Human Rights Chief, Volker Türk, expressed alarm over escalating violence in Haiti on Friday, as gangs expand territory and ...

The United Nations Human Rights Office faces a dire financial crisis with a shortfall of at least $60 million this year due ...

Gaza became a “graveyard of international law” not just for Palestinians but for all people, says a Palestinian lawyer.

The U.N. General Assembly is expected to vote on a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the release of all ...

A panel of independent experts who make up the United Nations Human Rights Committee says they have found that Guatemala violated the rights of a 14-year-old girl who was raped and forced to continue ...

United Nations rights chief Volker Turk said on Wednesday that his office was “shocked” by evidence of severe human rights violations at detention sites run by the SSA, a group once led by ...

The Permanent Mission of the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations in Geneva and the Universal Rights Group, a human rights policy think tank, launched a new initiative in Geneva aimed at ...

Their fight for justice, peace, security – their freedom – is the same fight that gave birth to the United Nations eighty years ago and underpins the human rights law we claim to defend.

Pippa Scott, the actress who appeared in films like 1958's six-time Oscar-nominated Auntie Mame and 1956's The Searchers, has ...

The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 31 Other non-governmental organizations in calling on the United Nations Human Rights Council to condemn grave human rights violations in Eritrea ...

UN rights chief warns of $60 million funding shortfall The United Nations Human Rights Office faces a dire financial crisis with a shortfall of at least $60 million this year due to funding cuts ...