A seat at the Human Rights Council or its advisory committee is a badge of honor from the international community for ...

The U.N.’s top human rights body has agreed to set up an ongoing probe of human rights violations in Afghanistan under the Taliban, including against women and girls, in a measure pushed for by the ...

The United States will not participate in the next United Nations-administered peer review of its human rights records, the latest move in the nation’s withdrawal from the U.N. Human Rights Council.

A UN expert welcomed on Tuesday the decision by consensus to establish an independent investigative mechanism for Afghanistan during the 48th session of the UN Human Rights Council. The decision ...

CFR scholars provide expert analysis and commentary on international issues. Catherine Powell, an adjunct senior fellow for women and foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, is the former ...

Special Rapporteur Marcos Orellana writes that a European Commission proposal “seems to conflict” with basic “rights to ...

President Trump’s unconventional address to the United Nations General Assembly last week was short on specifics, but his administration’s recent actions have changed America’s human rights policy in ...

Nearly half the 15-member U.N. Security Council plan to raise the issue of rights abuses in North Korea during a closed-door meeting on Friday - a move likely to anger Pyongyang - after Russia and ...

On October 17, two hundred employees of Shinhan University (President Kang Sungjong) issued a joint statement urging the ...

Representatives from governments, the private sector, civil society organisations, academics and citizens are gathering in ...

Talhouni, affirmed that combating human trafficking remains a top national priority and a key pillar in strengthening the country’s human rights system. His remarks came during a workshop organized on ...