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’.

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

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 ...

Ghana’s parliament has reaffirmed its commitment to advancing human rights and upholding international obligations through robust engagement with the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process.

Concerns about human rights violations in Eritrea was a central point of discussion during the United Nations Human Rights ...

At the 59th UNHRC session in Geneva, leaders of the United Kashmir People's National Party (UKPNP) called on the United ...