The onset and severity of disability – affecting either physical or mental health – profoundly impacts the lives of people and their families and incurs large economic and societal costs in terms of ...

GENEVA — The climate crisis is threatening the right to life, the UN human rights chief warned Monday, as a heatwave roasted southern Europe. Volker Turk hit out at fossil fuel companies, saying they ...

What does it take to stay calm in the crossfire? Unaisi Vuniwaqa has witnessed terrible suffering. As the Assistant Secretary-General for Safety and Security, she has worked as a UN peacekeeper in ...

United Nations human rights experts said Tuesday that a US strike on a vessel alleged to be operated by “narco-terrorists” violated the right to life. The statement follows the deadly incident in ...