Human Rights Voices

President Obama signs Senator Ted 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

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 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 Nigeria 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 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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