High Commissioner Volker Türk says he has not been allowed access to inspect El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison.

The U.N. human rights office said on Friday that it had recorded at least 798 killings both at aid points run by the U.S.- ...

Lawyers in Peru are challenging a new amnesty law passed by Congress. The law grants amnesty to military members and ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday slapped personal sanctions on United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, in a bizarre through-the-looking-glass ...

Albanese should reinforce messages about abuses in Hong Kong, Xinjiang, and Tibet and urge the Chinese government to end its ...

Critics warn the law would hinder the search for truth about the victims of Peru’s decades-long armed conflict.

Italian human rights lawyer sanctioned by US? - An independent investigator is being sanctioned by United States over her work scrutinising human rights abuses in Palestinian territory ...

Haiti has been caught in a vicious and unending cycle. First, gang violence expanded westward into the Artibonite and Centre ...

Today, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) expressed concern at the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights’ ...

Human rights defenders rallied on Thursday to support the top U.N. expert on Palestinian rights, after the United States ...

United States’ sanctions against a United Nations human rights expert are unacceptable and set a dangerous precedent, said a UN spokesperson on Thursday, reported Xinhua.

Civil and political freedoms in Venezuela have sharply deteriorated over the past year, according to the United Nations’ top ...