A stellar jury that includes five Nobel Peace Prize winners, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem Pillay has chosen ten finalists for a ...

But now, experts say, China is working to undermine the United Nations’ human rights mechanisms more broadly. Chinese President Xi Jinping gives a speech at the UN headquarters in January 2017.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday withdrawing the United States from the United Nations Human Rights Council. “I’ve always felt that the U.N. has tremendous potential ...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken recommitted the U.S. to rejoining the United Nations Human Rights Council on Wednesday, three years after former President Donald Trump withdrew over what his ...

President Trump has signed an executive order pulling the U.S. out of the United Nations Human Rights Council. "I've always felt that the U.N. has tremendous potential. It's not living up to that ...

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Maybe the idea of universal human rights would catch on if it had a memorable emblem ...

United Nations (UN) branding is being abused in a campaign designed to spy on Uyghurs. On Thursday, Check Point Research (CPR) and Kaspersky's GReAT team said that the campaign, likely to be the ...

Human Rights and other Civil Society Groups Urge United Nations to Respect Human Rights in the Fight Against Antisemitism. Joint Letter to UN Secretary-General António Guterres and Under ...

United Nations human rights chief Volker Türk urged Elon Musk, Twitter's new owner and CEO, to "ensure human rights are central to the management of Twitter." The letter comes a day after the ...

A New York-based United Nations human rights official has resigned over the organization’s response to the situation in Gaza which he described as a “text-book case of genocide.” ...

President Donald Trump is expected to issue an executive order on Tuesday withdrawing the U.S. from the U.N. Human Rights Council and prohibiting future funding for the U.N. relief agency for Gaza ...

One of the great achievements of the United Nations is the creation of a comprehensive body of human rights law, a universal and internationally protected code to which all nations and peoples can ...