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 who feared ...

The government of Eritrea has been working the corridors of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva to try to end ...

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 ...

GENEVA – The United States today was absent from a presentation (starting at 2:25:05) at the United Nations Human Rights Council by Special Rapporteur on Education Farida Shaheed detailing her ...

A UN expert says the Philippines hasn’t done enough to turn the page on rights abuses. Her report outlines key reforms—but ...

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 ...

The United Nations will mark its 80th anniversary this month but there’s little to celebrate. Its clout on the world stage is ...

A new United Nations report says that Iran carried out executions at “an alarming rate” last year with at least 975 people killed.

The U.N. Human Rights Council voted on Monday to renew the mandate of an LGBT rights expert, a move welcomed by advocates amid the absence of the United States, a former key supporter that is now ...

In an opening speech to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Volker Turk said that warning systems for abuses as well as advocacy efforts for those wrongly imprisoned would be ...

UN rights expert Francesca Albanese on Thursday denounced companies she said "profited from the Israeli economy of illegal ...