Human Rights Council
'Nuremberg moment': UN Human Rights Council adopts motion for probe into Iran protest violence
The motion's approval extends an independent probe into human rights abuses in Iran and calls for an urgent inquiry into the violent crackdown by authorities on protesters.
Internet restoration in Iran begins as rights groups warn of deepening crisis
How António Guterres turned ‘international law’ into a weapon against Jews - opinion
UN Human Rights Council to hold emergency meeting on Iran to discuss 'alarming violence'
Netanyahu guilty of ‘racist hate speech,’ Palestinians tell UNHRC
The UNHRC is mandated to hold a debate on alleged Israeli human rights violations during each of its meetings, which occur three times a year.
Western countries raise concerns on Saudi rights record
It was the second joint statement criticizing the kingdom read out at the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva in six months, following the first censure of Saudi Arabia at the forum in March.
Facing realism in Europe
These options can be summarized under three major policy prescriptions along which a new immigration policy would have to be designed.
U.N. created “confidential file” of alleged Israeli war criminals for ICC
Neither the United States or Israel spoke at the council, but its official issued tweets during the council meeting.
Is the UNHRC trying to force an arms embargo against Israel?
The Palestinians had hoped that the serious charges in the report would cause the International Criminal Court to open an investigation into alleged Israeli war crimes.
Netanyahu: U.N. set new hypocrisy record with Israeli war crimes allegation
"Israel rejects outright the report of the UN Human Rights Council, which sets new records of hypocrisy and lies, out of obsessive hatred of Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East.”
The U.N. and the oppressed people of the Middle East
The reality of the world and the region dictates the need for more strategic cooperation and understanding between the oppressed nations of the Middle East and Israel.
UN chief suggests options for ‘improved Palestinian protection’
Danon: The real protection the Palestinians need is from their own leaders.
First Israeli scholar ever picked as chief of U.N. Human Rights Committee
“Currently, the UN’s Human Rights Committee faces several challenges, chiefly that we live in an international climate that no longer supports human rights."
U.S. exit from U.N. Human Rights Council is long overdue
You don’t have to be a fan of the Trump administration to applaud them for the courageous and principled stance they have taken at the UN since entering office.
