The head of the United Nations human rights office called on Friday for Syria's interim authorities to ensure accountability ...

Every day, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is supposed to stand up for people who've lost everything, families caught in war, hunger, or oppression. Yet, ...

The interim government has clarified that the main objective of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for ...

Srilanka, June 24 -- Volker Turk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, held a meeting with Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya, at the Prime Minister's Office yesterday.

There has been an increase in killings of and attacks against Palestinians by settlers and security forces in the occupied ...

To establish these offices, the OHCHR negotiates a comprehensive mandate with host governments, encompassing both the protection and promotion of human rights ...

The government says the mission’s role is to address and prevent grave human rights violations, not to advance any foreign agendas that fall outside the country’s established legal, social and cultura ...

“Targeting legal professionals solely for performing their role in the justice system or exercising their freedom of ...

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

The US is imposing sanctions against a senior UN official focused on the human rights of Palestinians, US Secretary of State ...

The government of El Salvador has formally asserted it is the U.S., not the Central American nation, that retains “legal ...

The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Tuesday raised concerns over the Saba Saba day ...