The United Nations Human Rights Council is to launch a formal investigation into the human rights violations in the eastern ...

The United Nations leadership and its member countries need a backup plan to ensure lifesaving UN humanitarian aid and human ...

The International Criminal Court and dozens of countries on Friday condemned sanctions imposed by US President Donald Trump ...

The United Nations Human Rights Council today agreed by consensus to launch an urgent fact-finding mission and commission of ...

The U.N.’s top human rights body has condemned Rwanda’s support of rebel fighters across the border in eastern Congo and ...

The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has stated that while public anger against the ousted Awami League government is justified, violating the law is not. In a statement yesterday (6 February), the HRW ...

Previously, the UN reported that around 2,900 people had been killed and 2,880 wounded in Goma as a result of the hostilities ...

But as she slumped in a folding chair outside the gates of the British prime minister’s office on day 129 of a hunger strike, ...

More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire ...

Worse violence "may be yet to come" in the conflict-hit Democratic Republic of Congo, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order sanctioning the International Criminal Court for pursuing "illegitimate ...