The escalation of global challenges, including political violence, transnational crime, corruption, environmental crises, forced migration, health emergencies, disinformation and inequality, is ...

William Battle | United Nations Information Center, Washington D.C. Human trafficking is one of the most serious human rights violations of our time. It affects every country in the world—as a place ...

The Council today approved conclusions on the priorities of the European Union in United Nations Human Rights fora in 2025. The message from the conclusions is clear: the EU is committed to the ...

The United Nations flag flies at the U.N. headquarters in New York during the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 22, 2022. [AP/YONHAP] The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) will hold its ...

The United Nations human rights chief condemned Israel on Monday for "mass killing" of Palestinian civilians in Gaza and "hindering of sufficient lifesaving aid", saying the country had a case to ...

The United States won’t participate in a United Nations review of its human rights record, arguing engaging with the process ...

Key Takeaways The United States is not abandoning the fight for human rights, but rather realigning it with the original vision of America’s Founding Fathers. The United States should expect that ...

President Trump has signed an executive order pulling the U.S. out of the United Nations Human Rights Council. "I've always felt that the U.N. has tremendous potential. It's not living up to that ...

The Trump administration will not participate in the upcoming Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a mechanism of the United Nations ...

“There are many things that happened in this war that are clearly war crimes,” Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, says about Israel’s war on Gaza. Democracy Now!'s Amy ...