Report says Israeli settlers and Palestinians residing in territory are treated 'under two distinct bodies of law and ...

Indonesian Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva, Sidharto Reza Suryodipuro, has been appointed as the President of ...

The United Nations Human Rights Council sparked outrage on Wednesday when it announced that two of the seven experts elected to its advisory committee were from Iran and China. Hillel Neuer, Executive ...

The United States will not participate in the next United Nations-administered peer review of its human rights records, the latest move in the nation’s withdrawal from the U.N. Human Rights Council.

Uganda's government has ‌ordered two local rights groups to halt their work days before Thursday's election, which ‌the ...

This submission provides an overview of Human Rights Watch’s main concerns with respect to the human rights situation in Vietnam. We hope it will inform the UN Human Rights Committee’s preparation for ...

From the wreckage of war, the United Nations was born in 1945. Leaders came together to prevent another world war, but what ...

Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday sought support from the United Nations human rights office to counter a surge of misinformation targeting the 12 February elections. "There has been a flood of ...

The United Nations welcomed two new officials to the advisory committee for its Human Rights Council this week in a vote that did not inspire confidence in the humanitarian body. Iranian diplomat ...

At the end of World War II, the U.S. and its allies made a compelling case that protecting and promoting human rights is not ...