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The UN's assistant secretary-general for human rights on Monday expressed concern about human rights abuses and the lack of respect…

 The United Nations launched a record humanitarian appeal on Monday, asking for $20.1 billion to help 87 million people in…

At least 30 percent of married women in Egypt were subjected to spousal abuse in 2014, according to a report…

The United Nations has urged Egypt to set a regular timetable for the opening and closure of the Rafah crossing…

Egypt has shrugged off a United Nations expression of “concern” over the recent fatal shooting of illegal African migrants who…

Iran on Thursday accused countries backing a UN resolution criticizing its rights record of spreading "Iranophobia" and said they should…

All sides in Libya's conflict are committing breaches of international law that may amount to war crimes, including abductions, torture…

Deaths of women from pregnancy-related causes have fallen by almost half across the world in the past quarter century, but…

World leaders have been urged to support development programs in Syria’s neighboring countries where the majority of Syrian refugees are…