In 2007, researchers at University of Gothenburg, Sweden published the first in a series of studies showing massive pollution with antibiotics from pharmaceutical factories in India. In connection ...

The U.S. rejected a United Nations political declaration Thursday about combatting chronic disease and promoting mental health because of language the Trump administration said was objectionable.

The recent declaration by the United Nations General Assembly, which recognises the 'trafficking of enslaved Africans and racialised chattel enslavement of Africans as the gravest crime against ...

Civil society organisations have warned that efforts to strengthen global action on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and mental health are at risk, as powerful industry lobbying threatens to weaken a ...

UNHCR welcomes Colombia's decision to support to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People as a significant step forward in efforts to protect indigenous groups in the context ...

The seventy-fifth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in December 2023 was an opportunity to re-examine the work of Eleanor Roosevelt and her colleagues in the United Nations as ...