Over 30 human rights organizations and NGOs on Monday urged the United Nations and governments worldwide to hold Chinese officials to account for the continued systemic repression of human rights ...

Whichever candidate Americans elect president on November 5 has a unique opportunity to reignite the global human rights movement, a drive that has stalled and been in decline for 20 years. The key is ...

To say Trump’s “America First foreign policy” is grim news for human rights around the world may elicit reactions of non-surprise from many. They would argue human rights have never played a leading ...

In the spring of 1945, as the Second World War was drawing to a close on the European continent, another significant event was taking place across the Atlantic. Representatives of 50 nations met in ...

GENEVA, Jan 30 (Reuters) - The U.N. human rights chief appealed on Thursday for $500 million in funding for 2025 to support its work investigating human rights abuses around the world, from Syria to ...

In December 2020, the Council established a human rights sanctions framework that applies globally, meaning that the EU can target individuals, entities and bodies – including state and non-state ...

Human rights are universal, inalienable and indivisible. Everyone is entitled to exercise their human rights, without discrimination. Respect for human rights is one of the founding values of the ...