Human Rights Council

Turning the victim into an aggressor - opinion

This antisemitic display will be remembered as a significant attempt by an international body to distort reality and promote the pervasive anti-Israel narrative at the UN.

 A general view of the United Nations Security Council during a meeting on "Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe," at the UN headquarters in New York, US, May 4, 2023.
 IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip. October 23, 2024.

Israel needs a strategy, not just outrage while fighting lies - analysis

 UN Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese gives a press conference at the UN City in Copenhagen, Denmark February 5, 2025.

'Hubris and self-righteousness': UN's Albanese slams Israel's withdrawal from 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.

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


Mahsa Amini's death in Iran custody was 'unlawful', says UN mission

United Nations fact-finding mission finds that the death of Iranian national Mahasa Amini in 2022 was caused by violence, systematic violence against women is still occurring throughout the country.

 Women hold a picture of Mahsa Amini during a sit-in following her death, at Martyrs' Square in Beirut, Lebanon September 21, 2022

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.”

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian speaks during a news conference in Tehran, Iran, March 19, 2023.

Human rights in Russia have 'significantly deteriorated,' UN expert warns

"Russian authorities have severely curtailed the freedoms of association, peaceful assembly and expression, both online and offline."

 A sticker that reads "Russia is a terrorist state" is attached to a flag of Ukraine during a gathering to protest against a pro-Russia demonstration amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine in Frankfurt, Germany, September 18, 2022

UN removes 15 companies from blacklist for halting settlement activity

The UN list was limited in scope due to budget restrictions and the rights office was only able to review the original list of 112 companies.

 SETTLERS HURL stones at Palestinians during the annual harvest season, near the settlement of Yitzhar in 2020.

Amid criticism, Columbia University announces a new research center in Tel Aviv

For decades, Columbia has been the site of heated debate among both faculty and students over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

 Columbia University is set to launch a Global Center in Tel Aviv despite faculty opposition.

UN human rights chief calls on Israel to temporarily halt judicial reform

One of the bill's key components will add restrictions on the judicial review of Basic Laws.

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

Israel accuses UN human rights chief of blaming terror attacks on victims

Israel stated that the Geneva human rights community remained silent on the shooting in Neveh Ya'acov for a week.

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

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.

 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.

Discrimination, demonization and delegitimization has no place at the UN - opinion

Navi Pillay wrote a letter to the president of the Human Rights Council, alleging that her colleagues were being "deliberately misquoted."

 NAVI PILLAY, who heads the newest UN ‘commission of inquiry’ on Israel, has been called out for prejudice, say the writers.

UNHRC to hold special session on Iran, human rights violations

The UNHRC needed one-third of the 47 members of the Council's support is required in order to hold a special session.

 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.

Would the FBI come to different conclusion of Shireen Abu Akleh's death? - editorial

The US administration said that the ballistics test of the bullet fragment was "inconclusive." The UNHRC came to a similar conclusion.

 Palestinians walk in front of a mural depicting the slain Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh ahead of the visit of US President Joe Biden at Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank July 13, 2022