UN rights chief laments 'shift in direction' in U.S.

The United Nations Environment Programme on Monday said a new round of negotiations toward a global plastics treaty will take ...
Dissidents from across the globe gathered in Geneva to speak about their experiences fighting oppressive regimes. Family and ...
The current government’s first engagement with a UN treaty body reporting process ... meeting with the NGO delegation before leaving for Geneva. Previous government delegates, in fact, have ...
UN chief Antonio Guterres, at the Geneva meeting, said human rights around the world were being "suffocated" and made reference to horrifying abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
India criticized UN human rights chief's comments on Kashmir and Manipur, describing them as unfounded. Ambassador Arindam ...
India slammed the “unfounded and baseless” comments made by the UN’s human rights chief, who mentioned Kashmir and Manipur in his global update, with Delhi voicing concern over the update’s ...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk yesterday hoped that their recent independent fact-finding report will ...
GENEVA - Rwanda-backed M23 rebels launching an offensive in east Congo abducted at least 130 sick and wounded men from two hospitals in the city of Goma last week, the United Nations said on Monday.