U.N. Human Rights Council

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said on Thursday that his nation has withdrawn from the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) because the organization protects abusers of human rights around the world, pushes antisemitic rhetoric, and constantly harasses Israel.

Dr. Hanan Hamdan, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) representative for Egypt, said this weekend the burden of more than 1.2 million refugees from the brutal civil war in Sudan is “unsustainable.”

U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi on Monday said a record 123 million people have been displaced from their homes around the world – a number that has more than doubled over the past decade.

The United Nations Human Rights Council held its annual membership elections on Wednesday, resulting in the admission of several human rights violating regimes such as Qatar, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Bolivia.

Experts, including two former diplomats representing America at the United Nations, warned Congress in a hearing on Wednesday that China is amassing power within the U.N. structure to “blunt criticism, shut out and stigmatize Taiwan, plug its Belt and Road Initiative, and dilute norms that might be used to hold it accountable.”

The U.N. Human Rights Council demanded Friday that Israel be held accountable for war crimes, without mentioning the atrocities of Hamas.

Nicaragua’s brutal socialist dictator Daniel Ortega hosted a meeting on Wednesday with Gen. Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of Russia’s Security Council, and several other high-ranking Russian security officials. 

Iran, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, will become the chair of the U.N. Human rights Council Social Forum on Thursday.

Pakistani media reported on Monday that the government has deported 59,561 Afghan migrants in less than a month, with seven days to go until Islamabad’s deadline for all illegal migrants to return to Afghanistan.

The United Nations Human Rights Council held a moment of silence on Monday to mourn the “loss of innocent lives in the occupied Palestinian territory and elsewhere,” without mentioning Hamas’s terror attack against innocent Israelis.

The figurehead “president of Cuba,” Miguel Díaz-Canel, told the U.N. General Assembly Cuba will seek reelection to the Human Rights Council.

Volker Turk, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, declared Monday the planet is “[…] burning. It’s melting. It’s flooding. It’s depleting. It’s drying. It’s dying,” as he evoked a “dystopian future” for all unless “climate change” is addressed.

The 52nd session of the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) convened this week — with 70 percent of the membership consisting of autocracies, dictatorships, and other non-democratic nations.

Israel has called on the United Nations, the Vatican and other global bodies to act “urgently” for the release of Israelis held captive by Hamas, after the Gaza-ruling terror group released a proof-of-life video of one of them earlier this week.

Venezuela’s socialist regime failed to obtain the necessary votes to be reelected into the United Nations Human Rights Council for a three-year term during the body’s elections on Tuesday. 

The conservative administration in power in Brazil joined far-left Argentina and Mexico in declining to sign a statement against the Russian invasion of Ukraine at the Organization of American States (OAS) on Thursday.

The nations on the U.N. Human Rights Council voted on Thursday against discussing China’s ongoing genocide of Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and other Turkic people in East Turkistan, a decision aided by the abstentions of nations such as Ukraine and Brazil.

The United Nations Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (FFMV) released a report on Tuesday detailing how the socialist regime of Nicolás Maduro — which currently holds a seat at the U.N. Human Rights Council —  has utilized its intelligence and military agencies to carry out crimes against humanity.

Qatar’s United Nations envoy lost her bid to become chair of the upcoming U.N. Forum on Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law, after a watchdog group revealed she had called Jews “our enemies” and gays “disgusting.” U.N. Watch called

CARACAS, Venezuela  – The United Nations Human Rights Council began its 51st session in Geneva on Monday with the Latin American dictatorships of Cuba and Venezuela among its members – despite their lengthy track record of human rights violations.

The United Nations Human Rights Council began its 51st session on Monday with a new high commissioner and under heavy global scrutiny following the recent publication of a report on the Uyghur genocide in China that notably did not use the word “genocide” to describe Beijing’s campaign in East Turkistan.

China’s ambassador to the United Nations, Chen Xu, said on Friday that his government will no longer cooperate with the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) following its release of a report on China’s human rights abuses against the Uyghur Muslims of Xinjiang province.

The head of a United Nations probe against Israel has come under fire after a member of the inquiry panel was quoted as saying social media was controlled by the “Jewish lobby” and Israel, which is in “systematic violation” of all human rights law, and should not even be included in the globalist body.

The U.N. Human Rights Council’s “bogus and baseless commission” on the Jewish State perpetuates “a longstanding U.N. practice of unfairly singling out our ally Israel while refusing to hold actual bad actors accountable,”

Iran executed more than 100 people, including minors and women, within a space of three months in 2022, a report by U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres released Tuesday said.

The communist government of Cuba hijacked this week’s ongoing U.N. Human Rights Council session to deliver a statement, signed by 69 countries, in support of China’s genocide of Uyghur and other non-Han ethnic groups in occupied East Turkistan.

China’s state-run Global Times on Saturday exploited the second anniversary of George Floyd’s death to push the Communist Party narrative that America does not have the moral standing to criticize China’s horrendous human rights abuses.

Uyghur rights groups are calling on U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet to resign after her long-delayed visit to China turned into a whitewash of the Uyghur genocide. 

According to a Chinese police officer quoted by Radio Free Asia (RFA) on Wednesday, the Chinese government has issued directives across the Xinjiang region forbidding its captive population, the Uyghur Muslims, from discussing the brainwashing camps in their province.

The Chinese Communist Party’s latest tactic for whitewashing the mass imprisonment, brainwashing, and enslavement of the Uyghur Muslims involves recruiting young foreign travel bloggers to depict the Uyghurs’ home of Xinjiang Province as a happy land of content and productive citizens.

The Center for a Free Cuba published a letter signed by more than 600 human rights activists, diplomats, and public figures this week calling for the United Nations to remove the communist regime of Cuba from the Human Rights Council for its decades-long record of atrocities against its people.

The United Nations General Assembly voted Thursday to suspend Russia from its membership in the U.N. Human Rights Council — though other rights-abusing nations, such as China, Cuba, and Venezuela, remain members in good standing.

The government of Russia complained in anticipation of a vote to expel it on Thursday that its potential exit from the United Nations Human Rights Council would “discredit” the body and erode public “trust” in it, despite some of the world’s worst human rights violators remaining on the Council even with Russia’s ouster.

President Joe Biden brought the U.S. back into the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in 2021 knowing that countries with terrible human rights records, like Russia, were members — which is partly why President Donald Trump left it.

The United Nations on Monday objected to Kazakhstan’s use of blue U.N. peacekeeper helmets on some of the troops it deployed to suppress protests over the weekend. 

Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, whose country sits on the United Nations Human Rights Council, on Friday ordered his security forces – reinforced over the past few days with Russian paratroopers – to shoot demonstrators in cold blood, without warning.