A new United Nations report reveals Nicaragua's deepening grip under co-Presidents Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo ...

A U.N. expert reports that repression in Russia is escalating, targeting civilians, journalists, and Ukrainian prisoners of ...

The UN Human Rights Council announced plans to convene an emergency session to address North Korea’s worsening human rights situation, following reports of increased executions and forced labor ...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said his agency has had to scale back its work given the financial ...

The death penalty in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is “more widely allowed by law and implemented in ...

Authoritarianism is on the march, and crucial entitlements are being rolled back ...

As the Human Rights Council prepares to look into the situation in North Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)) ...

Chen Xu, China's permanent representative to the United Nations (UN) Office at Geneva and other international organizations ...

Iran has executed at least 1,000 people so far in 2025, an NGO said on Tuesday, denouncing a "mass killing campaign" in ...

The Trump administration has chosen to retreat from UN human rights standards and processes. These decisions make Americans ...

Every four-and-a-half years, on a revolving basis, each of the 193 member countries  of the United Nations submits a report ...

The Lancet recently published two important contributions on legal accountability.1,2 Both were triggered by the 2025 landmark advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice on climate ...