Uyghur activists and human rights groups expressed outrage on Thursday over the voting down of a U.S. proposal that the United Nations Human Rights Council hold a debate on a recent report by the body’s rights chief on abuses in China’s Xinjiang region
United Nations Security Council meeting on peace and security in Africa is presided over by Michel Xavier Biang, Permanent Representative of Gabon to the UN and President of the Security Council for October
Investigators in Indonesia formally charged a former police inspector general and his wife Wednesday with the murder of a subordinate at his home, in a scandal that has shone a spotlight on excesses by members of the national force.
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama called on Tibetans this week not to lose heart amid harsh COVID restrictions imposed by China in the formerly independent Himalayan country.
Despite air sirens that continue to interrupt lessons, millions of students in Ukraine are returning to the classroom. Teachers are working arduously to rebuild and bring normalcy to children’s lives as more than 2,000 school buildings around the nation have been destroyed. The local school and kindergarten were destroyed by Russian occupiers in the village of Bohdanivka near Kyiv
Gunmen on a motorbike in Metro Manila shot dead a radio commentator who had criticized President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and his predecessor, colleagues and police said about the latest in a long line of killings of journalists in the Philippines
At least 145 people have died while being interrogated by authorities in Myanmar over the 19 months since the military seized control of the country in a coup, according to an investigation by RFA Burmese
The Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nations, Mohammed Hussein Bahr Aluloom, addresses before the Security Council about the situation in Iraq
The National Institute of Music of Afghanistan presented its first concert in Lisbon, Portugal, its new home.Despite being unable to perform in their homeland, exiled school members are committed to preserving Afghan music
Despite coming from a family of Cuban revolutionaries, Abraham Jiménez Enoa chose to report the truth rather than live that life.He is currently living in exile, just as many other independent voices from Cuba