The President of the Human Rights Council, Swiss Ambassador Jürg Lauber, appointed Monia Ammar, a Tunisian judge and expert ...

GENEVA - The President of the Human Rights Council, Ambassador Jürg Lauber (Switzerland), has appointed Alex Neve (Canada) and Maria Eloisa Quintero ...

Chairing the United Nations Human Rights Council would help Indonesia to initiate new international conventions linking human ...

Iran will take the chair of a United Nations human rights social forum on Thursday, with many critical of the appointment due to Tehran’s decades-long record of human rights abuses and terrorism. "The ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Mondayadded more supporters of the war in Ukraine to the presidential Human Rights ...

Foreign Minister Gideon Saar formally announced on Thursday that Israel will withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). According to Saar’s letter, addressed to the UNHRC president ...

UN General Assembly resolution 60/251 requires that members elected to the Human Rights Council (HRC) uphold the highest standards in the promotion and protection of human rights. We, the undersigned ...

The Council today approved additional restrictive measures against four persons and one entity under the European Union's Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime, in view of the continuing deterioration ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin praised the Russian Human Rights Council for its work in defending human rights and ...