New York, Oct 26 (JEN): Expressing concern about the potential for illegal use of armed unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, two United Nations human rights experts Friday called on States t ...

New York, Oct 25 (JEN): Victims of the violent post-election crisis that gripped Côte d’Ivoire two years ago must not be forgotten, an independent United Nations human rights expert stres ...

New York, Oct 25 (JEN): The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom Thursday denounced the murder of radio manager Cláudio Moleiro de Souza in northern Brazil ...

New York, Oct 25 (JEN): Human rights reform must be a central aspect of the new Iranian Government’s agenda, an independent United Nations expert stressed Thursday, highlighting a number o ...

New York, Oct 25 (JEN): The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Thursday called urgently on the Governments of Sudan and South Sudan to refrain from any unilateral action that could heigh ...

New York, Oct 23 (JEN): United Nations human rights experts Tuesday urged a review of the universally accepted global principles and practices for the treatment of prisoners and management o ...

New York, Oct 23 (JEN): While there have been encouraging responses to human rights concerns of indigenous peoples and to helping States and other stakeholders address them, the realities fo ...

New York, Oct 23 (JEN): The United Nations human rights office Tuesday called for the immediate release of a well-known Qatari poet who it says was harshly sentenced for a poem considered to ...

New York, Oct 19 (JEN): A United Nations independent expert, along with two other key human rights mechanisms Friday stressed the importance of partnerships as the “backbone” of global e ...