Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is defending oil exploration near the mouth of the Amazon River as a way to ...

The United Nations human rights office on Wednesday estimated that up to 1,400 people may have been killed in Bangladesh over ...

The United Nations has suspended humanitarian operations in northern Saada after rebels detained eight more U.N. staffers, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. assistance for managing and securing camps in northeastern Syria with Islamic State-linked ...

The unrest began as student-led protests against quotas in civil service jobs and escalated into a countrywide movement to ...

U.S. assistance for managing and securing camps in northeastern Syria with Islamic State-linked prisoners "cannot last ...

Officials from Bangladesh's former government and security apparatus systematically committed serious human rights violations ...

The U.N. food agency says one of its staffers detained last month by Houthi rebels in Yemen has died in prison.

The UN's human rights chief said on Wednesday there are reasonable grounds to believe officials of the former government of ...

Up to 1,400 people were killed in last year's anti-government protests in Bangladesh, most of them by security forces, the ...

The U.N. human rights office estimates that up to 1,400 people may have been killed in Bangladesh over three weeks last ...

The United Nations envoy for Syria on Wednesday called on its new authorities to prevent a "cycle of retribution and revenge" ...