
As Tigray seethes, NGO reveals state-led campaign against WHO chief
The Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa said the health leader was "targeted by an Ethiopian government investigation that appears to have been politically motivated."
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The Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa said the health leader was "targeted by an Ethiopian government investigation that appears to have been politically motivated."
'The path to justice for his killing remains fully blocked,' said Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnès Callamard.
A new report's evidence of threats and retaliation extends to 12 of the U.N. Human Rights Council's 47 member nations.
The panel said it found evidence of human rights abuses on both sides, but those by Russia far outweigh those by Ukraine.
Dow Jones’ lawyers want the working group to use its mandate from the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva to investigate the reporter's highly politicized case.
At the end of a weeklong visit, the U.N. investigator's findings of an orchestrated state policy contradict Moscow’s denials.
Education Cannot Wait said Afghan girls are the "furthest behind" in efforts to erase poverty and reduce inequality.
Panel members said they were deeply concerned about the deteriorating security in the northwest region of Ethiopia.
The treaty body that gets the worst cooperation is the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Delegates in Geneva mustered a non-binding report that essentially prolongs a decade-old geopolitical impasse.
More than half of the deaths were never documented due to the difficulty of collecting reliable data on death tolls in conflict zones, made still harder by the brutality of Syria's war.
Panel members said they heard countless painful stories from victims and their families but also learned of some promising initiatives against racial discrimination.
The report's alleged war crimes in Ukraine include killings, torture, rape, kidnapped children and attacks on civilians.
A quarter of all humanity lives today in places that are affected by conflict and usually it's the civilians 'who suffer the most.'
A U.N. special session responded to Tehran's violence and widespread protests over 22-year-old Mahsa Amini's death.
The U.N. appointed a special rapporteur to examine Russia's human rights records in light of its crackdowns on dissent over its war in Ukraine.