By AFPThe number of refugees and forcibly displaced people in west and central Africa has doubled since 2019, reaching nearly 14 million, the United Nations refugee agency said on Thursday.The figure has climbed from 6.5 million refugees and internal...

By AFPNorway's Rafto Prize, honouring human rights champions, was on Thursday awarded to imprisoned Cuban artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara, "for his fearless opposition to authoritarianism through art."The Rafto Foundation said that "Otero Alcantar...

By UN NewsThe imperative for global regulation of the booming artificial intelligence field, or AI, is “irrefutable”, a new report from a UN expert group said on Thursday, adding that development and use of such a technology “cannot be left to the wh...

By AFP/Glenn ChapmanA years-long analysis shows that social media titans engaged in "vast surveillance" to make money from people's personal information, according to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC).A report based on queries launched nearly fou...

By UN NewsLast October’s attacks by Hamas and other Palestinian groups on Israeli communities marked a devastating day for children, and the suffering has continued unabated, a senior UNICEF official said on Thursday.Ted Chaiban, UNICEF Deputy Execut...

By AFPLonger and more frequent heatwaves, soaring demand for air conditioning, and widespread disease: life in cities would become unbearable should the planet keep warming at current rates, researchers warned Thursday.The World Resources Institute (...

By UN NewsThe UN envoy supporting peace efforts between Israelis and Palestinians voiced grave concern over the growing risk of widescale regional escalation during a briefing to the Security Council in New York on Wednesday.“The series of explosions...

By UN NewsThe report details how this debt crisis is jeopardising progress aimed at ending AIDS in Sub-Saharan African countries, which account for a significant majority of people living with HIV globally – 25.9 million people of the nearly 40 milli...

By UN NewsRepeated Russian attacks on energy infrastructure and power cuts in Ukraine will likely uproot an additional 500,000 people ahead of the coming winter, UN human rights monitors said on Thursday.The alert from the UN Human Rights Monitoring...

By UN News/Eileen TraversIt’s the season to take on global challenges, from forging a healthier planet to putting the brakes on nuclear weapons, as world leaders and leading experts land at UN Headquarters in New York in mid-September for the General...

By UN News/Vibhu MishraA sharp escalation in fighting in Sudan’s El Fasher, along with ongoing clashes between rival military factions across the country, is heightening the risk of atrocities, including violence against women, and worsening the alre...

By AFP/Daniel AvisThe US Federal Reserve cut its key lending rate by half a percentage-point Wednesday in its first reduction for more than four years, sharply lowering borrowing costs shortly before November's presidential election.The Fed's decisio...