Saudi Arabia's membership on the United Nations Human Rights Councilhas been renewed notwithstanding the Saudiregimes dire rights record inside and outside the kingdom. In a secret balloting process on Friday, the 193-member UN General Assembly elected 14 members to the 47-nation council, among them Saudi Arabia. Russia, however, failed to win ...

Tehran, Oct 29, IRNA Iranian Foreign Ministry rejected claims that Iran has failed to win the vote of the United Nations Human Rights Council in favor of its membership in the body. The Foreign Ministry Media Department in a statement reaffirmed that the news was false. It stressed that contrary to what some sites and social media have claimed ...

[caption id="attachment_105330" align="alignright" width="224"] ISIL terrorists operating in Iraq. (file photo)[/caption] The ISIL Takfiri militants may have committed all types of international crimes against humanity, including genocide in its brutal acts of violence and terrorism in Iraq, the United Nations human rights office says. The Takfiri ...

The United Nations Human Rights Council says former New York judge Mary McGowan Davis has been appointed to a UN commission investigating Israels crimes in its war on the blockaded Gaza Strip. The decision was made during an emergency session of the 47-nation council on Monday. The probe team was formed under a resolution proposed by Palestine,...

[caption id="attachment_111391" align="alignright" width="209"] Navi Pillay, center, the United Nations top human rights official, meeting in South Sudan with a rebel leader, Riek Machar, right. Credit United Nations Mission in South Sudan, via Associated Press[/caption] GENEVA In her final days as the United Nations high commissioner for human rights,...

Russia says the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) has confirmed that the videos and photos purporting to show the victims of a chemical attack near the Syrian capital, Damascus, were fabricated. The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a Tuesday statement that international experts as well as Syrian public and religious leaders presented their ...