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'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
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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
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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
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Twelve years following a major nuclear disaster, Japan commenced the gradual release of wastewater into the Pacific Ocean last week
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
'The IHRA definition has often been used to wrongly label criticism of Israel as antisemitic, and thus chill and sometimes suppress non-violent protest'
Human rights experts will look into allegations of torture against political dissidents, women, LGBTQ+ members
'UNRWA teachers... saying things like 'slaughter them all' and teaching this to students'
Navi Pillay was appointed to head a probe into "underlying root causes" of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Human Rights Watch says 'activists face pervasive death threats and violence'
Human Rights Watch's Ken Roth says Saudi Arabia 'bribed, coerced and arm-twisted' the council
UN Watch presentation abruptly cut off by UNHRC president for 'personal attacks' against individuals
Recent UN Watch report showed more than 100 educators used personal social media pages for offensive messages
Geneva-based NGO calls on the agency's major funders to hold it accountable to its own standards, commitments
Body may have inadvertently handed refugees' data to Myanmar government, same government refugees fled from
The motion was adopted with a 22 to 6 vote, along with 8 abstentions
China, Cuba and Russia, however, were all elected to three-year terms
Three of the countries with the "most abysmal" human rights records are running for election to the UNHRC