The situation of foreign fighters and their families topped long line of concerns listed by Michelle Bachelet in her opening address to UN Human Rights Council Geneva. ... United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet at the day of the session of..…

Philippines is member of the UN Human Rights Council and thus is expected to uphold the highest standards of human rights. ... In early June, UN human rights experts denounced the staggering number of unlawful deaths and police killings and called on..…

On Monday, the United Nations' human rights chief said the military council had not responded to a request for cooperation with its office for investigating alleged human rights crimes, including the rape and sexual abuse of both women and men, in the deaths of protesters...…

Tens of thousands of captured IS group fighters and their families should be repatriated, UN human rights Michelle Bachelet said Monday, challenging France and other European countries that have been reticent to see combatants return.. ... UN Human..…

Only principled, multilateral action could adequately address those and other challenges, the High Commissioner stressed and urged Member States to support the work by all United Nations human rights bodies and to stand for a world which was based on hope and dignity – a..…

I urge Member States to support this work by all UN human rights bodies. . ..…

Four of their complaints concerning the earlier censorship and banning of 19 of their publications are pending with the United Nations Human Rights Committee (see below). . ... They then lodged complaints to the United Nations Human..…