UNHCR
Syrian detention camp for suspected ISIS relatives nearly empty, former director says
Al-Hol, near the Iraqi border, was one of the main detention camps for relatives of suspected Islamic State fighters who were detained during the US-backed campaign against the jihadist group.
Former hostages Aviva and Keith Siegel visit Kenyan refugee camp
From Gaza to Europe, via jet ski: Muhammad Abu Dakha's daring escape story
UNHCR faces funding shortfall, plans major budget cuts and office closures
UN: Number of people forced to flee homes has risen amid COVID-19 pandemic
"In the year of COVID, in a year in which movement was practically impossible for most of us... 3 million more people have been forcibly displaced," UN High Commissioner for Refugees said.
US envoy Thomas-Greenfield balks at calling UNHRC antisemitic
Representatives quizzed Thomas-Greenfield, focusing on the UN bias against Israel, particularly at the UNHRC.
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
