The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has visited the notorious Sednaya prison outside Damascus.

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk arrived in Syria's capital, Damascus, on Tuesday for the first ...

The UPR is a unique mechanism of the Human Rights Council that calls for each UN Member State to undergo a peer review of its human rights records every four-and-a-half years. The UPR Working Group ...

Here are some of the findings from UNAIDS' new report on HIV and human rights, and what they could mean for the fight against ...

Human rights should be at the heart of economic policymaking and the sustainability of our planet should be valued over ...

A new study by the University of Portsmouth calls for human rights to be at the heart of any economic development.

The UN Human Rights Committee found 24 young detainees on Nauru experienced “cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment”. But are ...

UN watchdog finds refugees and asylum seekers suffered deterioration of physical and mental health in offshore detention ...

Over the years, the UN has transformed from an institution dedicated to safeguarding human dignity into a platform where ...

The motto of the United Nations is “peace, dignity and equality on a healthy planet”. Clearly the present state of the planet ...