No United Nations body will be able to assist Bangladesh ... is the presence of the death penalty in our legal system. If capital punishment remains, the UN will be unable to cooperate." ...

UNITED NATIONS, Feb 25 (APP): The UN human rights chief on Tuesday called for a moratorium and abolition of the death penalty, warning about a “substantial increase” in global executions.

By Ritika Jain On the morning of January 20, anticipation filled the courtroom in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram district as the verdict was about to be delivered in the case where 24-year-old Greeshma ...

The United Nations and rights groups say capital punishment has no proven deterrent effect and have called for it to be abolished, but Singaporean officials insist it has helped make it one of ...

International efforts to eradicate the death penalty came into sharp focus at the Human Rights Council on Tuesday, where UN ...

The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights has for the second time in less that a year directed Tanzania to abolish the ...

International efforts to eradicate the death penalty came into sharp focus at the Human Rights Council on Tuesday, where UN ...

The camp lies four hours from Panama’s capital ... surging north trying to reach the United States. Now a reverse flow has started. Gehad Madi, a United Nations special rapporteur who was ...

Israel has cut off the entry of all food and other goods into Gaza in an echo of the siege it imposed in the earliest days of ...

The president has issued executive orders to secure the U.S. border and to reduce the number of refugees admitted in accordance with “the interests of the United States.” “The United States ...

What happened next was also surprising: After confessing to the abduction and murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks, they were spared capital punishment ... The 2023 United Nations Climate Change ...