U.N. human rights Archives

November 14, 2025 3:35 PM

UN rights council considers fact-finding mission in emergency session on Sudan

The U.N. Human Rights Council held a special session on Friday on the situation in al-Fashir, Sudan, in which states will consider a request for a fact-finding mission on mass killings during the fall of the Darfur city to paramilitary forces. The f...

September 16, 2025 4:52 PM

UN rights chief tells Israel to ‘stop the carnage’ as Gaza City ground assault begins

The U.N. Human Rights Chief called on Israel to immediately stop its ground assault on Gaza City that got underway on Tuesday, saying that evidence was mounting of war crimes, crimes against humanity and possibly more. "I can only think of what it m...

November 8, 2024 5:47 PM

Nearly 70% of verified Gaza war dead women and children, UN rights office says

The U.N. Human Rights Office said on Friday nearly 70% of the fatalities it has verified in the Gaza war were women and children, and condemned what it called a systematic violation of the fundamental principles of international humanitarian law. Th...

October 15, 2024 7:03 PM

U.N. refugee agency says 25% of Lebanon under Israeli evacuation orders

The U.N. human rights office said on Tuesday it had received reports that most of the 22 victims of an Israeli air strike on a building in northern Lebanon were women and children. "What we are hearing is that amongst the 22 people killed were 12 wo...

July 9, 2024 6:01 PM

UN probing reported mass grave on Libya-Tunisia border

The U.N. human rights chief said on Tuesday that his office was following up on reports of a mass grave in the desert along the Libya-Tunisia border, after the bodies of at least 65 migrants were found at another site earlier this year. In a speech,...

July 2, 2024 5:47 PM

Wife of Pakistan’s Imran Khan gets bail in graft case, media say

A special court in Pakistan's city of Rawalpindi granted interim bail on Tuesday to the wife of former Prime Minister Imran Khan in a graft case, media outlet ARY News said. Khan, in jail since last August, was convicted in some cases ahead of Febru...

October 6, 2023 4:54 PM

Mohammadi’s Nobel Peace Prize highlights courage of Iranian women, UN rights office says

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said on October 6 that the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to jailed activist Narges Mohammadi highlighted the courage and determination of Iranian women. "We've seen their c...