The U.N. Human Rights Council voted on Monday to renew the mandate of an LGBT rights expert, a move welcomed by advocates ...

HRW says Asmara’s move was an effort to distract from independent reporting on the ‘country’s dire rights record’.

Arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment -- particularly during recent elections -- are among ...

The Philippines highlighted the normative and institutional frameworks the government built for the protection of overseas ...

The Venezuela government-allied National Assembly unanimously declared United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ...

India has been a member of the Human Rights Council since 2016 but has abstained on every resolution on sexual orientation ...

Activist of the human rights organisation Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), Sammi Deen Baloch, raised alarm over the "forced ...

Civil and political freedoms in Venezuela have sharply deteriorated over the past year, according to the United Nations’ top ...

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 ...

Kuwait’s delegation to the United Nations in Geneva emphasized the critical role of technical cooperation and ...

Venezuela’s ruling party-controlled National Assembly has declared Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for ...