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


How will Israel deal with diverging viewpoints with Biden?

The challenge awaiting Jerusalem now is how to coordinate and work with a new administration that does not share the ‘no daylight’ approach of its predecessor.

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during the 59th Presidential Inauguration in Washington, U.S., January 20, 2021.

US pendulum swings back into the UN Human Rights Council - analysis

Republicans snub the UNHRC, which is fixated on Israel and gives cover to dictators. Democrats seek to reform it from the inside. Has either tactic worked?

The empty seat of Israel is pictured during a session of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, 2019

UN Security Council must enforce settlement blacklist - UNHRC official

In February the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights published a list of 112 businesses which it concludes operate over the pre-1967 lines.

Michael Lynk, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Palestinian territories, attends a session of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, March 18, 2019

US slams election of abhorrent abusers to UNHRC after China gets seat

UN Watch director: Membership should be based on a nation’s human rights records, but rarely is

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

Rami Levy sues UN for defamation after placement on settlement 'blacklist'

While the UN has immunity in general, Shurat HaDin claims that this case is an exception as the UN violated its charter and practiced "pure racism on the basis of nationality and religion."

Israeli soldiers walk past Rami Levy chain store in the Israeli Sha'ar Binyamin Industrial Zone in the West Bank

UNHRC arms embargo call against Israel passes by only slim margin

Body approved the text by a 22-8 vote, with 17 abstentions

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

Pompeo accuses UN of hypocrisy after condemnation of US police brutality

"The United Nations Human Rights Council, now comprised of Venezuela and recently, Cuba and China, has long been and remains a haven for dictators and democracies that indulge them."

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addresses a news conference at the State Department in Washington, US, April 7, 2020.

UNHRC suspends Israeli-Palestinian debate due to coronavirus

The UNHRC meets three times a year. It is mandated to debate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at every session, but the passage of resolutions against Israel often takes place at the March session.

Overview of the United Nations Human Rights Council is seen in Geneva, Switzerland June 6, 2017.

Palestinians to UNHRC: Trump’s peace plan is a capitulation plan – watch

Denmark calls to eliminate Agenda Item 7

Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riad al-Malki at the United Nations Human Rights Council.

UNHRC’s game is rigged, so Israel isn’t playing - Analysis

The UNHRC is publishing this list even though the only support it received for doing so was from the Arab League, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, South Africa, Venezuela and Cuba.

The empty seat of Israel is pictured during a session of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, 2019