Kazakhstan should promptly express its support for and implement the recommendations made by member states at the UN Human ...

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As violence and urban combat escalate within Goma, civilians face grave risks – including from the use of explosive weapons ...

Ethiopian authorities have shut down two more prominent human rights organizations in recent weeks as part of their escalating crackdown against civil society.

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk warned on Friday that Sudanese civilians were in greater peril than ever ...

Mr Kumar Iyer CMG has been appointed the UK's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN, WTO and other International Organisations based in Geneva. Mr Kumar Iyer ... These include the UN Human ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — The United Nations human rights chief on Wednesday called for the lifting of Western sanctions imposed on Syria over its yearslong civil war, now that former leader Bashar ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has dismissed media reports suggesting that Zambia has been blacklisted from the United Nations Human Rights Council for alleged failure to uphold human rights ...

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A UN committee has found that Australia violated a human rights treaty by detaining a group of asylum seekers, including minors, on Nauru even after they were granted refugee status. The UN has ...

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