Arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment -- particularly during recent elections -- are among ...

Venezuela’s ruling party-controlled National Assembly has declared Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for ...

The Human Rights Council is the main inter-governmental body within the United Nations system responsible for addressing situations of human rights violations. The Council also receives thematic ...

At a meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council, the European Union sought to draw attention to abuses in China, only to be blocked by Greece, which is courting Chinese investment. By Nick ...

THE OBAMA administration, which has made the use of the United Nations Human Rights Council a signature piece of its diplomacy, has been celebrating the results of the council's latest session in ...

Delivered July 26, 2007. Since the birth of the United Nations, protecting and advancing fundamental human rights has been one of the organization's primary objectives.

The hope that a new U.N. Human Rights Council would rectify the U.N.'s poor record of holding human rights abusers to account has, thus far, proven illusory (Delivered September 6, 2006) ...

Russia is campaigning for a return to the United Nations’ Human Rights Council – after being suspended just last year for invading Ukraine. Will the rest of the world vote on Tuesday to ...

Trump withdraws the U.S. from the United Nations Human Rights Council Updated February 4, 2025 6:33 PM ET Originally published February 3, 2025 6:37 PM ET Deepa Shivaram ...

Venezuela's government-allied National Assembly on Tuesday unanimously declared United Nations High Commissioner for Human ...