The Latest Breaking News from UN Human Rights Council

Rights groups say the National Unity Government, made up of elected members, must represent Myanmar at all UN bodies.

Iran rejected cooperation with the newly-appointed independent UN committee to investigate the country's repression and crackdown on anti-government protests. Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said that Iran would not cooperate with the political committee set up by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) He stressed that the hasty use of…

The UN Human Rights Council voted last week to establish a fact-finding mission to investigate the protests in Iran.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock urged the UN Human Rights Council to "raise its voice" for Iranians, during a special session Thursday about the deadly crackdown on protests in the country. "The Iranian demonstrators have no seat at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, they have no voice at the…

The report estimates that since 2015 there have been at least 50 cases of dual and foreign nationals being arbitrarily detained by Iran.

A key challenge facing human rights globally today is the advent of emerging technologies that mutate rapidly and potentially beyond human control. The UN Human Rights Council in Geneva has thus singled out for special study during the next couple of years four areas of concern: autonomous weaponry, neurotechnology, cyberbullying,…

The U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva created the three-person commission last year to investigate activities in Gaza. 

The first UN Human Rights Council special meeting on Iran appears to be moving forward despite warnings by Tehran.

A Palestinian human rights group told a U.N. panel on Monday it had been subject to threats and "mafia methods" during a campaign of harassment organised by Israel to silence groups documenting alleged Israeli rights violations.

Fifty countries urge China to uphold international human rights obligations in its treatment of the Uighur minority.

UN Human Rights Council renews mandate to collect and preserve evidence of atrocities during the decades-long civil war.