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The UN Council on Human Rights yesterday passed three resolutions condemning Israeli settlement activity on Occupied Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem, and the Syrian Golan Heights. The United States was...
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The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation has called on the representatives of its member states at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva to convene an emergency meeting to discuss...
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The government of Israel has decided to cut ties with the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) a week after the council declared its intention to open an investigation into...
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Ambassador Hisham Badr, Egypt's permanent representative to the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, has confirmed Cairo's full support for the establishment of an international fact-finding committee...
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A senior member of the PLO Executive Committee has welcomed the conclusions and recommendations of the UN's Human Rights Council report on Israel. Dr. Hanan Ashrawi described it as...
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Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has called on the international community to "put an end to the Palestinians' suffering in the occupied territories", and urged the world "to put...
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The secretary general of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, has indicated that the foreign ministers who represent the organisation's member states will discuss a recommendation during...
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Israel's public humiliation of both the President and the Vice President of America on two separate occasions over the last few weeks has apparently not hindered America's desire to...
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Members of the UN Human Rights Council observed a minute's silence on Wednesday as a mark of respect for the late President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, even though the...
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America's representative to the UN Human Rights Council, Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe, has called for the resignation of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories,...
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The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) called on Monday for an investigation into Israel's maltreatment of Palestinian prisoners and added that the viability of life in Gaza is at...
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We are living in momentous times, with political changes sweeping across the Middle East and Western countries pushing democratic values as the panacea for all human ills. This is...
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The US has sought to impose its philosophy, lifestyle and culture on the world ever since it became a "superpower" politically, economically, militarily and technologically after World War Two....
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In March last year Israel became the first country ever to sever ties with the UN Human Rights Council. The decision came after the body decided to investigate Jewish...