A United Nations letter to Colombia warns that mercury contamination from illegal gold mining in the Atrato River basin is ...

As organizations committed to civil society and open civic space, we, the undersigned, are gravely concerned by the U.S.

The Gaza Center for Human Rights reported 129 Israeli attacks since the October 10 ceasefire, resulting in 34 Palestinian ...

The latest session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, which concluded last week, offers a glimmer of hope in what ...

THE Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance on Wednesday launched the second iteration of its International Human Rights Law Certificate Course ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW), one of the world’s leading human rights organisations that had been active in Sri Lanka, on ...

President Tinubu on Saturday granted sweeping clemency and posthumous pardons to a total of 175 convicts, inmates, and deceased Nigerians, including Maryam Sanda, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Sir Herbert Macaulay, ...

The International Court of Justice, the primary judicial body of the United Nations, ruled on July 23, 2025, that a “ clean, healthy and sustainable environment ” is a human right and said in a ...

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk today called on all actors to ensure that human rights are central to recovery and peacebuilding processes, in order that the ceasefire in Gaza transforms into an ...

Iraq has been elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council for the term 2026-2028, after elections held on Tuesday in ...

Opinion: This isn’t the time for corporate general counsel to retreat from oversight. Lawyers must vigilantly guide their ...

The Human Rights Council agreed on Monday to an EU proposal to hold an urgent debate on the human rights situation in Belarus as the U.N. rights chief described "alarming" reports of repression since ...