Iran's FM says the UN Security Council has failed to prevent tragedies in the Gaza Strip.

The United Nations human rights office has censured Saudi Arabia over the ultraconservative kingdom’s near daily executions in recent weeks and termination of a 21-month moratorium on implementing the death penalty for drug-related offenses.

Russia has denounced the growing "bias" of the Office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), after the UN body harshly criticized the human rights situation in the country.

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) says its findings have shown the bullets that killed veteran Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh last month were fired by Israeli forces.

A number of UN agencies call on Israeli authorities to immediately release chronically ill Palestinian teenager Amal Nakhleh, who suffers from a rare neuromuscular disorder and has been held without charge for a year.

The United Nations documents “serious” human rights violations committed by Colombian security forces during a crackdown on widespread protests in the South American country earlier this year.

The young Palestinian man was killed in cold blood by Israeli forces near Damascus Gate just outside East al-Quds'Old City on Saturday.