was certain the Tanzanian government was behind her abduction the day before in Nairobi that was only foiled after a rapid intervention by rights groups.Sarungi Tsehai is a well-known...

By UN NewsThe UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk highlighted the critical role of human rights defenders in today's tumultuous global landscape in a speech on Monday to Wilton Park, the executive agency of the United Kingdom’s Foreign...

By AFPA worsening crackdown on independent media by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's government saw 46 journalists forced into exile and several arrested last year, a Costa Rica-based NGO reported Monday."In the last months of 2024, the governmen...

By AFP/Layal Abou RahalLebanese President Joseph Aoun on Monday picked international jurist Nawaf Salam to form a government to pull the war-scarred country out of economic crisis.A majority of Lebanese lawmakers endorsed Salam, the presiding judge a...

By AFP/Ruth EGLASHIsrael's far-right extremist Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Monday vowed to oppose any deal to end the Gaza war, while a senior Palestinian official said "significant progress" had been made in negotiations in Doha.Since early...

By AFP/Esteban ROJAS with Mariette LE ROUXVenezuelans protesting President Nicolas Maduro's return to power for a highly contested third term this week said they did not want a "Cuban-style dictatorship."But analysts say Maduro's methods borrow more...