Unhrc

'Nuremberg moment': UN Human Rights Council adopts motion for probe into Iran protest violence

The motion's approval extends an independent probe into human rights abuses in Iran and calls for an urgent inquiry into the violent crackdown by authorities on protesters.

A protester waves the pre-Islamic Revolution Iranian flag outside UN headquarters during a United Nations Security Council meeting on Iran in New York on January 15, 2026.
Workers prepare AIS boxes at a World Food Programme (WFP) facility in Damascus countryside, Syria, July 29, 2025.

UN food agency warns of deepening hunger crisis as funding falls short

During today’s September session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, two video statements were screened on behalf of families of hostages held in Gaza. on September 17th, 2025.

'Torn apart, held in darkness, denied food, medicine, and dignity': Hostage families speak at UNHRC

 Deputy Minister, Alvin Botes delivers a National Statement at the Annual High Level Panel on Human Rights Mainstreaming under the theme “Thirty years of implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child: challenges and opportunities”, at the UNHRC, Geneva.

UN Human Rights Council to hold urgent debate on Israeli airstrike on Qatar


UNHRC President: Jewish Lobby remark is reasonably considered antisemitic

Since Kothari’s interview, a number of countries have spoken out against his remarks including the United States, the Czech Republic, Germany, Great Britain, France and Canada.

Pro Israel rally outside UNHRC in Geneva‏

UN official: Social media largely controlled by Jewish lobby, NGOs

“Israel has no intention of ending the occupation and the persistent discrimination against the Palestinians lies at the heart of the systematic recurrence of violations," Kothari said. 

 Deputy Minister, Alvin Botes delivers a National Statement at the Annual High Level Panel on Human Rights Mainstreaming under the theme “Thirty years of implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child: challenges and opportunities”, at the UNHRC, Geneva.

UN violated its own rules, appointed biased commissioners against Israel - opinion

Navi Pillay (the chair of the commission), Christopher Sidoti and Milton Kothari all have blatant paper trails of vitriolic anti-Israel rhetoric and actions.

 CHRISTOPHER SIDOTI is a consultant to the Australian Centre for International Justice, a rabidly anti-Israel organization that publicly demanded Australia support the BDS movement, says the writer.

UN appears to be furthering Hamas’s agenda - opinion

The UN appears to have come to Hamas’s aid when it comes to absolving the group of wrongdoing and scapegoating Israel.

Pro Israel rally outside UNHRC in Geneva‏

Mock funeral protests UNHRC anti-Israel bias

The procession was part of a larger StandWithUs campaign to protest the UNHRC’s most recent and most dangerous act, which is part of its systemic anti-Israel bias in the United Nations.

 ONE OF the long-robed, hooded pall bearers marches with a casket outside UN Headquarters in New York to protest the Human Rights Council’s anti-Israel bias.

14 Days: Free trade

Israeli news highlights from the past two weeks.

 Signing a UAE-Israel free trade agreement

Israeli NGO, families of terror victims urge US to pull out of UNHRC

The letter calls on the US to fulfill its pledge of combating the UNHRC's anti-Israeli bias • Letter follows the publication of the Commission of Inquiry that criticized Israel

 Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Room of the Palace of Nations, Geneva (Switzerland). It is the meeting room of the United Nations Human Rights Council.

Israel signs statement against China's treatment of Uighurs at UNHRC

This is the second year in a row that Israeli has signed onto such a statement.

 An ethnic Uyghur woman holds an East Turkestan flag and a placard that reads, "Genocide is undisguisable, can't be erased from history" during a protest against China near the Chinese Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, May 26, 2022.

US slammed for building 22-member bloc against UNHRC probe on Israel

"The US should not be a member of this Council and we call on the UN General Assembly to suspend its membership," PLO Ambassador Khraishi said.

UNHRC 521

22 nations oppose UNHRC probe, Pillay calls for arms embargo against Israel

No vote was required with respect to this first annual report, but Israel together with the United States garnered a list of 22 UN nations including themselves who opposed the COI.

 A general view of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, June 13, 2022.