Efforts to end child marriage in Iraq are facing a serious threat, with the Iraqi Council of Representatives’ approval of amendments to Iraq’s Personal Status Law raising grave concerns that it risks ...

ERBIL – The United Nations in Iraq is expressing concern over recent amendments to the 1959 Personal Status Law approved by the Iraqi Council of Representatives. The UN is urging that legal reforms ...

On Tuesday, Trump’s nominee for ambassador to the United Nations, Rep ... Palestinian and Israeli authorities and human rights groups said. The Palestinian Authority prime minister’s office ...

Syria's Ahmed al-Sharaa has risen from rebel leader to interim president, after his Islamist group led a lightning offensive ...

ERBIL (Kurdistan24) – Iraq’s human rights commitments under the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process have been formally approved at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, with direct ...

From advancing human rights to combating climate change ... as well as proposed cuts in U.S. contributions to the United Nations and development assistance, suggest a weakening—if not ...

Then, in the spring of 2015, four years into the crisis — a time during which they continued to stubbornly believe in possibility, in human rights ... year by the United Nations high ...

In recent days, the Trump administration has taken steps to shutter the United States Agency for ... That’s not a development issue. It’s a human rights issue. What would you say to the ...

Donald Trump and his allies have often promoted him as antiwar. Yesterday Trump said that he wants the US to “own” Gaza and ...

Trump signed an order withdrawing the U.S. from the UNHRC, a 47-member international institution tasked with improving human ...

Israel has told the United Nations Human Rights Council that it is disengaging from the body, alleging it was biased, Foreign ...