The Swiss government is not doing enough to defend Geneva-based international organisations and NGOs whose operations are threatened ...

The United Nations has urged the international community to respond to what it called human rights violations by Nicaraguan ...

Nicaragua announced on Thursday it would withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council, following a UN report that ...

Philippe Lazzarini warns of a renewed hunger crisis unless aid and electricity supplies resume.

The U.N. human rights chief has expressed concern about a “fundamental shift in direction” taking place in the United States ...

Faced with an impending cash crisis primarily due to non-payment of dues by the US and over 100 other member states- along with threats of a US withdrawal from the world body- there were widespread ...

In his opening remarks at the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy, UN Watch Executive Director ... the question" of replacing the institution, "rather than merely reforming it." ...

The institution could be established under the UN, with the attending parties suggesting ... In the view of the upcoming enlarged meeting on Cyprus in Geneva, from March 17 until March 18, the ...

GENEVA — The United Nations human rights chief has expressed concern about a "fundamental shift in direction" taking place in ...

Addressing the 58th regular session of the UN Human Rights Council, Arindam Bagchi, India's permanent representative to the UN in Geneva ... "India's democracy and institutions have been its ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk warned on Monday that escalating conflicts and deepening societal divisions are fueling 'turbulence and unpredictability' across the globe.

Geneva - The African Network of National Human Rights Institutions (NANHRI), which convened its General Assembly on Monday at Geneva's Palais des Nations, officially endorsed the candidacy of the ...