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Though the release of political prisoners in Myanmar is a relief to those unfairly detained and their families, the U.N. human rights office notes the military junta is still holding thousands of others in detention for opposing military rule.
Most of the world's 8 billion inhabitants prefer to stay within their nation of birth, but almost 1-in-20 have left that behind.
NGOs and humanitarian organizations, many staffed and led by women, provide critical life-saving services in Afghanistan.
A U.N. special session responded to Tehran's violence and widespread protests over 22-year-old Mahsa Amini's death.
China notched a diplomatic win with the U.N. Human Rights Council's rejection of a debate on evidence of abuses in China’s remote Xinjiang region.
A panel of U.N. human rights investigators concluded that war crimes have been committed in Ukraine during Russia's almost 7-month-old invasion.
U.N. career diplomat Volker Türk of Austria won approval to replace former U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet.
A closely watched U.N. report finds China's persecution of Muslim Uyghurs may constitute crimes against humanity.
At least 306,887 civilians were killed in the first decade of Syria's conflict "as a direct result of war operations," the U.N. human rights office estimated.
Just weeks after a trip to China that drew widespread criticism, Michelle Bachelet said she will not seek a second four-term as U.N. human rights chief.
Assassination and unlawful deportations are some of the methods that regimes use against activists and dissidents.
Michelle Bachelet acknowledged she was unable to adequately judge the situation for Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang Province.
The World Health Assembly voted to condemn and call for an immediate end to Russia's military attacks on Ukraine's hospitals, clinics and ambulances.
International investigators were directed to focus their efforts on possible war crimes by Russian soldiers near Ukraine's capital and other regions.
Polarization fueled by Fox News-like opinion media, disinformation and propaganda is battering democracies, Reporters Without Borders said.
Ukraine's president demanded full accountability for Russian forces committing the "most terrible war crimes" since World War II.
