“State support for this treaty is an important endorsement of the multilateral human rights system.” In 2024, after 14 sessions, a dedicated UN Working Group on Ageing acknowledged existing ...

The global human rights system has treated wartime sexual violence ... Just months after the attack, in March of 2024, Israel was included in the UN Secretary-General’s annual report on sexual ...

The process reviews the human rights performance of all UN member states every four-and ... North Korea rejected were calls to abolish its system of political prison camps, end public executions ...

The United States is rebuking a United Nations decision to extend Francesca Albanese’s tenure as the U.N. special rapporteur ...

The U.N. human rights office voiced concern on Tuesday about the protection of civilians in Lebanon as Israeli military ...

Since Mariana Katzarova was appointed the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Russia in 2023, Russian authorities have consistently refused to engage with her or allow her to visit the country.

Director of International Service for Human Rights, a non-governmental organization. “We are potentially confronting a future characterized by lawlessness and raw power,” he said. The US was once the ...

Albanese, an Italian academic and human rights lawyer, was appointed to the ... of institutional antisemitism within parts of the UN system. Organizations such as the World Jewish Congress and ...

It focuses on how Canada’s immigration detention system routinely discriminates ... capacity is a fundamental human right enshrined in core United Nations human rights treaties.[ ...

UN Human Rights Office Concerned About Israeli Strikes on Civilians in Lebanon By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. human rights office voiced concern on Tuesday about the protection ...