A United Nations human rights official is urging the United States to lift its sanctions on Cuba, saying they are impacting ...

United Nations Human Rights Council chief Volker Türk issued a warning about the bloodshed, rape and torture in El Fasher, in ...

The Universal Periodic Review is a unique UN mechanism created in 2006 under General Assembly resolution 60/251, which ...

GENEVA (AP) — The United States on Friday snubbed a review of its human rights record by a United Nations body on orders of the Trump administration, which has turned its back on the Human Rights ...

The U.N.’s top human rights body is holding a one-day special session to highlight hundreds of killings at a hospital in ...

The United Nations Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) session in Geneva on Wednesday was marked by the interruption and scolding of pro-Israel speakers. Meanwhile, those speaking against the Jewish state ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday withdrawing the United States from the United Nations Human Rights Council. “I’ve always felt that the U.N. has tremendous potential. It’s not ...

The report, which does not have the force of law, found that the Israeli military had engaged in deliberate assaults on hospitals and other health care providers. By Farnaz Fassihi The country’s ...

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order Tuesday withdrawing the United States from the United Nations Human Rights Council, according to a White House fact sheet shared ahead of ...

Last week, the United Nations held elections for seats on the UN’s esteemed Human Rights Council. Member states to this council are supposed to represent the nations which uphold and promote the ...

International human rights law lays down the obligations of Governments to act in certain ways or to refrain from certain acts, in order to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms of ...

The country’s brutal civil war has led to the killing, rape and torture of civilians, including children, as it threatens to destabilize neighboring countries. By Nick Cumming-Bruce The commission, ...