Today, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) expressed concern at the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights’ ...

Human Rights Watch Submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee During its Periodic Review of Vietnam under the ICCPR at its 144th Session.

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

The Venezuela government-allied National Assembly unanimously declared United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ...

Human rights obligations do not apply to national governments alone. There are dozens of self-identified “ human rights ...

The Trump administration can still project a meaningful vision of human rights that is reconcilable with its focus on the security of American citizens.

The United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday rejected a bid by Eritrea to end the mandate of a U.N. expert investigating alleged abuses in the country, in a relief to Western diplomats who feared ...

The statement, prepared jointly with Human Rights Center "Viasna" and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), condemns the ongoing unlawful imprisonment of over 1,100 individuals in Belarus, as ...

Terrorism Without Terror? by Dr Jayampathy Wickramaratne, President’s Counsel In Part 1 of this article, the writer argued ...

United Nations Human Rights chief Volker Türk expressed alarm over escalating violence in Haiti on Friday, as gangs expand territory and continue to commit extrajudicial homicides, kidnappings and ...

The United Nations has long mobilized efforts against hatred to defend human rights and promote the rule of law, recognizing hate speech’s impact across areas such as peacebuilding, gender ...

The decision means that the group called Palestine Action will be banned as a terrorist organization in Britain while its ...