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

The U.N.'s decision to hire four new staff for its controversial anti-Israel commission, despite an ongoing liquidity crisis, ...

NGO Monitor Legal Advisor Anne Herzog claims Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese overstepped her mandate in her latest ...

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

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

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

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

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

Next week, the United Nations Human Rights Council will vote on renewing the mandate of the independent expert on protection ...

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 ...

We go to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, where activists are shining a light on Morocco’s brutal occupation of ...

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 ...