Human Rights Council

patrick.goodenough | October 27, 2022
The head of a U.N. Human Rights Council-appointed inquiry targeting Israel was on the defensive at a U.N. session on Thursday which, unusually for…
patrick.goodenough | October 6, 2022
The U.N. Human Rights Council on Thursday voted down a U.S.-proposed resolution calling for a debate on the human rights situation in Xinjiang, with…
patrick.goodenough | September 26, 2022
The U.S. and other democracies are asking the U.N. Human Rights Council to hold a debate on China – specifically, alleged atrocities in Xinjiang –…
patrick.goodenough | July 28, 2022
A member of a United Nations commission of inquiry focused on Israel is under fire after telling an interviewer that the “Jewish lobby” was funding a…
Brittany M. Hughes | October 17, 2019
As if we needed yet another reason to believe the United Nations is a completely useless body of hypocritical bureaucrats, the global body just…
patrick.goodenough | April 16, 2018
Last month the daughter of imprisoned American pastor Andrew Brunson appeared before the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, urging action to secure…
patrick.goodenough | March 8, 2017
In fresh criticism of President Trump, the top United Nations human rights official on Wednesday condemned the “vilification of entire groups such as…
patrick.goodenough | February 26, 2017
At her confirmation hearing last month, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley questioned the value of engaging with the U.N. Human Rights Council.…
patrick.goodenough | June 29, 2016
A State Department spokesman on Wednesday declined to give an opinion on whether Saudi Arabia should be suspended from the U.N. Human Rights Council…
patrick.goodenough | June 27, 2016
As the U.N. Human Rights Council on Monday held its once-a-session ritual condemnation of Israel, Pakistan’s representative blasted the Jewish state…
patrick.goodenough | May 7, 2015
The Obama administration fights against anti-Israel bias at the United Nations because Israel is a close ally but also because “undue focus on any…