The United Nations' highest court on Wednesday said countries must address the "urgent and existential threat" of climate ...

Human Rights Watch leverages our research on countries and issues addressed at the United Nations to inform UN officials and member states of key findings, influence policy on a wide range of ...

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

Judges with the United Nations’s top court say in a landmark climate decision that a “clean, healthy and sustainable environment” is a human right.

The U.S. imposes sanctions on Francesca Albanese over her critical stance on Israel's actions in Gaza. Learn more here.

The United States said on Wednesday it was imposing sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the United Nations' special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, who has been ...

Here are some of the United Nations' history-making events as the world body marks the anniversary of its founding on June 26, 1945, when the U.N. Charter was signed by 50 countries in San Francisco.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday announced Washington was sanctioning the United Nations special expert on the Palestinian territories, following her criticism of Washington policy ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio slapped Treasury sanctions on United Nations Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese on Wednesday, saying her bid to drag American and Israeli ...

Recently freed Belarusian dissident Siarhei Tsikhanouski is demanding the international community act to secure the release of the remaining 1,150 political prisoners.

According to Faridah Ally, a Youth Advisory Board Member at the United Nations Human Rights, intervention is not automatic, and a specific process must be followed.