Francesca Albanese has called on states at the UN human rights council to impose an arms embargo and cut off trade and ...

Human rights defenders rallied on Thursday to support the top U.N. expert on Palestinian rights, after the United States ...

To establish these offices, the OHCHR negotiates a comprehensive mandate with host governments, encompassing both the protection and promotion of human rights ...

Coinciding with the anniversary of the islandwide July 11 uprising in 2021 on Friday, the United States sanctioned Cuba’s ...

A Sudanese-Dutch businessman detained and tortured by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) at the outset of the war in Sudan is calling on the British and Dutch governments to sanction ...

Haiti has been caught in a vicious and unending cycle. First, gang violence expanded westward into the Artibonite and Centre ...

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

The Trump administration announced Wednesday that it is issuing sanctions against an independent investigator tasked with ...

Rubio accused U.N. Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese of leading “political and economic warfare” against the U.S. and Israel.

Latin America’s top human rights court has issued a groundbreaking advisory opinion linking states’ human rights obligations to their duty to address climate change ...

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 ...

The Venezuelan government said in a statement on Friday that 252 Venezuelans had been released from CECOT. The Associated ...