The foundations of this body of law are the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the General Assembly in 1945 and 1948 respectively.

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 ...

Endorsing this philosophy in 1992, the United Nations Human Rights Committee explained that states have "a positive obligation toward persons who are particularly vulnerable because of their ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Lucy McKernan is the Deputy Director for United Nations at Human Rights Watch’s office in Geneva, responsible for advocacy work at the Human Rights Council and other UN human rights mechanisms.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

EXPLAINER: What Is the United Nations? In 1945 ... conflict both within and between countries, attacks on human rights around the world and the increasingly grave threat of climate change on ...