Europe’s top human rights court is set to rule Wednesday on Russia’s actions in the conflict in Ukraine, including human ...

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

The State Department's decision to impose sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur for the West Bank and ...

Lawyers for victims of human rights abuses during Peru’s armed conflict vowed to appeal to international bodies Thursday to knock down an amnesty law passed by the country’s Congress the previous ...

Arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment -- particularly during recent elections -- are among ...

The Permanent Committee for Human Rights, in collaboration with the Ministry of Interior and the Regional Office of the ...

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

Venezuela’s ruling party-controlled National Assembly has declared Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for ...

The Venezuela government-allied National Assembly unanimously declared United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ...

New York, NY — Human Rights First today deplored the State Department’s misuse of financial sanctions to target a United Nations special rapporteur on the basis of her advocacy for action by the ...

Today I am imposing sanctions on UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for her illegitimate and ...