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.
UN food agency warns of deepening hunger crisis as funding falls short
'Torn apart, held in darkness, denied food, medicine, and dignity': Hostage families speak at UNHRC
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.”
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!
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."
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.
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?"
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."
Can the US under Biden change the UNHRC? - opinion
Only a superpower like the United States can initiate change within the body.
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.
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.
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.
