Human Rights Voices

Rape is commonplace in the Congo, a member of the UN's top rights body

Despite Gross Human Rights Violations, China Is a Member of UN Human Rights Council

Islamic states try to hold up Human Rights Council appointment because of absence of known anti-Israel bias

UN Human Rights Council, Geneva, Switzerland

Prisoners at the palace: Saudi princesses plead for help as they claim they are being held by the king against their will

Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, King of Saudi Arabia

Frustration in Afghan women's rights struggle

Afghan rights activist Wazhma Frogh

UN High Commissioner Pillay singles out U.S. for problems with "impunity and the rule of law"

Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

4 Accused Gays Whipped in North Nigerian Court

UN provides venue for Iran flaunting its human rights credentials, days after more abominations

Morteza Sarmadi, Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iran

UN Human Rights Council members, including Russia, reject "interference in internal affairs" of states

Russia speaks on behalf of the "Like Minded Group of Countries" at the UN Human Rights Council

South Africa Minister Compares Israelis to Nazis in Written Statement Distributed by UN Human Rights Council

Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of South Africa

Head of global Islamic organization uses UN "Human Rights" Council platform for anti-Jewish rant

Iyad Ameen Madani, Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)

Iran Executes Two for 'Perversion'

UN Secretary-General lavishes undeserved praise on opening day of Human Rights Council

Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary General

UN failing Mauritania's slaves

Residents of so-called slave villages

Saudi Schools Ban Females Who Don't Wear a Face Veil

Saudi women

Continued UN foot-dragging on human rights abuses in Sudan

Displaced people fleeing Southern Kordofan, Sudan after bombings

2 Prominent Women Under Detention Are Hospitalized

Liu Xia

IAEA finds - again - Iran not in compliance with its nuclear non-proliferation obligations

IAEA headquarters, Vienna, Austria

Witnesses say Chadian "peacekeepers" helping Muslims and killing civilians in the Central African Republic

Venezuelan beauty queen Genesis Carmona, 22, fatally shot in head during protest

Venezuelan beauty queen and student Genesis Carmona is seen being evacuated on a motorcycle after being shot in the head during a protest in Valencia Tuesday

Saudi Arabia Jails Islamist for 8 Years for Twitter Protest Call

Abuse Of Women is rampant in Algeria though country is a member of UN rights council

Algerian women

Release Shafipour, Hedayat, and All Other Women Prisoners of Conscience

From top, left to right: Maryam Shafipour, Bahareh Hedayat, Faran Hesami, Fariba Kamal Abadi, Hakimeh Shokri, Leva Khanjani, Mahvash Shahriari, Maryam Naghash Zargaran, Nooshin Khadem, Zhinoos Rahimi.

Spurious Credentials of Gabon, President of the UN Human Rights Council

Baudelaire Ndong Ella of Gabon, UN Human Rights Council President

UN Rights Council's Anniversary of Genocide Convention tainted by Sudanese spectacle

Iran Denies Medical Care To Political Prisoners

Rouhani's rockets

The Klos-C

Farzaneh Moradi, A 26 Year Old Woman, Was Hanged for Allegedly Murdering Husband She Was Forced to Marry at 15

United Arab Emirates to buy its human rights credentials, makes 11.5 million donation to UN

Anwar Mohammed Gargash, UAE Foreign Affairs Minister

More Anti-Israel Bias on Display at the UN Rights Council, This Time From Malaysia

Dato Sri Anifa Aman, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia

Islamist Militants Kill 31 More In Northeast Nigeria

Wreckage where two explosions rocked Maiduguri Gomaris district on the evening of March 1.

Russian Foreign Minister Uses UN Human Rights Council to Flog Alleged Human Rights Credentials

Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister, speaks at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland

UN High Commissioner Navi Pillay opens latest Human Rights Council session by championing antisemitic Durban Declaration