The Latest Breaking News from UN Human Rights Council

Bringing Russia back onto the UN’s top human rights body will ‘signify a dangerous global drift into untrammelled violence against most vulnerable and innocent’, experts warn

Jacob Mchangama (of Justitia, and now a Research Professor at Vanderbilt) has a detailed item about it; an excerpt: In 1950, Eleanor Roosevelt, serving as the first Chairperson of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, was involved in a bitter dispute about the limits of free speech. Stalin's Soviet…

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen arrived in Kyiv on a surprise visit to highlight US economic support on Monday as a deadly Russian drone attack targeted the western Ukrainian city of Khmelnytskyi. The UN Human Rights Council convened for its annual session in Geneva as the UN chief warned that…

Al Jazeera breaks down the political, military and economic positions of various countries around the world.

Austerity measures have exacerbated racism and discrimination against people of African descent, experts said

The United Nations on Tuesday named three women to lead a rights investigation into Iran's violent crackdown on women-led protests that have rocked the country for more than three months. Bangladesh Supreme Court lawyer Sara Hossain, Pakistani law professor Shaheen Sardar Ali and rights activist Viviana Krsticevic from Argentina will…

Rights groups say the National Unity Government, made up of elected members, must represent Myanmar at all UN bodies.

Iran rejected cooperation with the newly-appointed independent UN committee to investigate the country's repression and crackdown on anti-government protests. Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said that Iran would not cooperate with the political committee set up by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) He stressed that the hasty use of…

The UN Human Rights Council voted last week to establish a fact-finding mission to investigate the protests in Iran.