Can human rights foster economies that promote equitable and sustainable societies? A Human Rights Economy does precisely that, by putting people and the planet at the centre of all economic decisions ...

As digital technologies rapidly reshape every aspect of society, the UN’s top human rights official has called for human ...

A quaint village in northern Jaffna is currently throwing up evidence of Sri Lanka’s gross human rights abuses and poor ...

The U.N.'s decision to hire four new staff for its controversial anti-Israel commission, despite an ongoing liquidity crisis, ...

Extreme weather events, including heatwaves, droughts, and floods, have increased in frequency by a factor of two or three ...

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

Europe is in the grip of an unprecedented heatwave, with Spain and England registering their hottest June temperatures in ...

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

There are many things that happened in this war that are clearly war crimes,” Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, says about Israel’s war on Gaza. Democracy Now!'s Amy ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is visiting the United States next week to meet with President Donald Trump and ...

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