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Violence in Iraq left at least 1,420 people dead in August as Iraqi forces fought to regain areas overrun by…

Egypt defended its judicial system at the United Nations on Wednesday amid a global outcry over the jailing of Al…

An Israeli minister on Wednesday warned of punitive action if the Palestinians pursued efforts to join UN agencies, as hopes…

War-torn South Sudan is in a "spiralling humanitarian crisis", the UN warned Monday, as top aid chiefs visited the young…

 United Nations human rights investigators have added to their list of suspected war criminals from both sides in the Syrian…

The head of a United Nations inquiry said on Monday it was seeking to establish who should face prosecution for…

All sides in Syria's civil war are using shelling and siege tactics to punish civilians and big powers bear responsibility…

China rejected what it said was "unreasonable criticism" of Beijing in a new UN report on human rights abuses in…

Syria's government and its enemies come face to face on Wednesday for the first time as world powers try to…

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met with Bahey Eldin Hassan, Co-founder and Director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies,…