Today, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) expressed concern at the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights’ ...

Human rights defenders rallied on Thursday to support the top U.N. expert on Palestinian rights, after the United States ...

Rubio accused U.N. Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese of leading “political and economic warfare” against the U.S. and Israel.

The Human Rights Council is the main inter-governmental body within the United Nations system responsible for addressing situations of human rights violations. The Council also receives thematic ...

At a meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council, the European Union sought to draw attention to abuses in China, only to be blocked by Greece, which is courting Chinese investment. By Nick ...

Italian human rights lawyer sanctioned by US? - An independent investigator is being sanctioned by United States over her ...

THE OBAMA administration, which has made the use of the United Nations Human Rights Council a signature piece of its diplomacy, has been celebrating the results of the council's latest session in ...

Delivered July 26, 2007. Since the birth of the United Nations, protecting and advancing fundamental human rights has been one of the organization's primary objectives.

Russia is campaigning for a return to the United Nations’ Human Rights Council – after being suspended just last year for invading Ukraine.

The hope that a new U.N. Human Rights Council would rectify the U.N.'s poor record of holding human rights abusers to account has, thus far, proven illusory (Delivered September 6, 2006) ...

“It is a massive source of embarrassment to the United Nations that some governments with egregious human rights records sit on the U.N. Human Rights Council,” Trump told the U.N. General ...