The United Nations leadership has launched a major reform plan to make the cash-strapped world body more efficient and cost-effective. Unfortunately, it has offered little on how this will impact the ...

Egypt and Vietnam are on track to secure seats on the United Nations Human Rights Council despite being woefully unfit for membership, Human Rights Watch said today. The UN General Assembly will elect ...

UN Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders Mary Lawlor on Monday called on the Chinese authorities to uphold the rights of human rights defenders who have been imprisoned. Lawlor said she was ...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights expressed deep concern over the situation in Venezuela following the ...

The abrupt cancellation of an independent Chinese film festival in New York reveals how Beijing and its proxies increasingly ...

People in the West say they must avoid a new Cold War without realizing that they are already in one – and China is winning. Qin Hui, professor emeritus of history and economics at Tsinghua University ...

Every four-and-a-half years, on a revolving basis, each of the 193 member countries of the United Nations submits a report to the U.N. Human Rights Council on its domestic human rights record under ...

China's persecution of ethnic Muslim minorities continues apace, a new report says, as authorities in the far-western Xinjiang region continue to expand coercive state-led programs that involve moving ...

CFR scholars provide expert analysis and commentary on international issues. Catherine Powell, an adjunct senior fellow for women and foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, is the former ...

The United States won’t participate in a United Nations review of its human rights record, arguing engaging with the process would present an endorsement of the U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC), which ...

The Uyghurs are a largely Muslim, Turkic-speaking ethnic group native to the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in ...

U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping will meet on October 30 during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Gyeongju, South Korea. Media headlines will focus on ...