The nation that was born today, the Fourth of July, is demonstrably no longer “the land of the free and the home of the brave ...

The Venezuela government-allied National Assembly unanimously declared United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ...

Europe is in the grip of an unprecedented heatwave, with Spain and England registering their hottest June temperatures in ...

Venezuela’s ruling party-controlled National Assembly has declared Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for ...

Arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment -- particularly during recent elections -- are among ...

The UN's top rights official on Monday urged the international community to confront the growing human rights implications of climate change.Speaking at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, High ...

Law Adviser Asif Nazrul confirmed on Sunday, June 29, that the Council of Advisors, chaired by Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus, had approved the draft MoU “in principle,” paving the way for the Office of ...

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is set to establish a presence in Bangladesh for an initial period of three years, marking a significant step in enhancing ...

The temporary protected status for Haitian nationals in the United States, granted after a 2010 earthquake near Port-au-Prince caused up to 200,000 deaths, will terminate Sept. 2, the Department of ...

Civil and political freedoms in Venezuela have sharply deteriorated over the past year, according to the United Nations’ top ...

Venezuelan opposition member Pedro Urruchurtu spoke to the UN about spending more than 400 days sheltering in the Argentine Embassy in Caracas as Maduro operatives had rifles pointed at him and his ...