GENEVA, September 25 (Reuters): Western powers called on China on Friday to restore basic legal rights in Hong Kong and open up to scrutiny its remote Xinjiang region where more than one million ethnic Uig
GENEVA, September 18 (Reuters): Belarus opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya demanded on Friday an international mission to document what she called "atrocities" during crackdowns on anti-g
GENEVA, June 19 (Reuters): The U.N. Human Rights Council on Friday condemned discriminatory and violent policing after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last month and ordered a report on "
GENEVA, June 16 (Reuters): African countries are lobbying to set up a United Nations commission of inquiry into "systemic racism" and "police brutality" in the United States and other p
GENEVA, June 15 (Reuters): The top U.N. human rights body will hold an urgent debate on allegations of "systemic racism, police brutality and violence against peaceful protests" in the United Sta