The Japanese government has responded to a United Nations committee's recommendation to revise a law that limits imperial succession to male offspring in the male line.

Japan is to freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations’ women’s rights panel over its recommendation that Japan’s male-only imperial succession rule should be revised from gender-equality perspecti

Japan’s response to a United Nations report concerning discrimination against women is at odds with one of its basic foreign policy principles.

Japan has hit back at a U.N. panel over its recommendation to revise the Imperial House Law by denying it access to the country's voluntary contributions to the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights.

TOKYO (AP) — Japan on Wednesday said it will freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations ... sought the U.N.’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, which manages CEDAW ...

The worsening conflict in eastern Congo has led to a surge in human rights violations including summary executions, the bombing of displacement camps, reports of gang rape and other sexual violence, the U.

Foreign Press Secretary Toshihiro Kitamura said at a press conference Wednesday that "qualifications for the Imperial throne are not included in basic human rights and do not constitute discrimination against women.

Japan on Wednesday said it will freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations’ women’s rights panel that called for an end to the country's male-only imperial succession rule. The unusual step comes in response to a report published in October by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women,

Kazakhstan should promptly express its support for and implement the recommendations made by member states at the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process, Human Rights Watch said today.

The Japanese government announces countermeasures against a U.N. committee on discrimination against women that has called for reviewing Japan's male-only imperial succession law.

The Japanese government on Wednesday announced countermeasures against a U.N. committee on discrimination against women that has call

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk expressed his ... The Austrian Türk's office mentioned some 2,400 arbitrary detentions by Maduro's regime in the ensuing protests ...