8 March 2017
Urgent attention, creativity and cooperation are needed to address online gender-based abuse, but authorities should be careful to avoid curtailing freedom of expression in doing so, two United Nations human rights experts said today.
Politics
Photo:Wide view of the Security Council.
Photo:A UN peacekeeper outside the big mosque of Timbuktu, Mali.
Photo:Pakistani migrants in Kos, Greece, showing a map he received with information about the closure of Hungary border and suggesting to go through Croatia instead.
Photo:Women and girls in the garment industry are often subject to forced overtime and low wages, and on domestic workers because of the unprotected nature of their work.
Photo:Elderly people have been particularly hard hit by the conflict in Eastern Ukraine.
Photo:People participate in a protest against the Trump administrations's travel ban outside Terminal 4 at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York, on January 28, 2017.
Photo:IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano (left) arrives for the 1453rd Board of Governors Meeting. IAEA, Vienna, Austria, 6 March 2017.
Photo:Security Council representatives speak to journalists during the Council's first ever visit to Niger.
Photo:Bangladeshi peacekeepers serving with the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA).