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

UN rights chief calls on states to challenge Israel over 'occupation'

By REUTERS
 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.

Education first step to addressing antisemitism at UNHRC - Amb. Taylor says

 Meirav Leshem Gonen, mother of 23-year-old hostage Romi Gonen, spoke at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday.

'Normalizing taking hostages and rape': Hostage families slam UNHRC sexual violence report

 An arms dealer puts firearms on display at an exhibition, as the war in Gaza and the U.S.-led strikes on Houthi targets raise demand for firearms, in Sanaa, Yemen March 4, 2024.

Most Brits would support the UK ending arms sales to Israel, poll finds

 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

 Pictures of Israelis who were murdered by Hamas terrorists at the Nova festival placed outside the Knesset in Jerusalem on February 7, 2024

‘It was like a horror movie,’ Oct. 7 survivors tell UNHRC

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

UN rights chief says essential to avoid conflagration in Gaza war

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

Iran’s FM in Geneva for UN, ICRC meetings

  General view of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands December 11, 2019.

ICJ vs ICC: Why Israel defends itself against Gaza genocide claim - analysis

 RELATIVES OF hostages hold a news conference in Tel Aviv last week

Taking hostages is a war crime - opinion

Palestinians with dual citizenship gather outside Rafah border crossing with Egypt in the hope of getting permission to leave Gaza, amid the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip October 16, 2023

UN: Israel's Gaza evacuation order could be a 'crime against humanity'

By REUTERS
 UN HIGH Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk attends a meeting of the Human Rights Council, in Geneva, earlier this year.

UNHRC fails in addressing human rights - opinion

By Andrew Loewy
 UN SPECIAL rapporteur Francesca Albanese is interviewed on Al Mayadeen.

UN rapporteur, who appeared on Hezbollah-affiliated channel, must resign - opinion

By JORDAN COPE
 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.

UNHRC discriminates against Israel, should send rapporteur home - opinion