UN human rights body holds session on Sudan after killings by paramilitary in Darfur

The U.N.’s top human rights body is holding a one-day special session to highlight hundreds of killings at a hospital in ...

U.N. Human Rights Council warns of suffering in Sudan

United Nations Human Rights Council chief Volker Türk issued a warning about the bloodshed, rape and torture in El Fasher, in ...

Human Rights Watch says Venezuelans sent to El Salvador were tortured

Venezulans "disappeared" from the United States to El Salvador where they were held in the country's CECOT maximum security ...

US skips human rights review by UN body as countries appeal for its return next year

The United States on Friday snubbed a U.N. body charged with keeping tabs on the human rights records of all its member ...

US snubs UN meeting on its human rights record

A U.N. meeting to review the United States' human rights record opened without the U.S. on Friday, with rights groups calling ...

B.C. human rights commissioner says stigma is driving province's 'harmful' drug policies

British Columbia's Human Rights Commissioner says the province is worsening the toxic drug crisis by treating substance use ...
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Global environmental rights and injustice: Billions live in conditions violating human rights

The CU Boulder research, the most comprehensive of its kind, meticulously assessed the global population’s exposure to ...

U.N. human rights chief says U.S. "must halt" strikes on alleged drug boats to prevent "extrajudicial killing"

The United Nations human rights chief says the Trump administration "must halt" strikes on alleged drug boats to prevent "extrajudicial killing." ...

Venezuelans describe ‘hell’ at El Salvador CECOT prison in Human Rights Watch report

Human Rights Watch and Cristosal report 252 Venezuelan migrants deported by the U.S. to El Salvador’s CECOT prison faced torture, disappearances, and abuse.

South Korea to maintain backing for UN resolution on North Korea human rights

South Korea will co-sponsor an annual U.N. resolution that raises concerns over North Korea's human rights situation, the ...

UN human rights chief calls on Pentagon to halt strikes on suspected drug boats

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk called for the Pentagon to halt boat strikes against vessels suspected to be carrying drugs in order to prevent “extrajudicial ...