The Latest Breaking News from OHCHR

Deadly catalogue of killings continues unchecked despite hopes raised by election of centre-left female president

The U.N. human rights office (OHCHR) said on Monday it had recorded 2,421 civilian casualties in Ukraine - 925 killed and 1,496 injured - as of midnight on March 20.

The close connection between migration, human rights and climate change is increasingly self-evident, as "natural disasters" related to that linkage loom in many parts of the world. The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) estimates that about 22.5 million people migrate each year within and across…

The U.N. human rights office (OHCHR) said on Monday it had confirmed the deaths of at least 636 civilians in Ukraine through to March 13, including 46 children.

Two weeks after Russia’s tanks first rolled into Ukraine both sides have suffered hundreds of casualties while two million people have fled

A number of United Nations agencies called for the immediate release of a seriously ill Palestinian child detained in Israel. Israel has extended the detention of Amal Nakhleh until May 18 without charge or trial. He was 17 years old when Israel arrested him and has been in administrative detention…