Category: Human Rights

As the world marks the grim anniversary of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in…

The Vatican’s rejection of the 500-year-old Catholic decree used to justify the seizure of indigenous…

The UN on Thursday condemned the multiple rockets fired into Israel from across its northern…

Legal reforms in Serbia must be accompanied by the effective implementation of laws to counter…

A Taliban decision banning women from working for the UN inside Afghanistan, will have devastating…

Judges investigating the deadly August 2020 explosion at the port in Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, must…

A Taliban edict banning Afghan women from working for the UN mission and agencies inside…

Independent human rights experts expressed their solidarity with the people of Malawi on Tuesday, following…

Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have issued an order banning women nationals who are UN staff…

Tunisia must take swift action to curb racist rhetoric and halt ongoing rights violations of…

It is estimated that up to one million people in Iraq have disappeared over the…

The UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution on Tuesday calling for the appointment of an independent…

New tools must be deployed to keep the global spotlight on ongoing gross violations and…

Tackling impunity will be critical to end pervasive violence and horrific human rights violations and…

A periodic exhibit at the Seoul Art Centre in the Republic of Korea features dozens…

On the occasion of World Autism Awareness Day, the UN chief called for renewed resolve…

The landscape and emotions of the Ukrainian people may be scarred and raw, but they…

Independent UN-appointed human rights experts on Friday called for the urgent repatriation of children from…

The international community must take firm and principled action to protect the human rights and…

Retaliation continues against officials who spearheaded the fight against corruption in Guatemala, the UN High…

Making homosexuality punishable by death is an egregious violation of human rights, independent UN Human…

The de facto Taliban authorities in Afghanistan must immediately release activists detained for advocating for…

Top UN officials called for creating a new institution to help locate tens of thousands…

The UN Secretary-General on Tuesday called for a full investigation into the circumstances surrounding the…

The UN human rights office, OHCHR, on Tuesday expressed concern over mass detentions and other…

“Tragic” accounts of State-sponsored abductions and enforced disappearances in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea…

UN-appointed independent human rights investigators on Monday said there are grounds to believe that Libyan…

Honouring the millions of Africans sold into slavery helps to restore dignity to people who…

The human rights situation in Ukraine as Russia continues its military campaign following last year’s…

India must immediately halt its crackdown on Kashmiri activists, the independent UN Special Rapporteur on…

Celebrated by millions of Muslims around the world, Ramadan is a time “to come together,…

Marking the most significant global conference on water in five decades, the World Health Organization…

With the converging Ramadan, Easter and Passover holidays now beginning, Israelis and Palestinians must urgently…

The adoption by Uganda’s parliament of new legislation targeting lesbian, gay and bisexual people is…

With xenophobia, prejudice, and hate speech on the rise, the UN community gathered in the…

A specialized force must be deployed to urgently help Haitian authorities tackle a tsunami of…

Raising alarms that the situation on the Korean Peninsula is heading in the “wrong direction”,…

“The most serious human rights violations in the Islamic Republic of Iran over the past…

Violence against civilians in South Sudan rose by two per cent during 2022, according to the…

The UN rights chief on Friday urged Belarus to end the systematic repression of perceived…

Violence resulting from the brutal military coup is continuing inside Myanmar on an “alarming scale”…

Russian forces in Ukraine faced fresh accusations of war crimes on Thursday as UN-appointed independent…

Officials in many countries “vilify and target” human rights defenders instead of recognizing the crucial…

States must be “primary responders” in torture cases, to end impunity and bring justice on…

Eight UN agencies on Tuesday published a new report aimed at helping countries address chronic…

Some countries and private companies are using “counter-terrorism and security rhetoric” to justify a major…

South Africa must swiftly set up a watchdog mechanism to examine prisons, detention centres, and…

Top rights investigators appointed by the Human Rights Council on Monday delivered a highly critical…

To Myanmar, where UN-appointed independent rights experts have urged social media companies to do more…

A “new philosophy” and broader approaches can transform services for persons with disabilities, a UN-appointed…