The Trump administration has a decision to make on the Human Rights Council: will it stay or will it go? The Human Rights Council is a 47 member body that meets several times a year to discuss human rights issues...
UPDATE: Evidence that competitive elections work: In a stunning rebuke, Russia lost to Hungary and Croatia. It will not be joining the Council next year. Meanwhile, Brazil and Cuba beat Guatemala for the two Latin America seats. UPDATE 2: It’s probably worth...
A UN human rights panel released evidence today that ISIS is committing genocide against the Yazidi group, a religious minority that for centuries has lived along the border of Iraq and Syria. The area is known as Sinjar, and in August...
For the first time in six years, the USA will not have a seat on the UN Human Rights Council. That’s not by choice: the USA was term-limited from seeking another consecutive term with a vote on the council. Now,...
A UN Human Rights Council commission of inquiry dispatched to investigate alleged human rights violations stemming from last year’s conflict in Gaza and Israel released a long awaited report today. For those who follow this issue in particular or international...
The UN Human Rights Council’s Commission of Inquiry of human rights abuses in Eritrea just published what might be the most exhaustive documentation of human rights abuses in one of the word’s most oppressive states. The report shows that Eritrea...
There is word today that UN human rights investigators probing crimes in Syria will release the names of war crimes suspects–including potentially Bashar al Assad–to prosecutors in countries that wish to pursue national investigations into crimes against humanity in Syria....
