Category: Human Rights

Israel’s decision to advance plans for some 800 new settlement units, most of which are…

Increasing political tensions in Haiti coupled with insecurity and structural inequalities could result in protests…

The UN human rights office (OHCHR) have raised alarm over the arrest of Russian opposition…

Thirteen-year-old Min Min scavenges day and night for precious stones in a quarry in Hpakant,…

Although child labour has decreased significantly over the last decade, one-in-ten children are still caught…

Israel’s “impressive” vaccination programme against the COVID-19 pandemic must include Palestinians under occupation, UN independent…

Police in Peru used unnecessary and excessive force during protests in the capital last November…

Exactly 19 years after the Guantánamo Bay detention centre first opened, UN independent human rights…

The UN human rights office, OHCHR, is urging authorities in Uganda to ensure elections next week are free and…

The UN human rights office (OHCHR), on Friday, voiced concerns over the use of “vaguely…

Saudi Arabia’s action in lifting sanctions against Qatar is a “positive first step” towards normalized…

Urgent measures are needed to protect civilian aircraft flying over conflict zones or other areas…

The UN human rights office (OHCHR) has voiced deep concerns over the arrests of over…

An independent UN human rights expert has welcomed a British court’s refusal to extradite Wikileaks…

The United Nations is commemorating World Braille Day, on Monday, highlighting the importance of the…

The execution of an Iranian man for a crime allegedly committed when he was 16…

The year drew to a close in Argentina with “a ground-breaking law” that legalizes abortions…

A Vietnamese man has told the UN he has found his ‘true voice’ in the…

Five independent UN experts condemned United States President Donald Trump’s pardoning of private security contractors,…

Powerful digital tools using artificial intelligence (AI) software are helping in the fight against COVID-19,…

The Netherlands has violated a child’s rights by registering children under the category “nationality unknown”…

A UN independent human rights expert, on Tuesday, called on the United States to remove…

A group of transgender women in Mexico City has been telling the UN how despite…

 The UN refugee agency commended Chad on Friday for adopting its first-ever asylum law, which…

An independent UN human rights expert called on Wednesday for Facebook’s Oversight Board to give…

The UN human rights office OHCHR, has voiced deep concern over the decision by United States President…

At least 59 media workers have been killed this year, four of them women, the…

In an open letter to Donald Trump on Tuesday, an independent UN human rights expert…

Reports of artillery strikes on civilians and mass killings of non-combatants in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, must be investigated and…

Thailand’s decision to charge protestors with treason is deeply troubling, the UN Human Rights Office,…

UN independent human rights experts, on Thursday, called for an impartial and independent investigation into…

The UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) reached “a significant milestone” on Thursday after registering…

China has mounted a “shocking” five-year assault on lawyers who stand up for human rights,…

An ailing Bangladeshi cartoonist who has been detained for allegedly spreading fake news about the country’s response to COVID-19, should be released…

The United Nations has recorded the deaths of 255 people in 66 massacres in Colombia…

Iran’s decision to hang media activist Ruhollah Zam on Saturday was an appalling violation of human rights…

In a $1.4 billion appeal launched on Thursday, the UN migration organization IOM and the…

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for human rights to be put “front and centre”…

Some political leadership during the pandemic has been “reprehensible”, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights…

Social media platforms, technology companies, and religious and civil society leaders have a central role…

Amid a COVID-19 outbreak at London’s Belmarsh prison, an independent UN expert appealed to British…

Afghanistan’s justice system is continuing to fail female victims of violence and sex crimes, despite…

The human rights situation in Belarus continues to deteriorate, particularly with respect to peaceful assembly,…

UN independent human rights experts expressed serious concern on Thursday, after the United States Government…

The United Nations is commemorating the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, on Thursday, calling…

Commemorating the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, the United Nations Secretary-General highlighted the…

There is “a deep sense of worry about the grim realities” of life faced by those…

The Global Compact for Migration, adopted by countries in 2018 as a comprehensive framework for cooperation on…

A 19-year-old woman from Nicaragua in Central America has been telling the United Nations how…

Violence is escalating in the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua, where meaningful and inclusive…