Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office postponed a cabinet meeting to approve a cease-fire and hostage release ...

Interim Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib meets with United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk ...

The human rights record of The Gambia will be examined by the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group for the fourth time on Tuesday, 21 January 2025, in a ...

Human Rights First is pleased to announce that Scott Busby, a distinguished expert and advocate with over 30 years of experience in human rights, refugee protection, and migration issues, has joined ...

UN chief Antonio Guterres has welcomed the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, describing the deal as a "critical ...

Demonstrators in Tel Aviv calling for the release of the hostages embraced as news of the agreement spread, while thousands ...

UN chief Antonio Guterres has welcomed the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, describing the deal as a “critical first step” and urging parties to “seize this opportunity” to establish a ...

Agreement outlines temporary halt to 15 months of bloodshed that has left 46,000 Palestinians dead and return of hostages to families ...

US president Joe Biden says he’s ‘deeply satisfied’ for people of Israel, hostage families and innocent people of Gaza ...

Bangladesh's interim government, led by Nobel Prize laureate Mohammed Yunus, has set up a commission to investigate enforced disappearances and pledged reforms and accountability for rights abuses ...

The group cited events in Bangladesh, India and South Korea as promising but also warned of eroding rights elsewhere in Asia ...

The Kamisan Action, one of the driving forces of the human rights movement, marks its 18th anniversary today, .