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South Africa's Navi Pillay (right), chair of the independent United Nations Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, speaks next to commission member Chris Sidoti

2 min

International

Members of UN commission probing Israel resign after accusations of bias

'This was a commission born in prejudice – designed to target Israel, while ignoring Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Palestinian Authority,' said Hillel Neuer, chief of UN Watch

Read time: 2 min.


Palestinians walk near the UNRWA building during a strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on November 29, 2021.

4 min

International

Group of 3,000 UNRWA teachers has glorified October 7 massacre, terrorism

The Shin Bet internal security agency chief Ronen Bar has reportedly recommended presenting to the Hague evidence of the UN agency's ties to Hamas

Read time: 4 min.


Archive - Un membre de la police des mœurs met en garde une jeune femme pour son port du voile jugé non réglementaire à Téhéran, en Iran

3 min

Iran & Eastern States

Mother arrested after mysterious injury of teen without headscarf on Iranian metro

Armita Geravand's mother was arrested ahead of a statement made in Iran's press, and others were reportedly demanded not to share more information

Read time: 3 min.


This aerial picture taken by Jiji Press on February 14, 2021 shows a view of TEPCO's crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant as well as tanks (L) used for storing treated wastewater, along the coast in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture

3 min

Asia & Pacific

IAEA says first water discharges from Fukushima are not harmful

Twelve years following a major nuclear disaster, Japan commenced the gradual release of wastewater into the Pacific Ocean last week

Read time: 3 min.


A Sudanese policeman stands guard at the Abu Shouk camp in Darfur, Sudan.

3 min

Africa

Rights group urges U.S. to stem ‘atrocities’ in Sudan’s Darfur region

The fighting – concentrated in the capital Khartoum and the western region of Darfur – has killed over 3,900 people and displaced more than 3.3 million

Read time: 3 min.


Assemblée générale ONU

2 min

International

Over 100 NGOs call on UN to not adopt IHRA definition of antisemitism

'The IHRA definition has often been used to wrongly label criticism of Israel as antisemitic, and thus chill and sometimes suppress non-violent protest'

Read time: 2 min.


Palestinians rally against the Palestinian Authority following the violent arrest and death in custody of activist Nizar Banat, in Ramallah, the West Bank, on August 2, 2021.

3 min

West Bank & Gaza Strip

UN committee to probe PA, Hamas on torture allegations

Human rights experts will look into allegations of torture against political dissidents, women, LGBTQ+ members

Read time: 3 min.


A school at the Dheisheh Refugee Camp in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, on August 30, 2018.

3 min

West Bank & Gaza Strip

Report: UNRWA educators still promoting antisemitism

'UNRWA teachers... saying things like 'slaughter them all' and teaching this to students'

Read time: 3 min.


Navi Pillay (R) at an emergency session of the United Nations Human Rights Council on the Gaza crisis in Geneva, Switzerland, on July 23, 2014.

3 min

Israel

NGO demands UN Israel-Palestinian investigator to resign

Navi Pillay was appointed to head a probe into "underlying root causes" of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Read time: 3 min.


Artist perform during Human Rights Day in Medellin, Antioquia department, Colombia on December 10, 2021.

3 min

Latin America

UN: 78 human rights activists killed in Colombia during 2021

Human Rights Watch says 'activists face pervasive death threats and violence'

Read time: 3 min.


Human Rights Watch executive director Ken Roth speaks during a press conference in Hong Kong on April 23, 2018.

3 min

The Gulf

Rights activists urge UN to restore Yemen war crimes probe

Human Rights Watch's Ken Roth says Saudi Arabia 'bribed, coerced and arm-twisted' the council

Read time: 3 min.


President of the Human Rights Council Ambassador Nazhat Shameem Khan adjusts her facemask at the opening of a UN Human Rights Council emergency meeting in Geneva on May 27, 2021.

3 min

International

UNHRC stops video quoting antisemitic posts by UNRWA teachers

UN Watch presentation abruptly cut off by UNHRC president for 'personal attacks' against individuals

Read time: 3 min.


FILE - Refugee school girls hold kites to fly during the "Kites of Dignity" event at the UNRWA Rimal Girls Preparatory school in Gaza City, Monday, March 12, 2018

3 min

International

UNRWA launches investigation into 10 staff accused of posting antisemitic material

Recent UN Watch report showed more than 100 educators used personal social media pages for offensive messages

Read time: 3 min.


A child from the Abu Ghadyan Palestinian family writes on the board as a relative looks on, in a classroom of a school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) on May 29, 2021.

2 min

International

UN Watch report calls out UNRWA teachers who celebrate Israeli, Jewish deaths

Geneva-based NGO calls on the agency's major funders to hold it accountable to its own standards, commitments

Read time: 2 min.


A Rohingya refugee woman arranges her belongings next to a makeshift tent in a refugee camp in Ukhia, Bangladesh, March 25, 2021.

2 min

Asia & Pacific

UN urged to probe improper sharing of Rohingya data

Body may have inadvertently handed refugees' data to Myanmar government, same government refugees fled from

Read time: 2 min.


Delegates gather for a special session of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council which voted to send a team of  war crimes investigators to probe the deadly shootings of Gaza protesters by Israeli forces

2 min

International

Major European powers vote in favor of 'anti-Israel' UNHRC resolution

The motion was adopted with a 22 to 6 vote, along with 8 abstentions

Read time: 2 min.


Une photo fournie par le palais royal saoudien le 20 novembre 2019 montrant le roi Salmane d'Arabie saoudite (à droite) et le prince héritier Mohammed ben Salmane à Riyad

3 min

International

Saudi Arabia fails in bid to join UN Human Rights Council

China, Cuba and Russia, however, were all elected to three-year terms

Read time: 3 min.


The United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva

3 min

International

Cuba, Russia and Saudi Arabia run for election to UN's top human rights body

Three of the countries with the "most abysmal" human rights records are running for election to the UNHRC

Read time: 3 min.


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