The United States has a special interest in safeguarding the integrity of human rights because America is founded on the ...

Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions asks it to submit evidence for independence and effectiveness ...

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U.N. systems have played a crucial role in highlighting Beijing’s human rights abuses. Now China’s government is stacking ...

The United States is rebuking a United Nations decision to extend Francesca Albanese’s tenure as the U.N. special rapporteur ...

Human rights are the fundamental rights and freedom that belong to every single one of us. In 1948, following the traumatic events of World War Two, representatives from the 48 countries of the United ...

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 ...

The United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday passed a resolution demanding ... the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, and other UN bodies, which ...

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 ...

NEW YORK, April 24, 2025 /CNW/ - At a full-capacity side event during the United Nations Permanent Forum ... The event united Indigenous women leaders, human rights advocates, and allies to ...