North Korean escapee Kim Eun-joo spoke at a high-level U.N. General Assembly meeting on North Korean human rights Tuesday, warning that "silence is complicity." Screenshot/UN Web TV May 21 (UPI) ...

The resolution “The situation of human rights in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, including the Autonomous ...

Human Rights Watch is grateful for the opportunity to address the Committee on Budget and Finance of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute, and we appreciate the Committee’s openness to ...

The third day of the United Nations General Assembly meeting kicked off in New York City on Thursday, with leaders from countries all over the world speaking about pressing issues, such as climate ...

What did you learn from Human Rights Watch’s videos this year? Whether you watched HRW advocates address the European ...

The U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution Thursday accusing the Taliban of violating the human rights of Afghan women and girls, failing to establish a representative government, and plunging the ...

When the United Nations General Assembly, in 2010, affirmed that ‘the right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation’ ...

# TODAY, December 10, is Human Rights Day. And the theme this year is “Human Rights, Our Everyday Essentials.” This theme was set by the United Nations to “re-engage people with human rights by ...

Let me begin by thanking the President of the Human Rights Council for the honour and privilege of addressing this High-Level Panel. Today’s focus – harnessing multilateral efforts to embed, amplify ...

Chairing the United Nations Human Rights Council would help Indonesia to initiate new international conventions linking human ...

The UN General Assembly adopted an updated resolution on the human rights situation in Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine, including Crimea and Sevastopol, according to Ukrainian Foreign Minister ...