Justice systems should protect children
Children should not be locked up in gaols or given harsh sentences, including the death penalty.
Children should not be locked up in gaols or given harsh sentences, including the death penalty.
International Women’s Day is observed on 8 March annually to celebrate and highlight the achievements that women are making around the world.
The theme for this year is “Empower Rural Women, End Hunger and Poverty.”
Truly shocking.
That is how the UN Human Rights Office has described television footage reportedly showing the torture of hospital patients in Syria.
The devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan a year ago is chronicled in a photo exhibition at UN headquarters in New York.
Thirteen-year-old Molly invites the world into her world, as she chronicles her life in one of Kenya’s poorest slums.
She was given a video camera by the World Food Programme, which asked her to film scenes from her life at home and school.
Japan is hosting a series of free concerts to express its gratitude for the support it got following the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
The coconut is one of the easiest crops to grow requiring minimal care to thrive, but many rural women farmers are shut out of this lucrative business.
The tragic memories from last year’s devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan remain, but the rebuilding moves ahead according to the country’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN.
Journalists, human rights defenders and students activists world-wide are in dire need of protection.
That’s the finding of the annual report by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders.