#direitos humanos

Activist Joshua Wong in Hong Kong on 29 October 2019, the day the local government barred him from standing for election.

Joshua Wong sentenced to 10 more years in prison in Hong Kong for colluding with foreign forces

Displaced women sell charcoal at a market in El Fasher, capital of North Darfur, in 2015.

A year after it fell, El Fasher holds between 40,000 and 60,000 people in a city of more than 300,000

The UN flag on the facade of the Palais Wilson in Geneva, home of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, in 2020.

UN staff member dies in Houthi custody in Yemen, and rights chief demands an independent investigation

The Palace of Nations in Geneva in October 2014. It is the UN's European headquarters, home to the Human Rights Council and the commissions of inquiry it creates.

UN commission says the ceasefire has not stopped genocidal acts in Gaza, and Israel denies it

The Palais des Nations in Geneva, the UN's European headquarters and home of the Human Rights Office, in 2014.

UN documents 1,004 cases of sexual violence in the war in Ukraine, 89% attributed to Russian authorities

A Tomahawk missile launches from the destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur during a naval exercise in the Pacific in 2019. The UN report examines strikes by missiles of this type on targets in Iran in February 2026.

UN mission finds grounds to believe the US committed a war crime in Iran school strike