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

Hundreds of Eritreans demonstrate in front of the African Union headquarters in Ethiopia, in support of a UN Inquiry report and asking for measures to be taken against Eritrea, in 2015 [File: Nichole ...

The United States will not participate in the next United Nations-administered peer review of its human rights records, the latest move in the nation’s withdrawal from the U.N. Human Rights Council.

The latest session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, which concluded last week, offers a glimmer of hope in what are dark times for human rights around the world. Amidst talk of the erosion ...

Members of the U.N. Human Rights Council on Friday adopted a resolution for an independent fact-finding mission to ...

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 Human ...

A special session on the situation in al-Fashir, Sudan, opened on Friday at the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva following ...

South African jurist Richard Goldstone, who headed a UN investigation commission into the conduct of Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas during Israel’s offensive in Gaza last winter, criticized on ...

The United Nations "Human Rights" Council is attempting an end-run around the Trump administration’s well-founded criticism. An incendiary draft resolution, set for a vote next week, promises to ...

India has been elected for the seventh time to the United Nations' Human Rights Council for the term 2026-28, India's Permanent Representative to the UN, Parvathaneni Harish shared on Wednesday. In a ...

The United Nations’ Human Rights Council can’t help itself. Its anti-Israel bias runs so deep and its commitment to demonizing the Jewish state is so intense that supposedly serious people who hold ...