Indigenous leaders from the Peruvian Amazon have urged the government to halt oil and gas projects that threaten their lands, ...

The experts also said France must carry out “an independent and impartial review” of the measures deployed during the Games.

Women's rights NGO Equality Now reported on Friday that despite some progress towards legal equality, there has been an 'alarming rollback' of fundamental human rights relating to 'women's rights, ...

The new slavery is a shameful mark on our country’s pretenses to respect for human rights and the dignity of every human ...

During the presentation of the Fact-Finding Report in Geneva, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk posed a crucial question: “How can we ensure this never happens again?” The report—which ...

A parliamentary human rights committee has recommended reforms to Australia's sanctions regime to make it easier for aid ...

My name is Yalkun Uluyol. Thank you for inviting me to this important session of the cross-party parliamentary league for ...

The U.N. human rights chief has expressed concern about a “fundamental shift in direction” taking place in the United States ...

The Algerian authorities have maintained their repression of civic space through a brutal crackdown on the rights to freedom ...

I put it on record that we are not fighting ourselves; we are not fighting the war. So respect for human rights remains ...

Since Thursday, more than 1,000 people—including Christian minorities and Alawites, the sect to which Assad belongs—have been killed, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) and ...

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has said the human rights violations, including killings and ...