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'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.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
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

In its 2026 Global Outlook, the Rome-based WFP said 318 million people were expected to face crisis levels of hunger or worse next year, citing sharp declines in humanitarian funding.

|ByREUTERS
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

Hostage families shared harrowing testimony at the UN, urging swift action to save their loved ones from Hamas captivity.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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

The debate was requested by Pakistan on behalf of member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), and by Kuwait on behalf of the Gulf Cooperation Council.

|ByREUTERS

UNHRC calls for arms embargo against Israel, asks it to prevent genocide

The resolution did not mention Hamas or condemn it for the invasion of Israel on October 7, in which 1,200 people were killed and 253 seized as hostages.

APRIL 5, 2024ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
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.

‘It was like a horror movie,’ Oct. 7 survivors tell UNHRC

A relative of Israeli-Bedouin hostages, Yosef Hamis Ziadna and his son Hamza, and a Nova music festival survivor addressed the UN Human Rights Council about October 7 and the lasting impact it has.

APRIL 1, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Pictures of Israelis who were murdered by Hamas terrorists at the Nova festival placed outside the Knesset in Jerusalem on February 7, 2024

UN rights chief says essential to avoid conflagration in Gaza war

The Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah and Israel have been locked in hostilities for months in parallel to the Gaza war, the worst conflict between the two since 2006.

MARCH 4, 2024ByREUTERS
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Volker Turk holds a news conference in Caracas, Venezuela January 28, 2023

Iran’s FM in Geneva for UN, ICRC meetings

Iran, which backs Hamas and supported the October 7 massacre in Israel by Hamas, now says that it wants to see political efforts to end the “Gaza crisis.”

FEBRUARY 26, 2024BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian speaks during a news conference in Tehran, Iran, March 19, 2023.

ICJ vs ICC: Why Israel defends itself against Gaza genocide claim - analysis

Israel is still taking this position of ignoring and denying jurisdiction with the ICC and with the UN Human Rights Council probes.

JANUARY 2, 2024ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
General view of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands December 11, 2019.

Taking hostages is a war crime - opinion

October 7 should prove too flagrant to be ignored by the body that is supposed to be the world’s watchdog on protecting and advancing human rights.

DECEMBER 5, 2023ByNEVILLE TELLER
RELATIVES OF hostages hold a news conference in Tel Aviv last week

UN: Israel's Gaza evacuation order could be a 'crime against humanity'

The term "forcible transfer" describes the forced relocation of civilian populations and it is a crime against humanity punishable by the ICC.

OCTOBER 17, 2023ByREUTERS
Palestinians with dual citizenship gather outside Rafah border crossing with Egypt in the hope of getting permission to leave Gaza, amid the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip October 16, 2023

UNHRC fails in addressing human rights - opinion

Contributing to the UNHRC’s ineffectiveness is the institution’s configuration and the criteria it applies when determining how and which countries are selected.

JULY 26, 2023ByANDREW LOEWY
UN HIGH Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk attends a meeting of the Human Rights Council, in Geneva, earlier this year.

UN rapporteur, who appeared on Hezbollah-affiliated channel, must resign - opinion

Albanese’s antisemitic statements do not deviate far from the antisemitic groups she associates with.

APRIL 23, 2023ByJORDAN COPE
UN SPECIAL rapporteur Francesca Albanese is interviewed on Al Mayadeen.

UNHRC discriminates against Israel, should send rapporteur home - opinion

Appointing a UNHRC rapporteur to Israel is an outrageous and totally fictitious antisemitic assessment of the relationship between our Arab citizens and residents, and the Jewish Israeli public.

JANUARY 31, 2023ByWALTER BINGHAM
MICHAEL LYNK, then-special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, attends a session of the Human Rights Council at the UN in Geneva, in 2019.