New York, May 19 (JEN): The International Labour Organization (ILO) on Monday warned of widespread insecurity in the global employment market, saying that some 75 per cent of all workers are ...

Mumbai, May 18 (JEN) Aruna Shanbaug, a former nurse who lived in a vegetative state in a Mumbai hospital since her brutal sexual assault in 1973 on its premises and was a subject of debate o ...

New York, May 16 ((JEN): The United Nations human rights chief on Friday urged governments in Southeast Asia to take swift action to protect the lives of migrants stranded in precarious mari ...

New York, May 15 (JEN): A new United Nations ‘Free & Equal’ campaign video highlighting the diversity of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community is being s ...

New York, May 6 (JEN): The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) launched on Tuesday a website dedicated to the issue of albinism aimed at debunking the myt ...

New York, May 1 (JEN): The outgoing United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia on Thursday noted that the country has come a long way over the past six ye ...

New Delhi, Apr 25 (JEN) Greenpeace India on Saturday said the Indian government’s steps to 'clampdown on dissenting voices' will undermine India’s standing in the global community of dem ...

New Delhi, Apr 24 (JEN) The Upper house of the Parliament on Friday unanimously passed a Private Member's Bill moved by Rajya Sabha MP Trichy Siva to protect the rights of the transgenders.

New York, Apr 24 (JEN) On the heels of a two-day United Nations High-Level meeting on Promoting Tolerance and Reconciliation, Fostering Peaceful, Inclusive Societies and Countering Violent ...