Posts Tagged: UN Human Rights Council
Trump Stops US Involvement With UN Rights Body, Extends UNRWA Funding Halt
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered an end to US engagement with the United Nations Human Rights Council and continued a halt to funding for the UN Palestinian relief agency UNRWA. The move...
Israel Issues Detailed Response Refuting UN Human Rights Office Accusations of Indiscriminate Bombing
Israel has issued a detailed response refuting a recently published report by the United Nations Human Rights Office accusing the Jewish state of carrying out...
UN Office Accuses Israel of Indiscriminate Bombing, Human Rights Violations in Latest Shot at Jewish State
The United Nations Human Rights Office on Wednesday published a report accusing Israel of carrying out several indiscriminate military strikes against Palestinians in Gaza since...
US Backs IHRA Antisemitism Definition After UN Criticism
The Biden Administration on Friday repeated its support for the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism after it was criticized by a top...
US Lawmakers Urge UN Commission of Inquiry on Israel to be Dissolved
i24 News – A group of bipartisan US lawmakers called for the United Nations to discontinue the Commission of Inquiry (COI) on Israel, the West...
The UN Human Rights Council Does More Harm Than Good
Monday, June 13, marked the opening of the 50th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC). The two main speeches of the day...
Why Is the United States Still Paying for the UN’s Antisemitic Farce?
JNS.org - Another day, another instance of officially sanctioned UN antisemitism. This week, the UN Human Rights Council accepted the latest report of its Special...
Watchdog: Head of UN Probe Must Resign Over ‘Demonstrable Bias Against Israel’
A watchdog group on Monday called for the chair of the United Nations commission of inquiry into the May conflict between Israel and the Palestinian...
Israel Said to Prepare Diplomatic Campaign to Discredit UN Inquiry
Israel is reportedly embarking on a diplomatic campaign to discredit a United Nations commission of inquiry that was set up to investigate alleged human rights...
42 Members of Congress Press Blinken to ‘Defund’ UN’s New Anti-Israel Commission of Inquiry
A bipartisan group of 42 members of Congress in a Tuesday letter called on Secretary of State Antony Blinken to lead an effort to defund...
US Jewish Leaders ‘Appalled’ by UN Vote to Approve Funding for ‘One-Sided’ Permanent Inquiry Into Israel
Leaders of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations voiced their dismay at last week’s majority vote at the United National General Assembly...
Hundreds of Lawmakers Urge UN to Stamp Out ‘Systematic’ Discrimination Against Israel
Legislators and parliamentarians from Europe and North America are calling upon EU member countries and global democracies to help end the “systematic” discrimination against Israel...
Stop Enabling the UN Human Rights Council
A line that I’m often reminded of when following the United Nations is the idea that it is an institution built on the ashes of...
President Biden Must Aggressively Push to Reform the UN Human Rights Council
The Biden administration has sought to differentiate itself from its predecessor in many arenas, foreign policy included. Yet it has endorsed a self-evident truth acknowledged...
