The United Nations human rights office said on Friday (July 11) that it had recorded at least 798 killings both at aid points ...

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

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

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

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

Secretary of State Marco Rubio sanctioned the official over her recommendations to the International Criminal Court that it issue arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and ...

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 ...

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

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

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