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

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

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

A new report recounts recent reprisals from two dozen countries and underscores ICIJ’s reporting on Beijing's tactics to ...

Chinese authorities since 2024 have forcibly returned at least 406 people to North Korea, where they are at grave risk of ...

China and Russia were elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday, but support for Beijing dropped by more than 20 percent compared with a 2016 vote and Saudi Arabia failed in its ...

The UN warns of China’s transnational repression, targeting dissidents, activists, and minorities abroad. The report cites ...

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.

Over 160 human rights advocacy groups have delivered a joint letter to the chief of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) calling for it to reconsider its choice to award China the 2022 Winter ...

Western powers called on China on Friday to restore basic legal rights in Hong Kong and open up to scrutiny its remote Xinjiang region where more than one million ethnic Uighurs are held.

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 ...