COMMENTARY: Mary Ann Glendon, in a recent lecture, offered insights that can help us reflect on their value today.

Activists, officials and defectors highlighted human rights violations in North Korea at a high-level meeting of the United ...

Geneva, Switzerland - The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), the Saudi Human Rights Commission (HRC ...

The Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo must lead protection of internally displaced persons across the ...

In the absence of national leadership, activists must build a durable human rights apparatus from the ground up.

Two women who fled North Korea have been telling the United Nations about the plight of people still living in the country ...

The United Nations rights chief urged on Friday for warring sides in South Sudan to pull back from the brink, warning that ...

Disagreements with European Court of Human Rights' interpretation of immigration law has stirred a debate over the treaty.

I am writing on behalf of Human Rights Watch in the context of your upcoming visit to Vietnam to raise grave concerns about ...

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s treatment of detained migrants should raise concerns for governments considering sending additional ...

The Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948 and sets out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights—adopted in 1948 by the United Nations General Assembly to set a framework for the ...