In these turbulent and sad times, it is hard to keep quiet about abuses and violations of human rights taking place around the world; in eastern DR Congo, South Sudan, Ukraine, and Gaza. Among the ...

When UN Secretary-General António Guterres appeared before the Rohingya refugees to join an iftar party in Ukhiya refugee camp, he was greeted by thousands.

After the lifting of a six-year moratorium on logging in public forests, trucks ferrying logs are seen on highways in ...

Faced with an impending cash crisis primarily due to non-payment of dues by the US and over 100 other member states– along ...

The Siddi community, descendants of slaves from Africa, is now becoming more involved with mainstream enterprises, including a forest homestay venture ...

In the “Pact for the Future”, adopted by consensus by the United Nations General Assembly last September, Member States came together to recognize these challenges and to agree on a series of ...

The Trump administration’s decision to abandon DEI—diversity, equity and inclusion— which was aimed at promoting fair treatment in the work place, is having its repercussions at the United Nations.

After three years of bloodshed, the people of Ukraine are in limbo as peace negotiations, instigated by the US President, remain unpredictable.

The recent student movement in Bangladesh demanding reform of the quota system for public jobs led a ‘march of the people’ ...

One look at the headlines recently and anyone would know that cuts to foreign aid are jeopardizing hard-won progress on a range of issues. AIDS is one of them. According to UNAIDS, without new ...

There was a time when four-year-old Taiba, a resident of Makril village in Bangladesh’s central Netrokona district, had little to smile about. The early years of her life were spent trying to cope ...

Since the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan nearly four years ago, human rights have begun diminishing for over 14 million women. Heightened gender inequality has exacerbated the pre-existing ...