A small group of countries led by China and Russia has repeatedly tried to block funding for human rights-related work at the ...

A report outlines attempts by China and Russia to block U.N. funding for human rights initiatives, highlighting a five-year ...

Egypt and Vietnam are on track to secure seats on the United Nations Human Rights Council despite being woefully unfit for ...

The deliberate denial of information to 26 million Koreans living under the Kim family regime is not simply censorship -- it ...

The human rights segment receives less than one per cent of the total UN budget. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

UN Watch and human rights activists criticize the Human Rights Council's appointment of Iranian and Chinese officials as ...

The latest session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, which concluded last week, offers a glimmer of hope in what are dark times for human rights around the world.

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk on Monday warned that the reinstation of the death penalty in Kyrgyzstan would breach international law obligations. Türk declared that the proposals to reintroduce ...

The human rights chief said achieving lasting peace would require "tremendous efforts and the goodwill of all those involved ...

A U.N. expert reports that repression in Russia is escalating, targeting civilians, journalists, and Ukrainian prisoners of ...

UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders Mary Lawlor called on world leaders on Friday to end the repression of climate activists and protect them as human rights defenders ...

A United Nations letter to Colombia warns that mercury contamination from illegal gold mining in the Atrato River basin is ...