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The case for NZ joining the UK in sanctioning Israel over illegal West Bank settlements
Coordination Committee of Special Procedures calls for renewed support to mandate holders in challenging times: “We remain unbowed and undeterred”
United States must protect female prisoners from sex-based violence, privacy violations and retaliation, says Special Rapporteur
Türk calls for urgent, meaningful action to tackle unprecedented AI risks
UN Fact-Finding Mission calls for immediate cessation of hostilities after deadly US airstrikes hit civilians: Iran
European Union and FAO join forces to boost climate resilience of agrifood systems in Afghanistan
Save the Children calls on Australia to join allies in banning trade with illegal Israeli settlements in West Bank
UN expert: Participation of people essential for inclusive and sustainable development
Sentences against three activists regrettable: Hong Kong SAR
UN expert group to review 518 cases from 44 countries at 140th Session: Enforced disappearances
Relative Calm Ends as Yemen Enters ‘New, More Dangerous Phase’ of War, Special Envoy Warns Security Council
Nepal floods damage 1,800 hectares of crops and kill thousands of livestock
UN commission warns of growing risks to civilians and democratic transition as violence and impunity persist: South Sudan
Ice Age Origins Of One Of Humanity’s Oldest Drug Habits
Türk says “deafening silence” for suffering Afghans, urges renewed pressure
UN expert charts path to address proliferating unilateral sanctions and their human rights impacts
Trial By WhatsApp: Shift In Parent-teacher Relations
What really drives tourists to choose a hotel? New global study reveals the answer
Supporting First Nations Leadership At UNCCD COP17
UN expert calls for embedded multipolarity rooted in UN Charter to strengthen human rights
UN experts demand justice for killing of Agro-Environmental Judge Victor Claure Hinojoza: Bolivia
Women head one in four households in Gaza as war tears families apart and reshapes household structures
How ‘egalitarian’ Sweden became more comfortable with wealth
Killing of Palestinians in Gaza has been so widespread that women now head one in four households, double the pre-October 2023 rate
Accountability, inclusion, and non-recurrence central to successful transition, UN Syria Commisssion says: Syria
Australian Prime Minister Press conference – Parliament House, Canberra
New Gender Index reveals major economic opportunity in supporting women-led businesses
A year since Afghan women staff barred from entering United Nations premises across the country
Taliban policies denying Afghan children a future, warns UN expert
UN experts urge immediate halt to Christa Pike’s execution: USA
UN experts urge Pakistan to end persecution of Ahmadiyya community and uphold freedom of religion or belief
UN disability rights committee publishes findings on Chile, Lithuania, Qatar, Slovakia, and Sri Lanka
FAO Members celebrate 10th anniversary of landmark fisheries treaty
UN expert warns Israeli rubble-clearing could erase traces of atrocity crimes: Gaza
Monash’s Castan Centre for Human Rights Law advocacy prompts UN Human Rights intervention over Melbourne public housing towers
Ice cores, krill and ship-based science the focus for Australian Antarctic Program, conference told 7 September 2026
Winning Well: Research helping transform coach wellbeing in Australian high-performance sport
Labor slammed an “international human rights disgrace” as UN condemns public housing demolition 
9/11 anniversary: democracy was not doomed to fail in Afghanistan – the US did not live up to its promises
FAO hosts summit for sustainability of small-scale fisheries
New Adriatic Sea fisheries unit inaugurated in Split to strengthen science-based fisheries management
UN experts: Honduras must immediately halt mass evictions of peasant, Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities
UN expert on human rights defenders to visit the Marshall Islands
UN experts denounce student killing amid ongoing enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings of Baloch people: Pakistan
Israeli forces expelled Palestinian refugees from three West Bank camps, in violation of international law – UN report
Supply concerns drive FAO Food Price Index higher in August
UN Women at the 81st session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 81)
General Assembly Endorses the Creation of the new United Nations Institute for Capability and Learning Innovation through the Merger of UNSSC into UNITAR