UK helps Iraq on human rights

A new constitution will go to the people of Bolivia on 25 January 2009. If passed, the constitution will represent the most significant advancement of economic, social and cultural rights the country has seen in many decades.

In the past few years, Bolivia has seen...

As political parties in Zimbabwe argue between themselves about the form the new government should take, Zimbabwe's health system is on the verge of total collapse.

An outbreak of cholera is affecting nine out of Zimbabwe's ten provinces and major hospitals are failing to provide...

“When I walked out of the execution chamber, I had just watched a man electrocuted to death. He looked at my face before they killed him. The cold protocol that all the guards followed shocked me. I came outside the prison into the dark and vomited."

High Commissioner Guterres visits an Iranian camp for refugees and calls on the international community to do more to ensure they can finally go home.

We are increasingly concerned about the safety of tens of thousands of displaced Congolese civilians in the Kibati camps in the outskirts of Goma, the capital of the troubled province of North Kivu in...

Fears mount for displaced civilians at two camps in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo after a young woman is shot dead.

UNHCR sees an opportunity to use the spotlight on recent problems in Georgia to help those displaced from breakaway regions in the early 1990s.

The UN refugee agency and its partners take advantage of relative calm to step up work on a new camp for up to 30,000 displaced people in North Kivu province.

Congolese refugee returnees to South Kivu province know they face challenges, but some find the reality even tougher than they expected.

Our previous alerts have concerned the persistent problem of false charges against human rights defenders. Last week a taped telephone conversation revealed a...

The Iranian regime has stepped up its campaign against human rights defender and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi. 

On October 1, 2008, while Ebadi was in...

UPDATE: There have been two recent developments affecting freedom of expression in Egypt:

• On September 27, the Egyptian Foreign Minister addressed the U.N. with comments that...