New York: Activist Lily Harding feels that Xinjiang region in China is likely to become another Bangladesh (read get liberation like Bangladesh got in 1971) as the people of the area drea ...
Islamabad: Pakistan's National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) is still not functioning even after a year since its first term ended.
New York : Dozens of independent UN human rights experts stressed on Thursday that in addition to public health and emergency measures, battling the COVID-19 pandemic, must respect the fu ...
New York, Progress that destroys traditional culture, language, land and human heritage “is not development, but willful destruction”, the UN Deputy High Commissioner for Huma ...
New York: The United Nations expert on free expression has condemned President Donald Trump’s repeated attacks on the press, warning that the US leader’s rhetoric is eroding p ...
New York: Galal El Behairy has been held in detention since February after penning a song critical of Egypt’s policies, prompting United Nations human rights experts on Thursday to ...
New York: Iceland has for the first time been elected to the Human Rights Council, filling the seat vacated by the United States, which withdrew from the body last month, citing bias.
Washington: In a major move, the United States has pulled out of the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Male/Beijing: While Maldives is roiled by a political crisis with the imposition of Emergency by President Yameen amid desperate requests of the island nation's opposition leaders for ...