Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday appointed Volker Türk of Austria as the next United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, following approval by the General Assembly.  

People have had to line up in Jackson city, Mississippi, in the United States, to receive drinking water as running water is cut amid a years-long water pollution problem in the region.

Israeli military forces have shot and killed a young Palestinian man during a raid on a refugee camp in the northeastern part of the West Bank, amid escalating tensions across the occupied territories as the Israeli military is pressing on with its heavy-handed clampdown and repressive measures.

Racism is difficult to discuss in the context of Swedish healthcare for various cultural and administrative reasons. Herein, we interpret the fragmentary nature of the evidence of racialising processes and the difficulty of reporting racist discrimination in terms of structural violence.

Iranian citizen Hamid Nouri, who was arrested and tried in Sweden, has highlighted that the hardest anti-human rights pressure on him is continuing in Sweden.

Sara Bahmanyar, an Iranian athlete, won the silver medal at the Baku 2022 Karate 1-Premier League in Azerbaijan.

Four high-profile shootings in U.S. cities this week drew headlines but masked the daily toll of gun violence in some of the same communities

There is serious and rising concern and outrage among the European public over the cost of living fueled by higher energy prices and approaching winter.

WhatsApp has become the latest social media platform to block Palestinian access to its service, with Palestinian journalists, activists and public figures saying they have been unable to access the messaging application.

The Saudi-led coalition forces and their mercenaries have violated a UN-brokered nationwide truce that took effect in the war-ravaged Yemen in April nearly 200 times over the past 24 hours .