The latest UN human rights report urges an end to forced psychiatric treatment as U.S. mental health hospitals face ...

US President Donald Trump's idea to rebuild the Gaza Strip as a swanky riviera is unacceptable unless it is for Gazans ...

Nicaragua announced on Thursday it would withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council, following a UN report that ...

UN peacekeeping forces and Russian mercenaries are carrying out human rights violations in the Central African Republic, according to an investigator ...

The Taliban have threatened, assaulted and arbitrarily detained women and girls for not abiding by the prescribed dress code.

South Sudan stands at a precarious juncture as it enters another extended transitional period. The ongoing clashes between ...

President John Dramani Mahama has rallied support for the candidature of Mr Mohamed Adam, a Ghanaian diplomat for the ...

Rights advocates had said the Uyghurs, a persecuted Muslim minority in China, were “at real risk” of torture, imprisonment or even death if they were returned.

Speaking before the Human Rights Council in Geneva, the UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk accused Israel of an “unprecedented ...

A large array of UN experts joined forces to voice concerns that Trump's administration was undermining human rights and ...

Israel has systematically targeted Palestinian healthcare workers in Gaza, arbitrarily detaining them without charge or access to legal counsel, and submitting them to torture and abuse, according to ...

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) warned on Thursday that the alarming human rights situation ...