United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC)reports

UNITED NATIONS — The Palestinians said Friday they want the U.N. Human Rights Council to establish a commission to carry out an independent investigation of ... The investigators cited reports that some Israel officials suggested the purpose of the Israeli probe is “to avoid scrutiny” from the international ...

YANGON — The UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Myanmar Yanghee Lee on Wednesday retweeted a false news report that seven Myanmar ... The special rapporteur's mandate requires two visits to Myanmar a year, in order to report to the Human Rights Council and the UN General Assembly.

Accra, April 19, GNA – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Professor Philip Alston, has urged Ghana to ... that the UN Special Rapporteur's final report on his visit to Ghana would be presented to the upcoming session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva in ...

The Independent Expert will present her findings and recommendations of her country visit in a report to the UN Human Rights Council in September 2018. ENDS. Ms. Rosa Kornfeld-Matte (Chile) was appointed by Human Rights Council as the first Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights ...

Speaking to VOA Persian from Tel Aviv, Neuer said IHRDC's accreditation is a “rare bit of justice” for a human rights group at the United Nations. ... because it allows a group to participate in U.N. meetings with diplomats as they make decisions, particularly at the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva.

Herzberg was addressing language in a report by "UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967" Michael Lynk ... Turning to the adoption of five new anti-Israel resolutions, US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley slammed the Human Rights Council.

It was March Madness this week at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). This is a bracket where human rights abusers like ... Potentially, the list may serve as an instruction manual for anti-Israel boycotts of Israel, and it will bear the United Nations' imprimatur. In January 2018, Prince Zeid released a ...

The UN Human Rights Council has adopted a resolution extending the mandate on Iran, the Islamic Republic's official news agency IRNA reported. ... to United Nations Human Rights, Office of High Commissioner's website, Ms. Jahangir presented her first critical report to the Human Rights Council on 13 ...

U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley slammed the UN Human Rights Council on Friday, saying that "the United States would continue to examine our membership" in the organization following a series of decisions the council took against Israel's policy in the occupied territories. Sources in Brussels told ...

The Human Rights Council this morning concluded its general debate on the annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General. The Council started the general debate on Wednesday, 21 March after ...

... it called "the imperialists' human rights racket" shortly after the publication of a United Nations report highlighted the country's dismal human rights record. ... of double standards have to be rejected at international organizations including the UN Human Rights Council," wrote Rodong Sinmun on Tuesday.

The United Nations Human Rights Council today (6 March) is expected to hear a report on government surveillance to be presented by the UN special rapporteur on the right to privacy. The report calls for the urgent development of a comprehensive legal framework on privacy and surveillance in ...

Daniel Webb from the Human Rights Law Centre, who is in Geneva observing the human rights council session, said Australia's defence of its policies lacked credibility in the face of consistent and independent criticism. “Our government's deterrence regime is not only cruel, it fundamentally misses the ...

Second to those who are criminally responsible – those who kill and those who maim – the responsibility for the continuation of so much pain lies with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council. So long as the veto is used by them to block any unity of action, when it is needed the most, when it ...

[JURIST] The UN Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) [official website] released a report [text, DOC] on Monday finding that the judicial proceedings under which former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed [campaign profile] were convicted "contained serious flaws and violated his right to a fair trial ...