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

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 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 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 ...

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 ...

Pace, a former secretary of the UN Commission on Human Rights, was sent by Amnesty International in 2000 to report on the programme, recalling that, when he returned, he had remarked to the ...

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 ...