United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Reem Alsalem (L) and UN Human Rights Officer Orlagh McCann (R) address a press conference in Ankara on ...

The United Nations’ top human rights body voted on Thursday to open an inquiry into abuses and possible war crimes committed in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories during recent ...

They delivered the scathing rebukes during the 58th Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva on March 11 at a side event hosted by rights organizations Jubilee ...

WSJ editorial slams the United Nations Human Rights Council for refusing to discuss China’s Uyghur genocide The Trump administration previously withdraw the U.S. from the U.N. Human Rights council ...

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) will hold its first high-level meeting next week over human rights abuses and violations by North Korea, diplomatic and civic group sources said Monday.

The United Nations Human Rights Council passed Resolution 48/13 in October 2021. The Resolution recognizes as a human right a person’s access to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment.

Russia Suspended From United Nations' Human Rights Council After U.S. Push Published Apr 07, 2022 at 12:18 PM EDT Updated Apr 07, 2022 at 1:52 PM EDT By Lora Korpar Fellow ...

was adopted by the United Nations’ General Assembly in 1948. It was the first attempt to create a global standard of human rights – to define what human rights are and what they encompass.

WASHINGTON – The United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution on Friday on the rights of intersex persons. It was the first time such an international body has approved a legal ...