Category: Human Rights

The UN Human Rights Council heard on Wednesday that fundamental freedoms in Ukraine have been…

Respect for fundamental rights and freedoms by the de facto authorities in Afghanistan is critical to ensuring stability…

The world must not forget the roughly one million Rohingya from Myanmar “forced to run…

Greater protection is needed for civil society representatives who are increasingly being targeted in repressive…

“Humiliating and degrading,” is how activist Zulaikha Patel describes some of the racist experiences she…

More than 10 months since Myanmar’s military seized power, the country’s human rights situation is…

Despite significant progress since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) 73…

Genocide “remains a very real threat” around the world, said the UN chief on Thursday,…

Political instability is a key factor behind new data revealed on Thursday which shows that…

Women, children and other vulnerable groups are more likely to have their human rights impacted…

She is outspoken, candid, and speaks truth to power. She is known to lecture governments…

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, said on Tuesday that the human rights situation in the Occupied…

With escalating violence displacing thousands of people since November, the humanitarian situation in Sudan’s Darfur is getting worse…

Following a series of riots which have left more than 280 inmates dead and hundreds…

The UN’s top human rights official on Monday condemned the imprisonment of Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San…

Ilias Chatzis heads up a global team of more than 60 experts at the UN…

Experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council have called for urgent action to end…

Marking the 35th anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development, independent UN human…

Marking the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, said on Friday that those with a disability were among the…

Disabled people in Haiti who have been driven from one temporary shelter to another as…

Following armed conflict from1991 to 1994 in Croatia and the rest of former Yugoslavia, that…

Over 700,000 children have been impacted by school closures due to often brutal violence in Cameroon, according to an analysis released by…

Women and children are at high risk of being pushed into contemporary forms of slavery, UN-appointed…

South Sudan is facing the twin threat of COVID-19 and an uptick in violence that…

“Conversion therapy” is built on the false premise that it can alter the sexual orientation…

The UN’s top rights official, Michelle Bachelet, is to spearhead efforts to address systemic racism…

Conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) is “a brutal crime” that is being exacerbated by the COVID-19…

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Friday that her office was closely…

The UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday heard powerful testimony from the brother of George Floyd, whose…

A UN expert on Wednesday hailed an historic judgement issued by the United States Supreme…

Women and children are at high risk of being pushed into contemporary forms of slavery, UN-appointed…

With more people dying due to COVID-19 this year than in 2020, the UN Secretary-General argued on Tuesday that “the only way out of a…

As of last Friday, more than 95,000 people have been officially registered as disappeared in Mexico. That includes…

The situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, continues to pose a significant…

Eddie Ndopu, an award-winning disability activist from South Africa, and one of 17 United Nations…

Artificial intelligence has been used in products targeting children for several years, but legislation protecting…

A UN human rights expert welcomed India’s decision to repeal three contentious farm laws that sparked a year of nationwide protests which left…

All the nations members of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) adopted on…

The UN human rights office, OHCHR, on Thursday condemned Iran’s execution of a young man…

UN-appointed independent human rights experts urged the Chinese authorities on Monday to release on humanitarian grounds, imprisoned citizen journalist and…

Despite COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions, some 650,000 women and girls were provided with gender-based violence…

At least 39 people have been killed by security forces in Sudan since the 25 October military coup, 15 of…

Despite a crisis of trust both within the country and abroad, three months after the…

A new Iranian law that raises the prospect of the death penalty for abortion has…

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Friday urged authorities in Myanmar to immediately…

Amid growing concerns about the plight of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers at the Poland-Belarus…

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has received credible reports of families in Afghanistan offering daughters as young as…

Nearly 240 million children worldwide, or one in 10, live with disabilities and experience deprivation in indicators…

With news footage showing migrants on the border between Belarus and Poland attempting to dodge…

UN Agencies and the Association International Development Agencies (AIDA) said on Tuesday they were standing firmly behind…