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 ...

Speaking at a sideline seminar during the 59th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, they noted that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kuwait’s delegation to the United Nations in Geneva emphasized the critical role of technical cooperation and ...

There are many things that happened in this war that are clearly war crimes,” Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, says about Israel’s war on Gaza. Democracy Now!'s Amy ...

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) ...

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 ...

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.