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Wolfgang Kaleck, founder of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, talks about the need for a universal, ...

UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada Al-Nashif delivered a report concerning the human rights landscape in the ...

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

The recent killings of 15 medical personnel and humanitarian aid workers in Gaza raise further concerns over the commission ...

As the US administration advances negotiations with Russia and Ukraine, the Commission’s conclusions highlight the urgent need for civilian protection and justice to be central to any diplomatic ...

Environmental destruction should be on the same level as genocide and war crimes, a group of island nations argues. "We don't take damage to nature seriously enough. We don't even take nature ...

Readers discuss the war in Gaza and its ripple impact elsewhere, including Hong Kong Feel strongly about these letters, or any other aspects of the news? Share your views by emailing us your Letter to ...

On 20 March 2025, six Belarusian and international civil society organisations – the Center for Global Justice and Human Rights "M.A.R.A.", the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Human ...

Human Rights Day honours the memory of the Sharpeville Massacre on March 21, 1960, and other pivotal moments in the fight for human rights, but just how good is South Africa’s human rights record?

Global human rights watchdog Amnesty International on Thursday censured the “mass killings” recorded in Syria’s ...

The United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and the United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner, co-organized a hybrid ...