No evidence torture produces reliable info: former investigator
Torture is not only immoral and illegal, it is also counterproductive to effective intelligence gathering, an independent international security consultant has said.
Torture is not only immoral and illegal, it is also counterproductive to effective intelligence gathering, an independent international security consultant has said.
“Multiple and grave violations” of human rights have occurred across Crimea, since it was occupied by Russian forces in March 2014.
A life-saving medicine to treat HIV will now be made more widely available to millions of people in developing countries.
A UN worker in Geneva who is from one of the Caribbean islands devastated by Hurricane Maria has spoken of her fears for her family there, whom she has been unable to contact.
With conflict in Yemen grinding on, the health system and economy have collapsed, seriously jeopardizing “people’s ability to survive”.
Only an internationally-recognized and functioning peace agreement can end the suffering of millions in South Sudan.
A teacher and school-funder who helped the release of some of the Chibok girls from Boko Haram extremists in Nigeria, has been declared the winner of this year’s Nansen Refugee Award, sponsored by the UN Refugee Ag
New UN relief chief relays voices of displaced to world leaders
In a “landmark” resolution, the Security Council established a new team on Thursday to investigate alleged war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide committed by the terrorist group ISIL in Iraq.
Displaced people in Africa’s volatile Lake Chad region have an urgent request to the international community: we need your protection.