The United Nations champions human rights for all, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ+) people. Learn more about UN efforts to fight discrimination and promote equality.
Since President Ronald Reagan designated the first Thursday in May as the National Day of Prayer in 1988, the faith community celebrates the day as a time to come together and form a safe space to pray. The day is an opportunity for communities to gather and connect through shared beliefs.
Waibhav Anil Kale is the first international casualty from the organisation since Israel’s war on the besieged Palestinian territory began in October.
This week, President Joe Biden brought attention to anti-Semitism at schools across the globe-- which has been a growing problem due to the war in Gaza, and the local community has been finding ways to put an end to them.
Australia is at risk of becoming a money laundering haven, the attorney general says, with the federal government to allocate $170 million of budget funding for regulators to stamp out the practice. Lawyers, accountants, trust service providers, precious stone dealers and real estate agents may soon need to do due diligence on customers and report […]
BAPS volunteers proudly joined the United Nations' sixty-ninth Civil
President Bola Tinubu has called for a common front among African nations in the fight against challenges of terrorism and human trafficking bedevilling them. Tinubu said this when he received the new President of Senegal, Bassirou Faye, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Thursday. He said that West African nations must realign their purpose and […]
The Iraqi government has requested that the United Nations end a mission set up to promote governance and human rights reforms in the country by the end of 2025, the latest in a series of international bodies operating in the nation that Iraq has sought to wind down. The letter
Labour leader to promise to divert £75m to fund specialist force against smugglers using counter-terror powersKeir Starmer will promise to rip up the government’s Rwanda scheme and divert £75m to fund hundreds of new specialist officers to tackle people-smuggling with new counter-terror powers.At a speech on Friday in Dover – the home of Natalie Elphicke, who defected to Labour this week after criticising Tory failures on border security – the Labour leader will call the government’s plan “an...
The day marks the 100th anniversary of the first international soccer tournament in history with the representation of all regions, which took place on May 25, 1924
The day marks the 100th anniversary of the first international soccer tournament in history with the representation of all regions, which took place on May 25, 1924
Further to the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA's) release of 8 April, WADA wishes to provide an update regarding the compliance status of the Tunisian National Anti-Doping Organization (ANAD).