In May 2025, the United Nations Peacekeeping Ministerial took place in Berlin, gathering over 130 Member States and ...

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | State Minister for Internal Affairs, David Muhoozi, has reaffirmed the government’s commitment to protecting human rights, as the country prepares for the 2026 ...

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

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

One year since deployment of the first personnel of the United Nations-authorized Multinational Security Support (MSS) ...

Promoting respect for human rights is a core purpose of the United Nations and defines its identity as an organization for people around the world. Member States have mandated the Secretary ...

The UN Human Rights Council describes itself as “an inter-governmental body within the United Nations system responsible for strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights around the ...

United Nations' High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet adjusts her mask during the opening of 45th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European U.N. headquarters in Geneva ...

9 April 2020 — As concerns grow about how the coronavirus crisis might threaten human rights around the world, the United Nations is calling on countries to adopt a more cooperative, global and ...

Indonesia has frequently obstructed global human rights enforcement by rejecting proposals to strengthen the UNHRC and blocking the council’s requests to assess the human rights situation in Papua.

The United Nations has undercut protection of basic individual human rights by prioritizing the political interests of special identity groups. The Trump Administration can help restore the proper ...

The U.N. high commissioner for human rights, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, speaks in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on February 9. Amnesty International's annual report warns that the U.N. isn't doing enough to ...