By Emma Farge GENEVA -The United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday rejected a bid by Eritrea to end the mandate of a U.N. expert investigating alleged abuses in the country, in a relief to ...

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

At a meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council, the European Union sought to draw attention to abuses in China, only to be blocked by Greece, which is courting Chinese investment. By Nick ...

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

The Human Rights Council is the main inter-governmental body within the United Nations system responsible for addressing situations of human rights violations. The Council also receives thematic ...

Russia is campaigning for a return to the United Nations’ Human Rights Council – after being suspended just last year for invading Ukraine. Will the rest of the world vote on Tuesday to ...

The hope that a new U.N. Human Rights Council would rectify the U.N.'s poor record of holding human rights abusers to account has, thus far, proven illusory (Delivered September 6, 2006) ...

Delivered July 26, 2007. Since the birth of the United Nations, protecting and advancing fundamental human rights has been one of the organization's primary objectives.

THE OBAMA administration, which has made the use of the United Nations Human Rights Council a signature piece of its diplomacy, has been celebrating the results of the council's latest session in ...

“It is a massive source of embarrassment to the United Nations that some governments with egregious human rights records sit on the U.N. Human Rights Council,” Trump told the U.N. General ...

HRW says Asmara’s move was an effort to distract from independent reporting on the ‘country’s dire rights record’.