In this Working Paper, Suzanne Nossel discusses how the United Nations' main human rights body, the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), has changed for the better since the United States joined the ...

The Joint People's Movement Committee formed by pro-monarchy groups has submitted a petition to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN OHCHR), urging the UN body to ...

Trump is weaponizing a high-tech surveillance state in violation of international human rights law, experts say.

The United Nations Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC ... PAUSE IN US FOREIGN AID HAS UN IN PANIC OVER FUNDING CUTS, TRUMP SAYS WORLD BODY ‘NOT BEING WELL RUN’ On Wednesday, Neuer sent an ...

U NITED NATIONS (AP) — President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the United States will withdraw from the top U.N. human rights body and will not resume funding for the U.N. agency helping ...

The United Nations "Human Rights" Council is attempting an end-run around the Trump administration’s well-founded criticism. An incendiary draft resolution, set for a vote next week, promises to ...

In 1948, representatives from the 50 member states of the United Nations came together, with Eleanor Roosevelt (First Lady of the United States 1933-1945) chairing the Human Rights Commission, to ...

UNAI connects institutions of higher education throughout more than 150 countries who support and advance the United Nations’ missions including the promotion and protection of human rights ...

A recent Commonwealth workshop has bolstered the ability of the Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone to better apply human ...

Human rights lawyers and Indigenous leaders have lodged a complaint to the United Nations calling for a review into the state of the Northern Territory’s “discriminatory” and “regressive ...

Baloch activist Mahan Baloch delivered a powerful intervention that shed light on the ongoing human rights violations in Balochistan during the 58th session of the United Nations Human Rights ...

DHAKA: (Reuters) The United Nations Human Rights Office on Friday (Aug 30) said it will dispatch a fact-finding mission to Bangladesh, as requested by the interim government, to investigate ...