The following input draws from our research on women’s prisons in Japan as well as Japan’s “hostage justice” system. Based on ...

As world leaders make their way back to their respective countries after the COP29 Climate Change Summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, ...

The U.N. Human Rights Office says Hamas and Israeli forces have committed war crimes and should face a "reckoning" for war ...

Qatar has been praised at the United Nations’ top human rights body for improving labor laws before the 2022 World Cup.

Some fear the convention would help legitimize authoritarian nations’ surveillance policies. The U.S. won’t formally ratify ...

Experts warn that a well-intentioned United Nations Cybercrime Treaty could backfire, criminalizing security experts and ...

North Korea’s human rights record will come under intense scrutiny, Thursday, as the United Nations Human Rights Council ...

A member of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan, Barney Afako, today commenced a five-day visit to ...

Israel has overseen the forced mass displacement of Palestinians in Gaza in a deliberate and systematic campaign that amounts ...

Nearly 7 out of 10 of the deaths in Gaza amid the yearlong war in the region were women and children, the United Nations said ...

Senior US government officials have confirmed that the Biden Administration is ready to support a United Nations treaty on ...