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HRW says Asmara’s move was an effort to distract from independent reporting on the ‘country’s dire rights record’.
The Philippines highlighted the normative and institutional frameworks the government built for the protection of overseas ...
GENEVA -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 ...
We go to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, where activists are shining a light on Morocco’s brutal occupation 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.
There are many things that happened in this war that are clearly war crimes,” Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, says about Israel’s war on Gaza. Democracy Now!'s Amy ...
Geneva: Secretary-General of the National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) HE Sultan bin Hassan Al Jamali called on the United Nations Human Rights Council to adopt the outcomes of the Doha ...
The U.N. Human Rights Council voted on Monday to renew the mandate of an LGBT rights expert, a move welcomed by advocates ...
CARACAS - Venezuela's government-allied National Assembly on Tuesday unanimously declared United Nations High Commissioner ...
Arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment -- particularly during recent elections -- are among ...
Ten years after the Chinese government’s widespread crackdown on human rights lawyers, concerned governments and the United Nations should establish an independent, international investigation into ...