The violence in Myanmar began when Rohingya militants attacked police posts in Rakhine. More than 300,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Ban...

Air raids on Islamic State group targets in Syria have left hundreds of civilians dead since 2014.

The UN's rights chief warned today that Donald Trump's statements pointed to a "dangerous" figure emerging on the world stage if he won the...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein cited Trump's views on vulnerable communities and his talk of using torture, ba...

Pak has already handed over a letter formally inviting an OHCHR team to the Pak side of the line of control, but in tandem with a mission t...

It said that High Commissioner Zeid thanked the Special Envoy for his visit to Geneva and for briefing him on "the human rights situation."

Al-Hussein had said it was "unfortunate" that access hasn't been granted yet considering the seriousness of the allegations of the use of e...

The human rights office wants its team on the ground in Kashmir to interview victims, witnesses and security forces and to independently as...

Steps such as the release of land held by the military and resolving the issue of disappearances, need to move forward faster, Zeid Ra'ad A...

"Convictions cannot be based on confessions obtained under torture and ill-treatment, or trial proceedings that fall short of international...

Sri Lankan government has been resisting foreign probe and has promised a fair probe with truth and reconciliation commission on the lines ...

A Tamil politician has asked the UNHCR for an international probe into the alleged warcrimes during the conflict with the LTTE.

UN today called the "push back" migrant ships policy of Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia as "incomprehensible and inhumane".

Lanka has appealed to the UN to delay the report so that the new govt can carry out a probe even as it agreed that such violations took pla...

Following new Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's assertion that his government would get the country's human rights house in order, sepa...

Describing the attack against French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo as an assault "on all of us", the UN office here today stressed on th...

The court's ruling in Ferguson shooting case has spotlighted fears of "institutionalised discrimination" in the country: Zeid Ra'ad Al Huss...