The political head of the body that oversees the European Convention on Human Rights has told the BBC that it is "absolutely ...

The Council of Europe’s secretary general Alain Berset told the BBC he was open to engage on migration issues over the treaty ...

GENEVA (AP) — The United States on Friday snubbed a review of its human rights record by a United Nations body on orders of ...

A U.N. meeting to review the United States' human rights record opened without the U.S. on Friday, with rights groups calling ...

As authoritarianism spikes, legal professionals are increasingly in peril because of the clients they are willing to defend, ...

Parliamentarians are making decisions today that will define Australia’s compliance with international law for years to come.

On November 7, the United States failed to participate in its UN Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a process where the human ...

“Internationally, the human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment has already been universally agreed upon ...

( NewsNation) — Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson called on the United Nations Human Rights Council to investigate alleged ...

The Australian Human Rights Commission is calling for urgent action from government and business to address the escalating impacts of climate change on Australians’ human rights.Launching its first ...

“A Human Rights Review Tribunal, steered by the Ministry of Justice’s PR department, invoking irrelevant criminal law to ...

The latest advisory opinion by the United Nations’ International Court of Justice expands the legal framework for combating ...