A group of UN human rights experts is urging the U.S. Senate to block a bill that seeks to punish the International Criminal ...

The motto of the United Nations is “peace, dignity and equality on a healthy planet”. Clearly the present state of the planet ...

This submission details Human Rights Watch’s key concerns regarding Kazakhstan’s compliance with international human rights ...

Euro-Med Monitor says Israel should be included in the UN’s blacklist of entities suspected of perpetrating sexual violence in conflicts.

Volker Türk,the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, says regulating online content is not censorship.

GENEVA: Australia violated the rights of asylum seekers arbitrarily detained on the island of Nauru, a UN watchdog ruled on Thursday, in a warning to other countries intent on outsourcing asylum ...

The Breach/Valdez Award highlights the importance of journalism in democratic societies. It underscores the obligation of ...

Many Rohingya fled genocide in Myanmar - but now they find themselves deprived of rights and subjected to harassment and ...

Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) organised the first instalment of ‘Transition Justice Talks’ at the Supreme ...

A group of Uyghur men who have been detained in Thailand for more than a decade allege that the Thai government is preparing ...

Social media posts inciting hate and division have "real world consequences" and there is a responsibility to regulate ...

The family of a British businessman jailed in Dubai has urged the Government to impose financial sanctions on one of the Gulf ...