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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.

Rawya Hassan, a mother of seven, sits with her children outside their hut at the al-Bireen camp for displaced people who fled fighting between the Houthis and forces of Yemen's internationally recognized government in Taiz province, Yemen, September 17, 2026.
FILE PHOTO: Tressa Rae Finerty, Charge d'Affaires for the US Mission to the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva, leaves the Four Seasons Hotel des Bergues Geneva on the day of US-mediated peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, in Geneva, Switzerland, February 26, 2026

Standoff with Trump administration sidelines UN refugee agency deputy, sources say

Women use donkeys to transport water jerrycans to the al-Bireen camp for displaced people who fled fighting between the Houthis and forces of Yemen's internationally recognized government in Taiz province, Yemen, September 17, 2026.

Yemen conflict displaces 112,000 people inside country, thousands flee to Djibouti, UN agency says

Staff walk towards a boat carrying refugees from Yemen, fleeing clashes between Houthi fighters and Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces, after arriving in Djibouti, September 12, 2026, in this screen grab taken from a video.

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.

US AMBASSADOR to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield holds a news conference at UN headquarters in New York last week.

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.

Overview of the Human Rights Council one day after the U.S. announced their withdraw at the United Nations in Geneva,

UNHRC strengthens call for arms embargo against Israel

This is the four year in a row that the UNHRC has dealt with the issue.

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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.

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet attends a session of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland

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.

The Blue Nile flows into the Great Renaissance Dam in Guba Woreda, Ethiopia

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.

Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights addresses a news conference at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland March 9, 2018. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

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."

Overview of the Human Rights Council one day after the U.S. announced their withdraw at the United Nations in Geneva,

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.

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet. Geneva, Switzerland June 15, 2020

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

Burnt-out huts are seen at the scene of an armed attack in Chitolo village, Mozambique, July 10, 2018. Picture taken July 10, 2018.

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.

Overview of the Human Rights Council one day after the U.S. announced their withdraw at the United Nations in Geneva,