The 15-member U.N. Security Council, of which the U.S. is one of five permanent members, is charged with maintaining international peace and security ...

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The United States' largest animal protection organization took a bold leap on Thursday and changed its historic name.

A number of prominent companies have scaled back or set aside the diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that much of corporate America endorsed following the protests that accompanied the Minnea ...

Volker Türk said Tuesday that his office "confirmed cases of summary execution of children by M23 after they entered the city ...

Former UN Commissioner on Human Rights Mary Robinson covered an array of topics, from the war in Ukraine to climate change, ...

Human Rights Watch announced today that the Board of Directors has named Federico Borello as interim executive director, effective immediately. Borello, the current deputy executive director and chief ...

Her marriage had been deteriorating for decades — marred, she said, by health problems and threats of violence. But when the woman filed for divorce, French courts deemed her at fault for ...

Donald Trump has positioned his administration to launch one of the most abusive and aggressive assaults on human rights in U ...

Trump signed an order withdrawing the U.S. from the UNHRC, a 47-member international institution tasked with improving human ...

Donald Trump has been offered the use of El Salvador’s infamous CECOT mega-prison as he seeks to deport criminals from the US ...

The International Criminal Court has called on member states to stand up against sanctions imposed by U.S. President Donald ...