Human Rights Council

UN rights chief says Taliban decree expands executions, deepens repression

The Taliban has restricted women's movements and barred girls from education beyond primary school since coming to power in 2021, via a series of morality laws limiting expression and employment.

An Afghan Taliban fighter sits on a tank near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in Spin Boldak, Kandahar Province, following exchanges of fire between Pakistani and Afghan forces
Jeffrey Epstein is seen in this image released by the Department of Justice in Washington, DC, US, on December 19, 2025 as part of a new trove of documents from its investigations into the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Allegations in Epstein files may amount to 'crimes against humanity,' UN experts say

United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese listens during a conference on "A Cartography of Genocide: Israel's Conduct in Gaza since October 2023", an investigative project on Israeli-Palestinian conflict, at the Roma Tre University, in Rome, Italy, October 6, 2025.

European countries slam Francesca Albanese, France demands resignation from UN Human Rights Council

A protester waves the pre-Islamic Revolution Iranian flag outside UN headquarters during a United Nations Security Council meeting on Iran in New York on January 15, 2026.

'Nuremberg moment': UN Human Rights Council adopts motion for probe into Iran protest violence


U.S. slams UNHRC on Israel, Iran

“It is unacceptable that the HRC treats Israel differently from every other UN member.”

Overview of the United Nations Human Rights Council is seen in Geneva, Switzerland June 6, 2017.

Turn Israel into pariah state to 'end occupation,' UN official urges

Lynk urged the international community to end military, economic, academic and other forms of cooperation with Israel to ostracize it unto political change.

The United Nations GA filled with Israeli flags during anti-BDS summit

UNHRC pressures Israeli company to cut off internet services to settlements

The UN Human Rights Council has been accused of blackmailing Bezeq, an telecommunications company that services West Bank settlements.

Israeli pedestrians stand on a roadside near the West Bank Jewish settlement of Efrat

Israeli adviser to Human Rights Committee seeks the positive, fights the negative

During his time on the committee, Shany has seen countries enact “very weird claims [that] push the borders of logic.”

Overview of the United Nations Human Rights Council is seen in Geneva, Switzerland June 6, 2017.