Human Rights Council

How UN ‘human rights experts’ became a tool of dictatorships - opinion

The corruption of the system did not happen overnight. As dictatorships gained influence inside the UNHRC, they learned they need not abolish the language of human rights to weaken it.

Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, attends a news conference during the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, March 24, 2026.
People and rescue forces work following an Israel strike on a school in Minab, Iran, February 28, 2026.

Primary school strike prompts Iran to request urgent UN Human Rights debate

United Nations' Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran Mai Sato delivers her report before delegates of the UN Human Rights Council, in Geneva on March 16, 2026.

Violent suppression, human rights violation: UN rapporteur submits report on Iran’s Jan. protests

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

UN rights chief says Taliban decree expands executions, deepens repression


Amb. Haley slams ‘foolish’ UNHRC after it passes 5 anti-Israel resolutions

Haley also warned that the US is still weighing whether it plans to remain on the council, adding that Friday’s resolutions was another blow to the institution’s “credibility.”

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks at UN headquarters in New York

UN Human Rights Council approves call for arms embargo against Israel

The council approved five anti-Israel resolutions during the Geneva body's 37th session.

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

'What if I paid to butcher your fathers?' terrorism victim asks UNHRC

Avni to UNHRC: “The Palestinian Authority actually has a pay-to-slay law. Palestinians systematically pay terrorists to murder Jews."

Bus flipped by tractor in Jerusalem terror attack.

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.