The United Nations Human Rights Council today agreed by consensus to launch an urgent fact-finding mission and commission of ...

The U.N.’s top human rights body is holding an urgent session on spiralling violence in eastern Congo, where Rwanda-backed rebels recently captured a major city.

U.S. President Donald Trump is expected on Tuesday to stop U.S. engagement with the United Nations Human Rights Council and ...

The Bill of Rights Bill was originally introduced to parliament in June 2022. It would have repealed and replaced the Human Rights Act 1998, which incorporates and makes the rights contained in the ...

François Hollande, President of the Republic – opening debate of the 67th session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, 25 September 2012 Human rights are defined as the inalienable rights of ...

UNITED NATIONS - President Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations told senators at her confirmation hearing Tuesday that she will promote his doctrine of 'peace through ...

Rulings come after anti gender actions by the Trump administration in first 24 hours of its term NEW YORK, NY / WASHINGTON, D.C. — On January 20, 2025, the United Nations Human Rights Committee issued ...

On Monday, President Trump said of the Panama Canal, “We’re taking it back.” The letter from Panama cited articles of the U.N. charter that prohibit member states from using threats and force.

Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide Apply 17 March 2025 (midnight New York time) Executive Secretary, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (Bonn, Germany) Apply Extended ...

Economist Editor in Chief Zanny Minton Beddoes offered a scathing takedown of the “Trump Doctrine” of foreign ... like NATO and the United Nations. Minton Beddoes underscored these concerns ...

In July 2024, a new Labour government was elected following more than a decade of backsliding on human rights by previous ... environmental defenders in the United Kingdom.” ...

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights expressed solidarity with the people of Lebanon and Syria on Thursday, acknowledging the traumas both nations have endured over decades. “I arrived, I have to ...