Cyprus and the United Nations agency for refugees are clashing over allegations that the east Mediterranean island nation ...

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 ...

The United Nations process for evaluating national human rights records is long and complex, but offers valuable material for ...

Silence is not an option in the fight for human rights – that was the message on Thursday at an event honouring the legacy of ...

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

The Australian Human Rights Commission marked the importance of combating Islamophobia and reaffirm our commitment to ...

The halt to funding for the NED threatens to shut down groups documenting and helping to stop human rights abuses in North ...

The United Nations Human Rights Council should renew the mandate of the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Iran and ...

Nicaragua has withdrawn from the United Nations Human Rights Council following a damning report by U N experts accusing ...

Ever since former US First Lady and human rights champion Eleanor Roosevelt inspired the first UN sub-commission on the status of women in the 1940s, thousands of women around the world meet at UN ...

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