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Woman and girls pay the “highest price” during conflicts like the one in Ukraine, the executive director of U.N. Women told CNBC.

The high court will hear the challenge to a Colorado law that bars businesses from refusing to serve customers based on their sexual orientation.

Ahead of the Beijing summer Olympics 14 years ago, Tibet was on fire

The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics are kicking off this week, and they’re marred in controversy for several reasons. The country’s strict censorship is making it difficult for media to cover the events, and its zero-COVID policy has resulted in widespread lockdowns, closing off neighborhoods in the capital city and mass testing 2 million people. The International Olympic Committee has also…

The U.N. says the situation in Myanmar has been worsening since the turn of the year, warning that people in the country are facing an unprecedented crisis.

A UN conference failed to agree on banning the use and development of so-called “slaughterbots” at a meeting in Geneva last week.

Formula One has faced criticism for allowing the Grand Prix to go ahead in Saudi Arabia this weekend.

A humanitarian effort seeks to monitor human rights violations and assist in the rescue of migrants fleeing Libya to Europe by boat on the Mediterranean Sea.

The Beijing Winter Olympics open in four months — just six months after the Summer Games wrapped up in Tokyo

Prior to the Taliban takeover, 80% of the Afghan government’s budget was funded by the U.S. and other Western donors.

Afghanistan’s tragedy will be less visible when the airlifts end, but the crisis will be a “daily reality for millions of Afghans,” the UN’s Filippo Grandi said.

Freedoms granted to Afghan women will be stripped away by the Taliban despite the group’s claims, Vanda Felbab-Brown of the Brookings Institution said.

The Biden administration has invited United Nations experts on racism to visit the United States in an effort to address racial justice and equality.

It’s the first time any diplomatic mission has flown a gay pride flag in the religiously conservative Arab Gulf, causing controversy.

Groups alleging human-rights abuses against minorities in China are calling for a full-blown boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.

More Saudi women are joining the workforce, according to a Brookings Institution report that said their participation rate rose from 20% to 33% in two years.

A leading human rights expert who is taking over leadership at Amnesty International is tackling vaccine equity as one of the major issues confronting the world today

Bitcoin mining is extremely energy intensive, and around 65% of the world’s bitcoin was mined in China as of April 2020, according to Statista.

Politico National Political Correspondent Gabby Orr explains how the GOP is pushing transgender legislation as part of its election strategy.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the United States will vie for a seat at the U.N.’s human rights body, which would cement a return to a Geneva-based body that was shunned by the Trump administration