UN Human Rights Council

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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....

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...