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 ...

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

They allege use of excessive force and unlawful detentions by security personnel during the protest that saw two deaths and ...

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 ...

(Geneva, April 3, 2025) – The United Nations Human Rights Council on April 3, 2025, began an intergovernmental process to draft an international human rights treaty on older people, Human Rights ...

On April 3, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted ... and cultural rights. The resolution contributes to a growing body of intergovernmental statements outlining the need to build ...

Later this month, the 24th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) kicks off at UN Headquarters in New York, bringing together Indigenous Peoples, government ...

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

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 ...