US Immigrant Families Push for Reform
Advocates for immigrant rights are calling on President Barack Obama to suspend deportations of otherwise law-abiding residents who are undocumented while Congress considers reforming the nation's immigration laws.
Saudi Arabia: Terrorism Law Tramples on Rights
The Saudi government’s new terrorism law violates the right to due process and a fair trial, Human Rights Watch said. The law’s serious flaws include vague, overly broad provisions that allow authorities to criminalize free expression and the creation...
Afghanistan: UN official says women’s participation ‘key measure’ of election’s success
Special Representative and head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Ján Kubiš.
Joint PSI-EI statement on LGBT rigths violations
Sexual abuse, early marriage, forced recruitment among concerns highlighted by UN child rights body
Children in Dammaj village, northern Yemen, are cut off from food and healthcare.
First UN report on children in Syria’s civil war paints picture of ‘unspeakable’ horrors
Syrian children shelter in the doorway of a house, amid gunfire and shelling, in a city affected by the...
Parliament calls for EU roadmap to protect fundamental rights of LGBTI people
The EU should draw up a roadmap to protect the fundamental rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people, says a resolution adopted by Parliament on Tuesday. In the 2013 EU LGBT survey, the EU Fundamental Rights Agency...
UN action in South Sudan has saved thousands of lives, says peacekeeping chief
Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Hervé Ladsous (second right) on a visit to the...
UN seeks $2 billion in international aid for Africa’s Sahel region
Mother and child in hospital in Cameroon’s Maroua town. Malnutrition in the country affected some 58,000 children...
Central African Republic: UN calls on donors to close massive funding gap
Food aid arriving at an IDP camp in Bangui, Central African Republic.
