International human rights law lays down the obligations of Governments to act in certain ways or to refrain from certain acts, in order to promote and protect human rights and fundamental ...

The main opposition party claims about 700 people have been killed by security forces in election-related in protests across ...

A small group of countries led by China and Russia has repeatedly tried to block funding for human rights-related work at the ...

Successes in slowing nuclear proliferation and easing world hunger are overshadowed by political deadlock and the hostile takeover of bodies like ...

The United States will not participate in the next United Nations-administered peer review of its human rights records, the latest move in the nation’s withdrawal from the U.N. Human ...

The deliberate denial of information to 26 million Koreans living under the Kim family regime is not simply censorship -- it ...

In a strong message to Pakistan exposing its "hypocrisy", India has demanded that it end the “grave” human rights abuses as ...