The United Nations leadership has launched a major reform plan to make the cash-strapped world body more efficient and ...

Human rights issues—from equal treatment for minorities to freedoms enshrined in the U.S. Bill of Rights, such as speech, ...

The American Bar Association calls on the United States to reverse its decision not to participate in its upcoming Universal Periodic Review (UPR) before the United Nations Human Rights Council. This ...

The United States has recently made the decision to disengage from its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) before the UN Human ...

FILE - U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR) Volker Türk speaks during a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025 ...

Worse violence "may be yet to come" in the conflict-hit Democratic Republic of Congo, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said on Friday. An offensive by the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel ...

Richard Falk, former rapporteur for Palestine, was traveling to an event to examine Canada’s role in the Gaza genocide.

FIRST ON FOX — The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) abruptly cut off a video statement when the speaker mentioned the fate of Ariel and Kfir Bibas. The incident took place during an ...

As COP30 enters a decisive phase, UN Special Rapporteur Astrid Puentes Riaño warns that climate action will remain compromised unless the world confronts the fossil fuels driving the crisis. She says ...

President Donald Trump and his administration are preparing to officially classify state-funded abortion, gender transition ...

President Trump’s unconventional address to the United Nations General Assembly last week was short on specifics, but his administration’s recent actions have changed America’s human rights policy in ...