On this Independence Day, as the United States reflects on its global standing, shifting alliances and emerging power blocs ...

Facing major funding cuts from the United States and others, the United Nations has been forced to shed jobs and start ...

Venezuela’s ruling party-controlled National Assembly has declared Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for ...

A new United Nations report has warned that governments are failing to uphold legal protections for women and girls, ...

Bishops' conferences and councils from Asia, Africa and Latin America (SECAM, CELAM and FABC) and the Pontifical Commission for Latin America have published a document calling for climate justice and ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a sweeping overhaul of U.S. foreign assistance on Tuesday, declaring that the U.S.

Latin America's top human rights court has issued a groundbreaking advisory opinion linking states’ human rights obligations ...

Member states must cooperate to tackle climate change and not take actions that set back environmental protections, the Inter ...

Catholic bishops from Asia, Africa and Latin America are demanding climate justice for the parts of the world most affected ...

THE INTER-AMERICAN Court of Human Rights has issued a landmark advisory opinion on linking governments’ human rights obligations to their responsibility to address the threat of climate change.

In a landmark advisory opinion, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled that governments have a legal obligation to ...

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