WHO programme promotes patient safety in African hospitals
Hospitals are places where people go to be healed, but sometimes that’s where their health and safety are compromised.
Hospitals are places where people go to be healed, but sometimes that’s where their health and safety are compromised.
"Modern stereotypes of indigenous identity do not define us as indigenous peoples, but oppress us from reaching our full potential as leaders in our communities," wrote Steven Brown, an aborigine from Australia.
As the French and Malian forces continue to retake towns from rebels in northern Mali, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) is preparing for a possible return of displaced people to their homes.
Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory are a symbol of the lack of justice experienced by Palestinians, a human rights body contends.
Andrea Landry, a proud representative of the Anishinaabe, one of the First Nations or indigenous people of North America, is at the UN for the first international expert group meeting for indigenous youth which wraps up on Thursday.
It’s almost two years that the crisis in Syria continues, in what started as protests and evolved into an armed confrontation between the government and opposition fighters.
The United Nations estimates that more than 60,000 people have been killed in the ongoing violence.
More than $1.5 billion have been pledged to support the global humanitarian effort in Syria.
The indigenous people’s language and culture are being threatened, says Meenakshi Munda, an indigenous youth from the Munda community of Jharkhand, India.
The first international expert group meeting on indigenous youth has brought young people from around the world to UN headquarters in New York.
During the three-day meeting, indigenous young people are analyzing how they can benefit from human rights standards and policies.