GENEVA (4 October 2024) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Friday welcomed the announcement that, following two years of negotiations, the United Kingdom and Mauritius agreed to ...

At this point in history, the United States is the world’s only superpower. Nowhere is that more apparent than in the number ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution or war at home. Since 1950, we have faced multiple ...

It was a spectacular example of a non-event, alloyed by pure symbolism and cynicism.  Here was a British government offering – how generous of them – to return sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, ...

To add insult to injury, not only has Britain promised to give the islands to Mauritius, which sold them in 1965 for £3 ...

The United Kingdom agreed on Thursday to give up control of islands that hold a secretive U.S. military base to ...

The U.K. will maintain de facto control over Diego Garcia, and the crucial U.S. military facility there, for another 99 years ...

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) expressed its support for the UK-Mauritius Chagos archipelago agreement and said that ...

After more than half a century of dispute, the United Kingdom reached a “historic agreement” with Mauritius on Thursday ...

Washington said the deal protected the long-term, secure and effective operation of the strategic military base.

Other large British Overseas Territories include the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Gibraltar, the British Virgin Islands and ...

When we said Monday that the contest “pits them against each other in a battle to crown the chonkiest bear,” we didn’t mean ...