Human Rights Voices

UN Committee Takes No Action on Iran Envoy Dispute

Foreign domestic workers in Qatar: Shocking cases of deception, forced labour, violence

An Indonesian former domestic worker shows marks on her body that she said were inflicted by her employer

Iranian rape victim to be hanged unless she apologizes for sex assault claims

Reyhaneh Jabbari

President Obama signs Senator Cruz's Bill Barring Iran's UN Ambassador Nominee From Entering USA

Senator Ted Cruz

Three Juvenile Offenders Executed in Southern Iran

China Jails Blogger as 'Rumour Monger'

Blogger Qin Zhihui

British Woman May Face Execution in Iran for Insulting Islam

Roya Nobakht

Iran requests UN committee meeting to discuss U.S. ban on Iran envoy

Hamid Aboutalebi was a member of the group of terrorists who seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979

A first: Obama administration participates for in UN 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 Rights Council

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 abandoned by EU at UN Rights Council

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

VIDEO: Antisemitism and the UN, then and now

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Iranian prisoners allegedly forced to run gauntlet of armed guards

Beaten prisoner Emad Bahavar

Iran Refuses to Pull Terrorist  UN Pick

Hamid Aboutalebi

Escaping human trafficking

UN expert on violence against women says "sexism" more "pervasive" in UK than any other state

Rashida Manjoo, UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences

The UN rushes through "Palestine's" treaty ratifications

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas

Over 100 Teenaged Girls Abducted From Nigerian School

Boko Haram terrorists

Chinese Lawyers Say They Were Tortured By Police

The tortured Chinese rights lawyers, from left: Wang Cheng, Jiang Tianyong and Tang Jitian.

UN Security Council discusses the Ukrainian situation at the request of the aggressor

Russian UN ambassador Vitaly Churkin

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 Human Rights Council, Geneva, Switzerland

UN Rights Council delays choice of "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