New York, Jun 3 (JEN): United Nations Special Rapporteur Michel Forst on Tuesday criticized the “relentless prosecution and repression of prominent rights activists in Azerbaijan” and ca ...

New York, Jun 2 (JEN): Serious human rights violations and abuses persist in eastern Ukraine, including shelling, executions, arbitrary and illegal detentions, torture, ill-treatment, human ...

New York, Jun 2 (JEN): While some progress has been made since the first study four years ago spotlighting discrimination and violence against people based on their sexual orientation and ge ...

New York, May 30 (JEN): Welcoming Nebraska as the nineteenth state in the United States to abolish the death penalty, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) today ur ...

New York, May 30 (JEN): The United Nations refugee agency Friday welcomed the positive outcomes of a regional meeting in Thailand to resolve the advancing solutions to refugees and migrants ...

Jammu, May 29 (JEN): The international human rights watchdog Amnesty International has asked Jammu and Kashmir government to stop using pellet-firing shotguns in policing demonstrations as t ...

New York, May 29 (JEN): Addressing the graduating class at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium, where he was bestowed an honorary degree on Thursday, United Nations Secretary-Genera ...

New York, May 27 (JEN): The Security Council on Tuesday adopted a resolution extending the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) as the Horn of Africa country c ...

New York, May 27 (JEN): The top United Nations human rights official drew attention to several issues of concern on Tuesday in an informal address to the Geneva-based Human Rights Council fr ...