The ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), the growing criticism towards paternalistic and coercive models of ...

Western democracies, including the UK, France, Canada and Australia, are facing backlash after allowing Iran and other authoritarian regimes to secure seats on influential United Nations (U.N.) bodies ...

The U.S., Israel and Argentina on Wednesday voted against a United Nations resolution led by Ghana to label the international slave trade as the “gravest crime against humanity” and call for ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly’s resolution on Wednesday declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans “the gravest crime against humanity” and calling for reparations is being ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday adopted a resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans "the gravest crime against humanity" and calling for reparations as "a ...

President John Mahama of Ghana, a sponsor of the UN resolution, is one of the African Union's most vocal supporters of slavery reparations - Copyright AFP Marco ...

The United Nations resolution was led by the president of Ghana. Israel and Argentina also voted against it. By Ruth Maclean Reporting from Dakar, Senegal The United States voted against a United ...

ABSTRACT: The word “inclusivity” has generally been limited to very specific social aspects, such as gender, ethnic equality, or economic equity. However, one sector of the population is often left ...

SEOUL—North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw a live-fire exercise for one of his top military priorities: an upgraded rocket launcher able to fire tactical nukes. In a Sunday report by state media, ...

LONDON, March 12 (Reuters) - Ghana intends to propose a United Nations resolution recognising transatlantic slavery as ‌the "gravest crime in the history of humankind" and calling for reparations, and ...

UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer at the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy on February 18. (Photo by Oliver O’Hanlon Photography) There are few people in the world who more closely ...

In early March 2026, after a Feb. 28 U.S.-Israeli joint attack on Iran that killed the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, social media users claimed that the United Nations Security ...