U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said the extent of atrocities committed in Syria is hard to believe and ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.