The United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) has expressed concern at the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights' announcement that certain activities mandated by the council cannot be delivered due ...

The U.N. renewed its LGBT mandate, allowing expert Graeme Reid to keep monitoring global anti-LGBT discrimination for three ...

Rubio accused U.N. Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese of leading “political and economic warfare” against the U.S. and Israel.

Today I am imposing sanctions on UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for her illegitimate and ...

There are many things that happened in this war that are clearly war crimes,” Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, says about Israel’s war on Gaza. Democracy Now!'s Amy ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio sanctioned the official over her recommendations to the International Criminal Court that it issue arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and ...

High Commissioner Volker Türk says he has not been allowed access to inspect El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison.

A resolution on new technology's impact on human rights, whose proposal was led by Korea, was adopted by consensus (agreement ...

The United Nations voted to renew the mandate of the Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) on Monday. The UN ...

The U.N. Human Rights Council voted yesterday to extend the term of its current expert on LGBTQ+ rights by three years. The ...

Human rights defenders rallied on Thursday to support the top U.N. expert on Palestinian rights, after the United States ...

As the United Nations marks its 80th anniversary in 2025, the 59th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) ...