Escalating conflict drives new displacement in Yemen
The escalating conflict in Yemen is choking off aid shipments and driving fresh displacement, including to nearby Djibouti, with UN agencies reporting on Tuesday...
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Security Council LIVE: Rising violence triggers emergency meeting on Yemen
Amid rising violence in Yemen, the Security Council has called an emergency meeting at 3pm (NY time) on Tuesday to discuss the situation in...
What’s Special About Negotiating Agreements for Mining Critical Minerals?
“Critical minerals” are critical in the eyes of firms and governments in industrialized countries because they are indispensable for products such as modern automobiles,...
September 11 and the End of the American Dream<br>The Day That Changed Everything
On 11 September 2001 I was in New York, on one of my frequent visits to the United Nations, to which I was tied...
Will the General Assembly Continue to be Subservient to the P-5 Refusing to Challenge the Nominee for UN Chief?
UNITED NATIONS, September 15 (IPS) – As the race for the election of a new Secretary-General (UNSG) gathers momentum, the spotlight is on the...
Transnational Repression: A World Without Refuge
On 24 August, I took part in a human rights conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Days before it opened, the city legislature cancelled the...
Countries must increase AI regulation to avoid ‘existential risks’: Türk
Voluntary self-regulation by companies developing frontier artificial intelligence (AI) is “nowhere near sufficient” to address existing harms and prevent advanced autonomous AI models from...
Civilians bear the brunt, with deadly US strikes in Iran and thousands displaced in Yemen
Independent UN human rights investigators called for an immediate cessation of hostilities on Monday following a series of United States airstrikes on Iran in...
Highly persistent toxic waste threatens ‘many, if not all, human rights’
Poor management of toxic chemicals and hazardous waste threatens “many, if not all, human rights,” the newly appointed independent human rights independent expert on...
Money sent home by migrants nearly doubles in a decade
Migrants sent $728.6 billion home to families in low and middle-income countries in 2025, nearly double the amount recorded a decade earlier, according to...
COP31: New Research Ties Extreme Weather to Mental Health Challenges in Africa 
The brain’s fear center moonlights as the save button for memories 
Europe’s Hera mission is ready to double down on asteroid science 
Gaza winter aid: ‘No more delay’, Fletcher tells governments stalling on support