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

The Human Rights Council on Wednesday heard gruesome testimony of torture, rape and execution of Ukrainian detainees and ...

The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine has documented new Russian crimes against humanity. It ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Friday, a South Sudanese general and dozens of soldiers were killed when a U.N. helicopter trying to evacuate them from ...