Reforms passed by Ecuador’s National Assembly and signed by President Daniel Noboa severely threaten children’s rights and fail to protect children who are recruited or used by organized crime groups, ...

Police search people bus passengers during the state of emergency in Santa Ana, El Salvador, June 30, 2022. © 2022 MARVIN RECINOS/AFP via Interviews with police officers and internal police documents ...

And my own country did not have a space for me.

The risk of harmful algal blooms can be reduced. The biggest drivers of the increase are farm fertilizer and climate change.

Even the memorial to Queen Victoria, undoubtedly the most commemorated woman in British history, is relatively modest in scale compared to this new project.

Every December in Nigeria and Ghana a giant party takes place, unfolding in a whirlwind of concerts, festivals, weddings, art shows, dress-ups, meet-ups and travel. Locals and dia ...

A team of geoscientists suggest new ways to forecast evolving hazards in real time as cascading disaster risk worsens.

Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are increasingly being subjected to forced displacement and land seizures, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, has reported.

The beams are on”. The message prefigured a consequential intervention – not only in Iranian domestic affairs but potentially in the geopolitics of the Middle East. The US billionaire was responding ...

A major factor in that downshift has been the concurrent rise in the polarization between the two major political parties. Supporters of Republicans and Democrats are far more likely than in the past ...

It wasn’t an average Thursday morning in Manhattan. In the early hours, UN diplomats (and UN News) hit the streets in their sneakers – from Times Square to East River – following a route that traced ...

In Pride and Prejudice (1813), when heroine Elizabeth Bennet arrives at Netherfield Park with “her petticoat six inches deep in mud”, she walks not only through the fields of Hertfordshire, but into ...