The United Nations’ top human rights official called Wednesday for a “massive rethink” of immigration policies especially in the United States ahead of the World Cup.
The U.N. human rights office has expressed concerns about possible “ethnic cleansing,” warning of an acceleration of Israeli settlements and displacements of thousands of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
The U.N. human rights chief says his office is in “survival mode” as he presented an appeal for $400 million to meet its estimated needs this year.
A new U.N. rights report says that the presidential election in Uganda next week will be “marked by widespread repression and intimidation" against the opposition and others.
Venezuela's military says the U.S. operation to capture Nicolás Maduro resulted in dozens of casualties.
The U.N. Human Rights Office says in a new report that more than 1,000 civilians were killed in a three-day attack by the Sudanese paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces on Sudan's largest displacement camp.
The United Nations chief is calling on Yemen’s Houthi rebels not to prosecute detained U.N. personnel and to work “in good faith” to immediately release all detained staff from the U.N. and foreign agencies and missions.
The U.S. has imposed sanctions on four people and four firms for allegedly recruiting former Colombian military members to train soldiers for Sudan's Rapid Support Forces.
The World Health Organization's director says the death toll from drone strikes on a kindergarten and other sites in Sudan’s Kordofan state last week is now at 114 people including 63 children.
President Donald Trump had long threatened that he could order military strikes on targets on Venezuelan territory after months of attacks on boats accused of carrying drugs from the South American country.
Tens of thousands of Sudanese have fled to overcrowded camps to escape atrocities by a paramilitary force since it captured el-Fasher in the western Darfur region.
A day after Democrats dominated the first major Election Day since Donald Trump returned to the White House, the president is in Miami to speak at a forum of business leaders and global athletes about what he sees as his economic achievements.
Federal judges have ruled that the Trump administration must continue funding SNAP during the government shutdown.
Every year, tons of heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and other drugs flow around the world.
A team of experts commissioned by the U.N.'s Human Rights Council has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
Police say they arrested almost 900 protesters outside Parliament in London for defying a ban on the group Palestine Action, which the government has labeled a terrorist organization.
The U.N. human rights office says Congo’s armed forces and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have committed gang rape, sexual slavery, torture, killings of civilians and other “horrific” atrocities in eastern Congo this year.
Rwanda-backed rebels have killed at least 80 people in eastern Congo, according to Congolese authorities.
A UN report says the Taliban have tortured and threatened Afghans forcibly returned from Iran and Pakistan because of their identity or personal history.
The great-great grandson of 19th-century British prime minister William Gladstone says he “shocked and horrified” to learn about seven years ago that his ancestors were slave owners in Jamaica and Guyana.
The State Department says the United States and other countries made repeated offers to Thailand to resettle more than three dozen Uyghur men before they were deported back to China, where rights groups fear they may face torture and other abuse.
The U.N. human rights office estimates that up to 1,400 people may have been killed in Bangladesh over three weeks last summer in a crackdown on student-led protests against the now-ousted former prime minister.
Peace prospects look bleak in Myanmar as a civil war rages despite international pressure on the military four years after it seized power from an elected civilian government.
The United Nations human rights chief says weaponizing ordinary communication devices represents a new development in warfare.
Green Day will headline a United Nations Human Rights-backed global climate concert on Tuesday at the famed Fillmore in San Francisco.
The U.N. human rights office says at least 118 people have been subjected to rape and other forms of sexual violence in more than 10 months of conflict in Sudan, assaults that may amount to war crimes.
A health official says one person has been killed and at least six injured after a second day of violent unrest in the Indian Ocean island nation of Comoros.
The U.N. human rights chief is calling for an expansion in regular migration channels and search-and-rescue operations after a “steep increase” in the number of migrants and asylum-seekers making risky attempts to cross the central Mediterranean to Europe.
The U.N. General Assembly has approved veteran Austrian diplomat Volker Türk to be the global body’s human rights chief and the world’s advocate for adherence to the universal rights at a time when the office is facing harsh criticism from China for accusing Beijing of abuses against Muslim minorities.
