Today, the United Nations Human Rights Council held a session exploring reforms of global economic rules to better align with human rights. Specifically, experts discussed developing indicators to ...

UN Human Rights Council has given the green light to open an investigation into alleged violations and abuses committed in ...

The trial of 84 Congolese soldiers accused of murder, rape and other crimes against civilians in the country's conflict-battered east opened Monday.

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the United States from the UN Human Rights Council and the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East ...

There is something sick and rotten about states and societies that not only support and enable mass killings but also make ...

Forcible displacement of an occupied group is an international crime," said Navi Pillay, chair of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory ...

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.

The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has stated that while public anger against the ousted Awami League government is justified, violating the law is not. In a statement yesterday (6 February), the HRW ...

But as she slumped in a folding chair outside the gates of the British prime minister’s office on day 129 of a hunger strike, ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order sanctioning the International Criminal Court for pursuing "illegitimate ...

Leaders throughout the Arab world categorically rejected Trump’s plan, including Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, who issued a ...