The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has warned that without urgent guardrails, AI risks deepening inequality, amplifying bias and fuelling real-world harm.

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) carried out ethnically targeted killings, widespread sexual violence and enforced disappearances during their late-October takeover of El Fasher in Sudan’s Darfur region ...

Increased Israeli attacks and the forced transfer of Palestinians have sparked concern over ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said in a report ...

En réaction au verdict de culpabilité et à la peine de réclusion à perpétuité prononcés contre l’ancien président sud-coréen Yoon Suk Yeol pour avoir instauré la loi martiale en décembre 2024, Sarah B ...

People living with complex chronic conditions are poorly served by our health-care system, which was designed to care for acute illness.

Ethical consumption does not fail because consumers are indifferent or hypocrites, but because ethical choices often feel financially out of reach.

But a recent study suggests that the menopause could play a key role in increased vulnerability to Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers at the University of Cambridge analysed brain scans from nearly ...

Why has Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor been arrested, and what legal protections do the royal family have?

In response to the recent releases of people arbitrarily detained for political reasons and the discussion of a so-called ‘Amnesty Law’, Valentina Ballesta, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director of ...

New Zealand universities are slowly closing the pay gap, but men are still more likely to fill senior leadership roles in the highest pay brackets.

I don’t think I’ve ever laughed harder than during a church service, when something faintly ridiculous caught my eye. My friend saw it too, and once she started laughing, it became impossible to stop.

The inaugural meeting of Donald Trump’s board of peace in Washington on February 19 caps a busy week for US diplomacy – though, not necessarily for the country’s professional diplomats. These people ...