The United States on Friday snubbed a U.N. body charged with keeping tabs on the human rights records of all its member ...

United Nations Human Rights Council chief Volker Türk issued a warning about the bloodshed, rape and torture in El Fasher, in ...

The U.N.’s top human rights body is holding a one-day special session to highlight hundreds of killings at a hospital in ...

The United Nations Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) session in Geneva on Wednesday was marked by the interruption and scolding of pro-Israel speakers. Meanwhile, those speaking against the Jewish state ...

The UN Human Rights Council on Friday ordered investigators to probe alleged atrocities in Sudan's El-Fasher and to seek to ...

The report, which does not have the force of law, found that the Israeli military had engaged in deliberate assaults on hospitals and other health care providers. By Farnaz Fassihi The country’s ...

On November 14, 2025, the UN Human Rights Council held a special session on the human rights situation in and around El Fasher, Sudan, and adopted (without a ...

International human rights law lays down the obligations of Governments to act in certain ways or to refrain from certain acts, in order to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms of ...

Last week, the United Nations held elections for seats on the UN’s esteemed Human Rights Council. Member states to this council are supposed to represent the nations which uphold and promote the ...

A UN expert today expressed serious concern with the Security Council’s adoption of Resolution 2803, warning that it runs ...

The country’s brutal civil war has led to the killing, rape and torture of civilians, including children, as it threatens to destabilize neighboring countries. By Nick Cumming-Bruce The commission, ...