With the end of that war, and the creation of the United Nations ... Human Rights and Freedoms and transmitted it to the Economic and Social Council "for reference to the Commission on Human ...

By Nick Cumming-Bruce The commission, which is looking at possible human rights violations by Hamas ... The rapporteurs filed the complaint with the United States on Jan. 11 but kept it ...

In the context of the cold war, the General Assembly explicitly instructed the former United Nations Commission on Human Rights to separate human rights into the two categories covered by the ...

The “National Plan for the Implementation of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights” was drafted on the basis of recommendations issued by the National Consultative ...

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with the appropriate organs and agencies of the United Nations; The right to return has a solid foundation in international law. Article 13(2) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR ...

For more background, see successive civil society letters to the Human Rights Council, including: DefendDefenders et al., “Burundi: Vital role of the Commission of Inquiry in prompting ...

As political changes loom and minority communities face violence, religious minorities urge the government to remove Islam as ...

The “National Plan for the Implementation of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights” was drafted on the basis of recommendations issued by the National Consultative ...

The resolution passed but the vote demonstrated persistent flouting international law in favour of strategic interest.

Citing the second paragraph of Article 21 of the Federal Iraqi Constitution, which prohibits the extradition or forced return ...

Three years after the military staged a coup, intensifying a civil war, civilians continue to pay the price, according to a ...