Intergovernmental Organisations

Washington has rejected the latest United Nations Security Council draft resolution on the conflict, blocking a demand for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.

The United States has proposed an alternative draft United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a temporary ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza war and opposing a major Israeli ground offensive in Rafah in southern Gaza.

A group of women are stopping people in the streets of their community to help combat the rise of domestic violence in their region.

Rachael spent four months living a "nightmare" under state administration. She wants to speak about her experience, but it's illegal for us to show her face.

The WA Department of Communities says the child was found by chance and not as a result of the service's procedures.

Some of Australia's iconic and unique natural ecosystems are headed for irreversible damage if we keep emitting carbon at current rates, climate experts warn. But they're not necessarily the ones you might expect.

A leading expert warns Australia may not know the full extent of where fire ants have spread.

The Adelaide widow was a Communist Party delegate who visited the Soviet Union and met KGB spy Vladimir Petrov. She was also an ASIO secret agent.

A senior Indonesian military official announces the health test requirements for female cadets will no longer be different to those of their male counterparts

The people given powers to make life-and-death decisions for some of WA's most vulnerable people was never required to inform families their loved ones were dying or even dead, according to a report by the WA Ombudsman.

Starting this month high-performance Olympic, Paralympic and Commonwealth Games sports that receive government funding must submit a new Health Check to monitor wellbeing in sports.

There have been major delays, tit-for-tat between governments and a lack of information. But at least one expert says the bumps with the vaccine rollout should soon be smoothed out.

The WHO study into the origins of COVID-19 finds transmission of the virus from bats to humans through another animal is most likely scenario, but many questions are left unanswered.

The UN human rights office confirms the accuracy of remarks by independent UN expert Agnes Callamard in The Guardian alleging a senior Saudi official had made a threat against her.

A global environmental group has expelled one of its partner organisations. But why? And what's it got to do with China? Here are five quick questions, answered.

A UN-backed tribunal convicts one member of the Hezbollah militant group and acquits three others of involvement in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

Data from countries with advanced contract tracing measures seem to show the highly contagious virus is not being spread by those who are asymptomatic. The discovery is prompting officials in Singapore to begin easing restrictions.

Minutes after strolling through a park emptied by tear gas and riot police, Donald Trump called Scott Morrison to rope him into a heist on the G7 summit, writes Andrew Probyn.

Chilean President Sebastián Piñera says protests roiling the country have pushed him to call off two major international summits that his country had been scheduled to host.

The United Nations Human Rights Committee asks Australia to end the "existing situation of detention" for the Sri Lankan Tamil family from Biloela being held on Christmas Island.

A 12-year-old Arrente and Garrwa boy will speak in front of hundreds in Geneva, calling on the Australian Government to raise the age of criminality to stop children as young as 10 being locked up.

As capitals on both sides of the channel stress the need to avoid a "no-deal" Brexit, the former Conservative Prime Minister reminds Theresa May of the need for compromise.

A mental health advocate in regional NSW says some residents cannot access help until they have hit rock bottom, and is calling for an overhaul of services.

Only 17 per cent of UN staff and contractors completed the survey highlighting what was called "an ongoing sense of mistrust, perceptions of inaction and lack of accountability".

Victoria's hunting regulator has shortened this year's duck hunting season from 12 to nine weeks due to dry conditions impacting bird numbers.