GENEVA (Reuters) -The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold an urgent debate in Geneva on Tuesday on Israel's September 9 attack targeting Hamas leaders in Qatar, the Council said on Monday.

The United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva has scheduled an emergency debate on Israel's internationally criticized attack on Hamas leaders in Qatar last week. The debate, convened at the ...

On May 12, white South Africans arrived in the United States under refugee status granted by the Trump administration. The U.S. president has stated that the group faces “genocide” in South Africa.

*This brief has been updated to reflect new Concluding Observations made by UN Treaty Bodies as of July 8, 2025. Tax policy is inextricably bound up with governments’ human rights obligations. Under ...

The funding cuts are part of a broader budget realignment.

U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un talk before a meeting in the Demilitarized Zone on June 30, 2019, in Panmunjom, Korea. Human rights issues—from equal treatment for ...

The revived Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, which seeks to criminalise LGBTQ+ activities and advocacy, is being sponsored by 10 lawmakers from both sides of the political divide – an ...

A bill under consideration by the Korean National Assembly could have ramification on businesses and their human rights obligations around the world. South Korea is considering legislation that would ...

(Washington, DC) – The Trump administration’s new US State Department structure may further hamstring rights and justice-related work, with programming already decimated by foreign aid cuts, Human ...

The US State Department on Tuesday released a pared-down version of its annual report meant to catalogue human rights concerns in countries around the world. The report covers the 2024 calendar year – ...