UNHCR
From Gaza to Europe, via jet ski: Muhammad Abu Dakha's daring escape story
Abu Dakha crossed the Rafah border point into Egypt in April 2024, paying $5,000.
UNHCR faces funding shortfall, plans major budget cuts and office closures
Syrian returns from Lebanon to start under UN-backed plan, marking major shift
Chained, beaten, starved: Idit Ohel appeals to UN Human Rights Council for release of her son
UN opens Israeli war crimes probe following Gaza war, calls for embargo
Following Operation Guardian of the Walls against Gaza terrorist groups, for the first time ever the UNHRC has created a permanent fact-finding mission regarding a UN member state.
UNHRC strengthens call for arms embargo against Israel
This is the four year in a row that the UNHRC has dealt with the issue.
US: UNHRC should address 'disproportionate focus on Israel'
The decision is part of a larger policy stance by US President Joe Biden to engage with international institutions, that is diametrically opposite Trump's position of shunning such bodies.
UN says 11,000 have fled Ethiopia to Sudan, 50% of them children
About 7,000 of those crossing have arrived at Hamdayat in Sudan's Kassala state, with another 4,000 arriving at Luqdi in al-Qadarif state.
Saudi Arabia’s failed UNHRC bid not just about human rights - analysis
Observers of United Nations affairs cite need for major reforms regarding way countries are elected to rights council.
UN makes mockery of its Human Rights Council
“It’s logically absurd and morally obscene that the UN is about to elect to its top human rights body a regime that herded 1 million Uighurs into camps."
UNHRC members call for annual updates to settlement blacklist
The list was presented to the UNHCR on Monday, following a delay caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Islamist insurgency in Mozambique escalates attacks, beheadings reported
"They speak of men, in particular, being targeted and beheaded and many, many reports of women and children ... being kidnapped or simply disappearing," a UNHCR spokesperson told a briefing in Geneva
Syria has right to recover the Golan Heights from Israel, envoy tells UNHRC
“Our country in no way recognizes any of the administrative measures taken by the Israeli occupying power in the Syrian Golan,” Syria's ambassador to the UNHRC said.
Criminalizing Israel’s right to self-defense in Gaza - analysis
Until the ICC formally drops the matter, just the specter of possible ICC prosecution gives additional weight to any UN activity or report that speaks to war crimes.
