Human rights violations
Human Rights researchers resign over ‘pulled’ report accusing Israel of 'crimes against humanity'
HRW said they concluded “aspects of the research and the factual basis for our legal conclusions needed to be strengthened to meet Human Rights Watch’s high standards.”
Child among protesters sexually assaulted in Iran, rights group says
Iran had highest number of executions in over a decade, human rights report says
Iranian regime weaponizes judicial systems against Baha'i minority, Human Rights Watch claims
Analysis: Iran nuclear agreement won’t improve human rights
Rather than improving the human rights situation, more “hangings, arrests, and repression,” can instead be expected.
The urgent case for humanitarian intervention in Syria
Rights group: Israel abuses arrested Palestinian minors; IDF: Denies claim
Human Rights Watch interviewed five Palestinian minors whom the authorities arrested or detained in separate incidents for allegedly throwing rocks.
In light of the Iran deal, giving up on Europe would be a very bad move for Israel
Schabas: There is a distortion in the attention given against Israel in the UNHRC
Former UNHRC committee chair William Schabas admits that Israel has disproportionately received more human rights condemnations than all other nations combined.
Analysis: Looking at the cup half-full in UN human rights council vote
Israel was faced with a choice: either a watered-down resolution without any real operative significance that the EU countries would support, or a much tougher resolution.
The United Nations and its powers
Any attempt to impose the creation of a Palestinian state might well constitute an ultra vires act in violation of the UN Charter and international law.
Africa must leave the ICC
The ICC claims to be “economical” and to bring “swift justice,” yet it has consumed more than a billion euros in its 13-year existence and has only secured two questionable convictions.
Israel accuses UN children's rights envoy of 'improper conduct'
Israel UN Ambassador says report biased against Israel, denies Israel violations of international law.
Ambassador to UNHRC: 'Israel does not behead people, we use our heads'
Eviatar Manor spoke in advance of the upcoming report on last summer's war with Hamas, in which Israel is expected to be charged with war crimes.