Israelis and others say the allegations are baseless and slanderous, and issued by a group with a long history of bias ...

Geneva, Switzerland - Human rights organizations and legal clinics in the US and Canada this week urged the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) to ...

Two Korean experts have been elected as chairs of separate United Nations committees overseeing civil and political rights and the rights of disabled people, Seoul's Ministry of F ...

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child stated on Thursday that children are facing extreme violations of rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The committee, established to help ...

One of the main activities of the Committee on the Status of Women (CSW) annual two-week session at UN headquarters is the hosting of, and attendance at, the hundreds of side-sessions organized ...

The United Nations Human Rights Committee issued a ruling last month with the potential to expand reproductive rights in Ecuador and Nicaragua. Although it’s unclear how each country will ...

The report marked the first time a United Nations committee has found that Israel has committed genocidal acts under the Rome Statute, which created the International Criminal Court, and under the ...

A failure by the executive to appoint commissioners for the Irish language and Ulster-Scots has been criticised by a United Nations (UN) committee. The UN Committee on Economic, Social and ...

The United Nations said on Monday it was not involved in the formation of a new seven-member committee to draft a ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged Japan to stop retaliating against a UN committee for women’s rights on Tuesday. The development follows the committee’s recommendation that Japan revise its domestic law ...

The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has announced the conclusion of a three-day meeting of the Advisory ...