UN, Syria and human rights
Sarah Yager is Washington Director at Human Rights Watch. She worked on human rights under three U.S. presidents and from ...
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said the extent of atrocities committed in Syria is hard to believe and ...
Here are some of the findings from UNAIDS' new report on HIV and human rights, and what they could mean for the fight against ...
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 ...
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk called on Wednesday for a Syrian national reconciliation process to ...
A joint statement urged the military regime and all armed actors in Burma to de-escalate violence, respect international human rights laws, protect civilians, and allow full, safe, and unimpeded ...
Al-Qaradawi’s family seeks Lebanese PM’s intervention to prevent his deportation to Egypt, fearing risks to his life. The PA’s ban on Al Jazeera is part of a broader crackdown on those ...
Idaho’s landscape is complex and contradictory. Our state is a place where the breathtaking beauty of the land often stands ...
BAKU (Reuters) - Azerbaijani human rights activist Bakhtiyar Hajiyev was sentenced by a Baku court to 10 years in prison on Monday on an array of corruption and other charges that he denied, his ...
These words of UN Secretary-General Guterres underlie UNODC’s commitment to support States in strengthening their capacities ...
The Utah Martin Luther King Jr. Human rights Commision aims to share the principles and philosophies of the late Dr. King. With Martin Luther King ...