An independent expert has urged Australia to "make sure that things are done properly", while Woodside pushed back against ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Friday urged countries and tech companies to establish effective regulation of online platforms to better protect children. The appeal comes with ...

Egypt and Vietnam are on track to secure seats on the United Nations Human Rights Council despite being woefully unfit for membership, Human Rights Watch said today. The UN General Assembly will elect ...

A group of United Nations ⁠human-rights ⁠experts has asked Starbucks and ⁠the U.S. government to respond to allegations that Starbucks has carried out ​a years-long campaign against workers seeking to ...

29 May 2026 | Human Rights At least 26 Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip since Tuesday – the eve of one of the most important holidays in Islam – the UN human rights office, OHCHR, reported ...

The Federal Court of Australia has admitted a UN special rapporteur on human rights and environment as an intervenor in a judicial review case on a liquefied natural gas (LNG) operation site, ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Friday called for more robust measures by both States and tech companies to make online platforms safer for children, insisting on effective ...

The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has released an important new report about North Korea’s human rights situation and OHCHR’s work in the past two years to ...

President Trump’s unconventional address to the United Nations General Assembly last week was short on specifics, but his administration’s recent actions have changed America’s human rights policy in ...

UN accused of ‘rewarding’ major human rights abuses by appointing ambassador Ali Bahreini as chairman of a key forum James Rothwell is The Telegraph’s Berlin correspondent. He joined in 2014 and has ...

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GENEVA – The United Nations Human Rights Council today called on the United States to resume its cooperation with the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a mechanism that calls for each UN Member State ...