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This is the first time the U.S. government has imposed sanctions on Díaz-Canel, Cuba's handpicked president and head of the ...

The Human Rights Council is the main inter-governmental body within the United Nations system responsible for addressing situations of human rights violations. The Council also receives thematic ...

Human rights defenders rallied on Thursday to support the top U.N. expert on Palestinian rights, after the United States ...

United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Reem Alsalem (L) and UN Human Rights Officer Orlagh McCann (R) address a press conference in Ankara on ...

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“It is a massive source of embarrassment to the United Nations that some governments with egregious human rights records sit on the U.N. Human Rights Council,” Trump told the U.N. General ...

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 ...

April 4 (UPI) --The United Nations on Thursday for the first time adopted a "groundbreaking" resolution that seeks to protect the human rights of people born intersex.On Thursday, the U.N.'s Human ...

Versions in Arabic, French, Russian and Spanish (20 July 2023) The President of the General Assembly, Csaba Kőrösi, today announced the winners of the prestigious United Nations Prize in the ...

Civil Rights. Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws in Texas May Violate Human Rights Treaties. Four nonprofits are urging the United Nations to pressure the federal government to protect queer residents of the Lone ...

Promoting respect for human rights is a core purpose of the United Nations and defines its identity as an organization for people around the world. Member States have mandated the Secretary ...