The President of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Jürg Lauber, on Monday announced the appointment of a three-member Commission of Inquiry into the human rights situation in the provinces of S ...

Funding cuts are dismantling the frontline organisations working to end violence against women and girls, the UN’s gender equality agency warned on Monday ...

As Sudan\'s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) claims to have taken “complete control” of the 6th Infantry Division command in the besieged city of El Fasher, the Sudanese army’s main base in N ...

As Sudan’s destructive war – now in its third year – grinds on, the challenges to health systems are immense and women giving birth have been particularly impacted ...

Developing an effective International Convention to Prevent and Punish Crimes against Humanity will require ambitious and forward-looking diplomacy, Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Columbia Law School’s ...

The East African Community (EAC) has officially launched its Election Observation Mission (EOM) to observe Wedensday\'s General Elections in Tanzania ...

Mine Action Programme (UNMAS)  and the Libyan Mine Action Centre (LibMAC) have jointly conducted quality assurance procedures on the safe demolition of two to ...

The UN’s top humanitarian official has called for an immediate ceasefire in El Fasher, the capital of Sudan’s North Darfur region, amid reports of significant civilian deaths, attacks on hospitals ...

Sudan\'s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) claimed on Sunday that it has taken “complete control” of the 6th Infantry Division command in the besieged city of El Fasher, the Sudanese army’s mai ...

The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund (ADF), the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group’s concessional lending arm, has approved a loan of $73 ...

The UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says that hundreds of thousands of people have been affected by deadly floods across Niger ...