By AFP/Mohammad MazedIn Muslim-majority Bangladesh, vast crowds celebrate the biggest Hindu festival of the year under tight security, after a spate of attacks against the minority following the ouster of the autocratic premier.Whirling dancers jump...

By AFPA Spanish documentary extolling the virtues of the country's conquest of the Americas now showing in Mexico has added fuel to a politically charged debate over the legacy of colonialism."Hispanic America: A Song of Life and Hope" by Spanish dir...

By UN News/Vibhu MishraThe UN Secretary-General has stressed the vital role of education in protecting children and empowering them to build a disaster-resilient future.In a message marking Sunday’s International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, Antó...

By AFP/Hélène COLLIOPOULOUA brass sculpture of a naked man being garrotted, a monument evoking prison bars and a sign are the only hints this sleepy central Athens street once housed the Gestapo's headquarters.As Athens marks 80 years since its liber...

By AFPTikTok teams identified harmful effects of its platform on young users but limited preventive measures so as to avoid a drop in traffic, according to internal documents revealed Friday by a US public radio station.The documents, mentioned in a...

By UN NewsAs the world marked the International Day of the Girl Child on Friday, a town hall held at UN Headquarters provided an opportunity for young women activists to engage directly with policymakers and offer recommendations on what they need to...

By UN NewsWhen Ahmadi, a local storyteller on the Indonesian island of Simeulue, sings a lullaby to his one-year-old grandson, the song is not one about fairies and angels but rather about the precautions to take in a potential tsunami.The lyrics inc...

By AFPMore than 79 million women and girls across sub-Saharan Africa have endured rape and sexual assault as children, according to data presented by UNICEF on Thursday.The UN children's agency said newly collated data showed the region was among the...

By AFP/Laure al-KhouryLebanese Christian Joseph Jarjour was hoping for a peaceful retirement at home in south Lebanon, but has instead found himself caught in the crossfire of the Israel-Hezbollah war."We're trapped," said the 68-year-old retired tea...

By AFPThe UN said Friday that in the decade since it launched a campaign to end the limbo of statelessness, over half a million people without a nationality had acquired citizenship.In a report, the United Nations' refugee agency detailed the progres...

By AFP/Natsuko FukueChika Ezure faced gender bias from her own family when deciding to do a master's degree at Japan's top-ranked university. After arriving on campus, she realised the resistance she faced as a woman was commonplace.She was surrounde...

By UN NewsViolence against children remains a pervasive global issue, with up to a billion children vulnerable to various forms of abuse, according to United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children. In a r...