Volker Türk told the Human Rights Council in Geneva that the country had reached “yet another crisis point,” with heavily armed gangs expanding their control, public institutions in ruins and a ...

Joint NGO Letter to HRVP Kaja Kallas and EU Foreign Ministers Dear High Representative Kallas,Dear EU Foreign Ministers,Two years have now passed since the start of the devastating conflict in Sudan ...

The suffering Tamil masses cannot achieve justice or win their democratic rights through the JVP/NPP government or any other ...

A diplomatic source told JNS that following vigorous negotiations, the resolution won’t have a perpetual tool to facilitate investigating Israel. The post Still ‘awful’ UN Human Rights Council resolut ...

GENEVA: The UN Human Rights Council has adopted the results of Qatar’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) under Item 6 of the ...

The U.N. Human Rights Council is attempting to do an end-run around the Trump administration by advancing an OIC-backed ...

Saharawi Youth Union, advocating for the independence of Western Sahara, and the International Service for Human Rights urged the UN Human Rights Council on Monday to 'take action' and uphold its ...

North Korea has effectively rejected nearly half the human rights recommendations made by United Nations member states during ...

Last week, a cross-regional group of countries – led by Iceland, with support from Chile and South Africa – called on the ...

Orbán’s semi-authoritarian regime openly flouts freedom, democracy, the rule of law, minority rights, pluralism, tolerance ...

A better future for Syria, rooted in respect for human rights for all, requires addressing and ensuring meaningful, inclusive ...

The report voiced today is yet another sad testimony to how selective country mechanisms turn the international dimension of ...