Russia's "widespread and systematic" use of enforced disappearances and torture of Ukrainians during its full-scale invasion ...

and Poland – were tasked with assessing “problems relating to the status of women” to advise the UN Commission on Human Rights, a precursor to the UN Human Rights Council. In its first ...

Ever since former US First Lady and human rights champion Eleanor Roosevelt inspired the first UN sub-commission on the ...

The statement on Saturday from Yasmin Sooka, chairperson of the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan, comes amid a spate of violence between security forces overseen by President Salva ...

As part of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian forces have committed crimes against humanity in the form of ...

Palestinians have described alleged abuses by Israeli forces and settlers to independent U.N.-backed human rights ...

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has called for the protection of witnesses after ...

United Nations-backed human rights experts have accused Israel of "the systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other ...

The chatter that has dominated both coffee-break discussions and high-level pronouncements at the 69th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is of a global and orchestrated “backlash” ...

A United Nations' commission has begun debates on women's rights, with the UN chief warning that "hard-won gains are being thrown into reverse." The UN Commission on the Status of Women convened ...