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

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 ...

The Thai government’s decision came only weeks after Thailand began a three-year term on the HRC, the main UN body tasked with promoting human rights worldwide. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights ...

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 ...