A stellar jury that includes five Nobel Peace Prize winners, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem Pillay has chosen ten finalists for a ...

To establish these offices, the OHCHR negotiates a comprehensive mandate with host governments, encompassing both the protection and promotion of human rights ...

Human Rights Watch leverages our research on countries and issues addressed at the United Nations to inform UN officials and member states of key findings, influence policy on a wide range of ...

There has been an increase in killings of and attacks against Palestinians by settlers and security forces in the occupied ...

April 4 (UPI) --The United Nations on Thursday for the first time adopted a "groundbreaking" resolution that seeks to protect the human rights of people born intersex.On Thursday, the U.N.'s Human ...

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) will hold its first high-level meeting next week over human rights abuses and violations by North Korea, diplomatic and civic group sources said Monday.