UNHCR
UN rights chief says civilians are bearing the brunt of fighting in Yemen
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said his office has documented the killing of 32 civilians, including 15 children and 3 women, since August in fighting.
Standoff with Trump administration sidelines UN refugee agency deputy, sources say
Yemen conflict displaces 112,000 people inside country, thousands flee to Djibouti, UN agency says
Over 100,000 displaced by Houthis as escalation with Saudi-backed Yemeni government continues
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
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.