There have been many memorable moments in the 80-year history of the United Nations at its headquarters in New York and at ...

Venezuela’s ruling party-controlled National Assembly has declared Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for ...

Human Rights Watch Submission to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Concerning the Treatment of Imprisoned Women in Japan, November 2024 ...

When the United Nations was born in San Francisco on June 26, 1945, the overriding goal of the 50 participants who signed the ...

Review and Outlook: The Secretary-General abandons Israel, a state the U.N. helped to create. Images: Zuma Press/AP/Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly The United Nations is suffering from acute ...

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.

Ad Policy Former United Nations human rights chief and current head of an international commission of inquiry into alleged crimes committed during the latest conflict between Israel and the ...

GENEVA — For the first time in nine years, the United Nations Human Rights Committee this week reviewed U.S. compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). The ...

This month marks 75 years since the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) the document that has become the blueprint for our international ...

Human Rights Watch urges that right to return be recognized for all displaced people in the Middle East, regardless of religion or nationality. Relevant Background United Nations General Assembly ...

12/10/2023 December 10, 2023. The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 75 years ago today. Germany marks the occasion at a time when those rights are ...