Civilians left in Sudan's El-Fasher after its capture by paramilitary forces are living without water or sanitation, haunted ...

US Justice Department officials denied redacting the Epstein files to protect Trump, as criticism mounted over censored ...

Nearly a million young Ukrainians are still living in an eternal lockdown, doing either all or part of their lessons online.

More than 1,000 patients have died while waiting for urgent medical evacuation from war-ravaged Gaza in the last year and a ...

Chatting and laughing, Maria Abreu strolled with her friends under the Christmas lights adorning a boulevard in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas. Anything, she said, not to think of the threat of war ...

Despite major gains in education and reducing poverty in recent decades, entrenched inequalities are eroding trust in institutions and democratic systems around the world, the UN warned Tuesday.

There’s a good reason half the country didn’t believe President Donald J. Trump when he claimed he didn’t conspire with the Russians; the claim was mixed in with too many lies on too many important ...

One thing that nearly all observers of the American economy (and other developed countries around the world) can agree on is that income inequality has increased considerably in recent decades. The ...

Many people imagine that countries with authoritarian regimes are horrifying places, with populations ruled by terror and indoctrinated to blind obedience by some ...

The political status of Puerto Rico is a long-standing issue that requires urgent action. The island, an unincorporated territory of the United States, is neither a sovereign nation nor a U.S. state.

States with abysmal human rights records seek election to the UN Human Rights Council not to advance human rights but to block their realization. This cynical behavior is an aberration that needs to ...