Human Rights Voices

Obama admin participates for the first time in group charged with implementing notorious UN Durban declaration

Sign from the 2001 UN World Conference Against Racism, Durban, South Africa

Egypt jails four men for gay acts

No Political Prisoners Among the 920 Pardoned

The infamous Evin prison in Iran

Obama's Foreign Policy Failures Lead to Disaster at UN

Ben Emmerson, UN Special Rapporteur on Counter Terrorism and Human Rights speaks on the use of remotely piloted aircraft, or drones, in extraterritorial lethal counter-terrorism operations.

UN top rights body attempts to take on Sri Lankan rights abuses

Even supposedly “safe” places were targeted by government forces during the 2009 conflict in Sri Lanka

HRC Draft Resolution "Situation of human rights in Iran"

Draft was adopted with 21 votes in favor, 9 against (China, Cuba, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Russian Federation, Venezuela and Vietnam) and 16 abstentions.

Obama Administration Loses Vote to Cuba on "Foreign Debt" Resolution at UN HRC

Placard for the delegation of the United States, UN Human Rights Council

Human Rights Council Draft Resolution "Human Rights Situation in Occupied Palestinian Territory, Including East Jerusalem," A/HRC/25/L.38/Rev.1

Draft was adopted with 46 votes in favor, 1 against (U.S.) and 0 abstentions.

HRC Draft Resolution "Follow-up to the Report of the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict", A/HRC/25/L.39

Draft was adopted with 46 votes in favor, 1 against (U.S.) and 0 abstentions.

U.S. Loses Vote at UN "Rights" Council on Cuban Resolution on "Democratic Order"

U.S. delegation at UN Human Rights Council

U.S. suffers defeat at UN Council: EU didn't back US's vote against resolution on "illicit financial flows" to West

Paula Schriefer, head of the U.S. delegation, speaks at the UN HRC

Antisemitism at the UN, Then and Now

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Islamic bloc of states is sponsoring a UN "rights" council resolution condemning religious-based violence

In Pakistan, Islamic extremists bomb church, killing at least 81

Twitter-bashing Turkey sponsors UN "Human Rights" Council resolution demanding states ensure "free expression"

Anti-government protesters try to protect themselves from a water cannon as riot police disperse them during a protest in Ankara June 5, 2013.

Russia is sponsoring a UN "Human Rights" Council resolution on the "integrity of the judicial system"

The trial of tycoon and opposition leader Mikhail Khodorkovsky, left, and his co-defendant Platon Lebedev has been called unfair.

UN falsifies their Syria coverage. Claims transparency which doesn't exist.

A man with a child found in the rubble of a building on Tuesday in Aleppo, Syria

China & "freedom of religion" at the UN "Human Rights" Council

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UPR of China destroys credibility of UN "Human Rights" Council

NGO representatives hold photos of Cao Shunli during Universal Periodic Review of China on March 20, 2014

At UN "Human Rights" Council Iran lectures democracies about human rights

A public hanging in Iran

Iraq Child-Marriage Bill Sparks Outrage Among Human Rights Groups

A demonstration against the draft personal status law. The sign reads: Women are not for sale or purchase.

Islamists Blamed for Nigeria Massacre

A screengrab taken on March 24 from a video shows a man claiming to be the leader of Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau.

New Lebanese Domestic Violence Law Evokes Sharp Criticism

Members of Kafa protest new anti-woman laws

UN top rights body condemns Israel 5 times more than any other country. Takes no action on 182 of 192 other UN states

UN Rights Council delays Council president's choice of Arab group nominee for UN's "independent" expert on Israel

Appointment of Christine Chinkin (right), ex-Goldstone panel member, as UN "independent" expert on Israel has been postponed to late April

UN "Human Rights" Council free speech resolution not nearly as "free" as claimed

UN Human Rights Council, Geneva, Switzerland

HRC Draft Resolution "Ensuring use of remotely piloted aircraft or armed drones in counter-terrorism..."

Draft was adopted with 27 votes in favor, 6 against (France, Japan, Republic of Korea, Macedonia, UK and U.S.) and 14 abstentions.

Human Rights Council Draft Resolution "Right of the Palestinian People to Self-Determination," A/HRC/25/L.36

Draft was adopted with 46 votes in favor, 1 against (U.S.) and 0 abstentions.

HRC Draft Resolution "Israeli Settlements in the OPT, including East Jerusalem, and in the Occupied Syrian Golan", A/HRC/25/L.37/Rev.1

Draft was adopted with 46 votes in favor, 1 against (U.S.) and 0 abstentions.

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