United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk holds a press conference in Damascus, Syria Jan 15, 2025.

More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire ...

THE Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) welcomes the renewal of the International Decade for People of African Descent by the ...

MORE than 100 women were raped and burned alive during a jailbreak in the wartorn city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic ...

Local aid workers say they are trying to flee Khartoum out of fear the army will treat them as RSF collaborators.

Congo jailbreak footage shows prisoners fleeing as smoke billowed in the background, with heavy gunfire ringing out.

Israel has informed the United Nations Human Rights Council that it will follow the United States in withdrawing its ...

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories said on Thursday that Israel's decision to ...

The U.N. has published a report carrying testimonies from North Korean defectors about their home country's heightened surveillance of citizens for possession of outside information and subsequent ...

Killings and mass rape are unfortunately frequent scenes of conflict-related sexual violence that have plagued the Democratic ...

The indiscriminate nature of the Israeli army's 15-month assault on Gaza was in part due to its inability to "pinpoint Hamas ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has called for an emergency session of the UN Human Rights Council to discuss the situation in the eastern city of Goma following its seizure by M23 rebels, ...