Malaysia has agreed to hire 500,000 Bangladeshi workers over the next five years, with the first batch of documented workers from Bangladesh since 2018 due to leave later this month, a minister in Dhaka said Thursday
The wife of one of the Changsha Funeng NGO workers jailed in the central Chinese province of Hunan says he is being subjected to physical abuse and mistreatment in Chishan Prison
Edi Rama, Prime Minister of the Republic of Albania and President of the Security Council for the month of June, speaks to reporters before of the Security Council meeting on strengthening accountability and justice for serious international law violations
With hundreds of thousands of displaced Ukrainians living in and around Lviv, local football (soccer) academies are opening their doors to refugee children to help them divert their attention away from the war
Officials in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region opened long-closed mosques in the two cities visited last week by the United Nations human rights chief to give the appearance of normalcy despite a severe crackdown on the religion and culture of Muslim Uyghur residents, local police officers and government officials said
The open consultations of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to Resolution 1540 (2004) on the comprehensive review of the status of the resolution’s implementation are chaired by Juan Ramón de la Fuente Ramirez, chair of the 1540 Committee and Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations
Nigerian manufacturers say they are struggling to keep up with increased grain prices,Nigerian particularly wheat, as a result of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Nigeria had been battling with fuel and power shortages, as well as high inflation, even before the war started in February
Uyghur rights groups are calling for the United Nations human rights chief to resign after they said she reiterated Chinese talking points in a news conference about her trip to northwestern China’s Xinjiang region and failed to denounce the repression Uyghurs face there as a genocide