ensuring human rights are upheld. In everything we do UNHCR considers refugees and those forced to flee as partners, putting those most affected at the centre of planning and decision-making. UNHCR is ...

World food prices reach 18-month high in October, UN says World food prices rose in October to an 18-month high as vegetable oils led increases seen in most food staples, United Nations' data ...

The U.N. has elected 18 new members to its top human rights body of 47 countries and new members include some countries you wouldn’t expect.

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 ...

UNITED NATIONS — Russia’s torture of Ukrainian civilians and prisoners of war is a crime against humanity, U.N.-backed human rights experts said Thursday. Erik Møse, chair of the independent ...

I have also noticed that a former Uganda Human Rights Commission representative now openly works for Uganda’s National Resistance Movement government. We are yet to see the United Nations ...

You want to work for social justice at the global level, but most United Nations study programs take you sightseeing ... focus on security and diplomacy to investigate development, human rights, ...

The US has pulled out of the United Nations Human ... like the old commission, the UNHRC had admitted nations with questionable human rights records. HRW's Sarah Margon says other states "have ...

Whichever candidate Americans elect president on November 5 has a unique opportunity to reignite the global human rights movement, a drive that has stalled and been in decline for 20 years.

and the United Nations Human Rights Committee. She also evaluates the Rules of Procedure of the Inter-American Court and the Inter-American Commission, which entered into force in May and June of 2001 ...

Founded in 1945, the United Nations (UN) remains an international ... In February 2023, the UN’s Human Rights Council ...

On April 29, 2024, Afghanistan was reviewed by the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) working group. The UPR is a unique mechanism of the Human Rights Council ...