UN-appointed independent human rights experts called on Thursday for Singapore to immediately impose a moratorium on the death penalty, saying the continued use of capital punishment for drug-related crimes runs contrary…
Humanity is “at a crossroads” when it comes to managing drought and accelerating ways of slowing it down must happen “urgently, using every tool we can”, said the head of…
On the very first International Day of Plant Health, marked on Thursday, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has called for more investment in innovation to boost food security, especially…
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday that it is committed to helping the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), respond to COVID-19, after its first declared infection was reported…
The UN Human Rights Council met in special session on Thursday in Geneva, prompted by increasing concern over atrocities committed against civilians, linked to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February. Amid…
What makes South Asia’s recent severe temperatures so surprising. Nearly one in eight people on Earth are enduring a relentless, lethal heat wave that is stretching into its third week.…
Introduction 1. Victims of large-scale human rights violations have a fundamental right to reparations grounded in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (“UDHR”)1 and international human rights treaties such as the…
The ICMGLT celebrates the U.S. House of Representatives passing a bipartisan resolution Tuesday aimed at awarding Benjamin Ferencz, the last living Nuremberg prosecutor, for his work collecting evidence of Nazi war crimes and leading…
On March 3, 1819, the U.S. Congress enacted the Civilization Fund Act, authorizing the President, “in every case where he shall judge improvement in the habits and condition of such…
Donors on Wednesday pledged $33 million towards a UN-coordinated plan to prevent an ageing oil tanker moored off the west Coast of Yemen from sparking a potential ecological and humanitarian…