The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has visited the notorious Sednaya prison outside Damascus.
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said the extent of atrocities committed in Syria is hard to believe and ...
The UPR is a unique mechanism of the Human Rights Council that calls for each UN Member State to undergo a peer review of its human rights records every four-and-a-half years. The UPR Working Group ...
A new study by the University of Portsmouth calls for human rights to be at the heart of any economic development.
The UN Human Rights Committee found 24 young detainees on Nauru experienced “cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment”. But are ...
UN watchdog finds refugees and asylum seekers suffered deterioration of physical and mental health in offshore detention ...
The motto of the United Nations is “peace, dignity and equality on a healthy planet”. Clearly the present state of the planet ...
Here are some of the findings from UNAIDS' new report on HIV and human rights, and what they could mean for the fight against ...