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

"We along with our European and international partners just walked out of the human rights council as the Russian deputy foreign minister spoke, because we stand with Ukraine, and we stand in favor of ...

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

Transcript of the keynote address by Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Michael O’Flaherty at 16th Warsaw Human ...

United States–based Trinidadian rapper and singer, Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty, popularly known as Nicki Minaj, has called on the ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk expressed concern about the growing power of IT entrepreneurs on Monday and pointed to a power shift in the world. "A handful of unelected tech ...

The US State Department will focus on “natural rights” like freedom of speech in its next human rights report, a senior State ...

India, July 8 -- As digital technologies rapidly reshape every aspect of society, the UN's top human rights official has called for human rights to be placed at the centre of this transformation.

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 ...