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UN Development Programme (UNDP)
UNHCR and UNDP launch new partnership to advance inclusion, solutions for people forced to flee
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) today launched a new four-year partnership to …
Accountability Framework initiative (AFi)
NGOs launch new tool to help financial institutions address deforestation and human rights risks
The Accountability Framework initiative (AFi) supports asset managers, banks, investors, and pension funds to identify and manage material …
Young people from around the world joined Member States and United Nations leaders for an interactive dialogue on …
All #human rights Press Releases
11 March 2026
the World Bank Group
Women’s economic opportunity laws only half-enforced globally: study
19 January 2026
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
How climate change is threatening human rights
9 January 2026
4 January 2026
15 December 2025
14 October 2025
6 October 2025
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Environmental damage in Gaza harming human health, threatening long-term food, water security: UNEP
15 September 2025
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Record military spending threatens global peace and development, UN warns
2 September 2025
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Catalysts for change: The rising impact of national human rights institutions
25 August 2025
16 April 2025
15 April 2025
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
Overcoming the past: Cambodia's push for universal civil registration
8 April 2025
10 March 2025
16 February 2025
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