President John Dramani Mahama has rallied support for the candidature of Mr Mohamed Adam, a Ghanaian diplomat for the position of Secretary-General of the United Nations Tourism Organization (UNWTO).

Officials in Costa Rica and Panama are confiscating migrants’ passports and cellphones, denying them access to legal services and moving them between remote outposts as they wrestle with the logistics ...

Australia "strongly disagrees" with Thailand's decision to transfer 40 Uyghurs to China against their will and has raised ...

Rights advocates had said the Uyghurs, a persecuted Muslim minority in China, were “at real risk” of torture, imprisonment or even death if they were returned.

A large array of UN experts joined forces to voice concerns that Trump's administration was undermining human rights and ...

Israel has systematically targeted Palestinian healthcare workers in Gaza, arbitrarily detaining them without charge or access to legal counsel, and submitting them to torture and abuse, according to ...

Nicaragua announced on Thursday it would withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council, following a UN report that ...

Human rights groups warned that the Uyghurs, who were held in Bangkok for more than a decade, will face mistreatment from ...

Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust Director Anne Bayefsky submitted a video statement to the U.N. Human Rights Council, which was cut off after a few seconds.

The Thai government violated domestic and international law by forcibly sending at least 40 Uyghur men to China, where they ...