Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Volker Türk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, told the U.N. Human Rights Council that conditions in ...

LONDON/GENEVA (Reuters) -The United States will not participate in a U.N. review of its human rights record, officials said, a move that rights advocates called a worrying retreat from Washington's ...

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) abruptly cut off a video statement after the speaker began criticizing several United Nations officials, including one who has been sanctioned by the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Francesca Albanese’s family sued the Trump administration Wednesday over sanctions imposed for her criticism of ...

SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Yonhap) -- South Korea has maintained its support for a U.N. resolution condemning North Korea's human rights violations, a document showed Wednesday, despite its push for ...

July 1 (UPI) --Arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment -- particularly during recent elections -- are among the human rights violations in Venezuela cited in a United ...