Today the UN Human Rights Council firmly rejected Eritrea’s attempt to end scrutiny of its human rights situation. Council ...

Human Rights Watch welcomes Angola’s engagement with the UPR process and its acceptance of a significant number of recommendations, especially those related to education, justice, and legislative ...

Last week, the United Nations Human Rights Office issued its first ever guidance paper on “transnational repression,” aimed ...

HRW says Asmara’s move was an effort to distract from independent reporting on the ‘country’s dire rights record’.

The United Nations conference on financing for development should help pave the way for meaningful progress on improving ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on UN member states Thursday to renew the mandate of the independent expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender ...

Next week, the United Nations Human Rights Council will vote on renewing the mandate of the independent expert on protection ...

The government of Eritrea has been working the corridors of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva to try to end ...

The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute, Human Rights Watch, and the International Commission of Jurists, ...

One year since deployment of the first personnel of the United Nations-authorized Multinational Security Support (MSS) ...

This brief is based on an extensive analysis of how human rights treaty bodies have engaged with individual states’ ...

The withdrawal of five European countries from a longstanding and effective international treaty prohibiting antipersonnel ...