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.
Allegations in Epstein files may amount to 'crimes against humanity,' UN experts say
European countries slam Francesca Albanese, France demands resignation from UN Human Rights Council
'Nuremberg moment': UN Human Rights Council adopts motion for probe into Iran protest violence
U.N. expert calls for boycott of Israeli settlement products
“This occupation will not die of old age,” Michael Lynk told the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Venezuela and Libya elected to serve on the UN Human Rights Council
"The Human Rights Council continues to abandon human rights and is now in the business of protecting dictators and war crimes," said Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon.
UN report alarmed by growing antisemitism, criticizes BDS
The interim report, which the Israeli mission to the UN called "unprecedented," identified antisemitism from all sides of the political spectrum and called for action.
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.
