ROME -- The Council of Europe on Saturday defended the independence of the European Court of Human Rights, after nine member states said its interpretation of rights obligations prevented them ...

OTTUMWA — The Ottumwa Human Rights Commission will now allow for two non-residents of the city to be appointed to commission, as the Ottumwa City Council amended the ordinance regulating who ...

Twenty-nine countries on the Human Rights Council voted to renew Reid’s mandate, 15 voted against, and three abstained. Before the vote, Pakistan, speaking on behalf of the Organisation of ...

Graeme Reid will continue as the U.N.'s expert on LGBT rights for another three years, as 29 nations back the mandate despite opposition from China, Pakistan, and others.

Today, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) expressed concern at the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights’ announcement that certain activities mandated by the council cannot be ...

At the latest session of the U.N. Human Rights Council, which just concluded last week, delegates dialogued with two U.N. human rights experts who have written reports focused on gender ideology.

The government of Eritrea has been working the corridors of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva to try to end the mandate of the UN special rapporteur on Eritrea.

The U.N. Human Rights Council voted on Monday to renew the mandate of an LGBTQ rights expert, a move welcomed by advocates amid the absence of the United States, a former key supporter that is now ...

The Human Rights Council praised countries that have restricted access to gender-affirming care for trans youth, specifically calling out the Netherlands, the U.K., and Brazil.

"Funding cuts to my office, and the broader human rights ecosystem, offer comfort to dictators and authoritarians," he told the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva at the start of its four-week ...

The U.N. Human Rights Council voted yesterday to extend the term of its current expert on LGBTQ+ rights by three years. The LGBTQ+ rights expert, South African author and scholar Graeme Reid ...