Last week, the United Nations Human Rights Office issued its first ever guidance paper on “transnational repression,” aimed ...

United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights Elisa Morgera on Monday presented a new report to the General Assembly calling for the criminalization of spreading disinformation regarding the ...

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

Ghana’s parliament has reaffirmed its commitment to advancing human rights and upholding international obligations through robust engagement with the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process.

Latin America’s top human rights court has issued a groundbreaking advisory opinion linking states’ human rights obligations ...

Arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment -- particularly during recent elections -- are among ...

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | State Minister for Internal Affairs, David Muhoozi, has reaffirmed the government’s ...

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

An advisory opinion from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights also concluded that governments have special obligations to ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday that the United Nations Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4) should focus on promoting international tax cooperation to ...

He said his focus would include building the capacity of National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) to be able to meet the ...

This brief is based on an extensive analysis of how human rights treaty bodies have engaged with individual states’ ...