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


Biden administration must push to reform UN Human Rights Council -opinion

The Trump administration decided to withdraw from the UNHRC in 2018, calling it “a hypocritical and self-serving organization that makes a mockery of human rights.”

US President Joe Biden speaks in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, US, March 15, 2021

Israel needs to stop arming Azerbaijan - opinion

It is disgraceful that descendants of the Holocaust are arming Azerbaijan to kill survivors of the Armenian Genocide for a fistful of dollars!

A TANK from Azerbaijan drives on a street

EU supports Israel on Golan at UNHRC as Agenda Item 7 opposition grows

German envoy Michael Frelherr von Ungern-Sternberg said that "while hundreds of thousand of Syrians suffer at the hands of the regime, this text focuses only on Israel."

President of the Human Rights Council Elisabeth Tichy-Fisslberger, wearing a protective face mask, attends the resuming of a United Nations Human Rights Council session before an urgent debate on allegations of "systemic racism, police brutality and violence against peaceful protests" in the United

UNHRC arms embargo call against Israel passes with EU OK, Bahrain absence

Those six countries that opposed the resolution were: Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Malawi and Togo.

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Nikki Haley condemns Biden decision to rejoin Human Rights Council, UNRWA

"If China, Russia, and Cuba started an organization that celebrated their tyranny in the name of human rights, would the United States want to join?"

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley delivers remarks to the press announcing the US's withdrawal from the UN's Human Rights Council at the Department of State in Washington, US, June 19, 2018

Blinken: US to run for UNHRC seat, abolish anti-Israel bias

"We urge the Human Rights Council to look at how it conducts its business. That includes its disproportionate focus on Israel."

Newly confirmed U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives for a welcome ceremony at the State Department in Washington, U.S., January 27, 2021.

Can the US under Biden change the UNHRC? - opinion

Only a superpower like the United States can initiate change within the body.

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White supremacy, neo-Nazism are transnational threat, Guterres tells UNHRC

"Today, these extremist movements represent the number one internal security threat in several countries," the UN head told the virtual meeting of the council, headquartered in Geneva.

Members of the Ku Klux Klan rally in support of Confederate monuments in Charlottesville, Virginia, US, July 8, 2017

US boycotts fail to shake UNHRC’s anti-Israel bias

The UN as an organization has never found a formula that both allows for full democratic participation of all member states, while at the same time protecting against undue bias.

United Nations' High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet adjusts her glasses during the opening of 45th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European UN headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland September 14, 2020.

US rejoins UN Human Rights Council, reversing Trump's withdrawal

Secretary of State Antony Blinken and a senior US diplomat in Geneva announced on Monday that Washington has returned to the UN Human Rights Council as an observer.

UN HIGH COMMISSIONER for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet makes a speech at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, in February.