Posts Tagged: UN Human Rights Council
The Human Rights Council’s Alternate Reality Show
The 47-member United Nations Human Rights Council, based in Geneva, works "for the promotion and protection of all human rights around the globe." That's what...
Israel’s Lieberman Says UN Rights Council Supports Terrorist Rights
Arutz Sheva - Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman slammed the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Wednesday, over its intention to launch an investigation into...
In Qatari-Backed Trip, UN’s Ban Ki-moon Laid Low by Israel’s Peres: ‘Mr. Secretary-General, They Even Use Your UNRWA Schools to Store Their Rockets’
Israeli President Shimon Peres on Wednesday told United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that Israel would not stand by while Qatar, which paid for the...
Opinion: The UN’s Unending Effort to Undermine Israel’s Self-Defense
The 20th century job description of the United Nations was "to maintain international peace and security" based on "the sovereign equality of all its members,"...
Premature Palestinian Empathy Syndrome
JNS.0rg - A Washington Post foreign affairs blogger, Ishaan Tharoor, listed the names, ages, and places of death of the 83 Palestinian Arabs killed in...
U.S. Leadership Needed as UN Human Rights Council Convenes
On March 3, 2014, the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) convened in Geneva. The United States cannot be without an ambassador representing the interests of...
Canada Calls for UN Official Richard Falk’s Dismissal After Accusing Israel of Genocide
JNS.org - Canada has called on the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to dismiss its special investigator, Richard Falk, over a recent statement...
Anti-Semitism to Blame for Double Standard on Israel
This week Israel caved in to European and American pressure to further subject itself to egregious discrimination at the United Nations. The move was in...
U.S., EU Force Israel to Face Discrimination at the UN
The United Nations is gearing up for yet another attack upon Israel - even more outrageous on this occasion because it has been arranged in...
Watchdog Group Denounces UN Human Rights Council for Ignoring Syria While Censuring Israel (VIDEO)
UN Human Rights Council. Photo: wiki commons. UN Watch, a watchdog NGO, denounced the United Nations Human Rights Council Tuesday for behaving...
Iran and Syria Seek Seats on UN Human Rights Council
JNS.org - Iran and Syria, countries often scrutinized for their human rights abuses, are among the seven nations in the Asia group vying...
The Russell Tribunal – Kangaroos in Smart Clothing….
With humble apologies and much respect to the fabulous Australian marsupials, it must be said that the Russell Tribunal is nothing more than a kangaroo...
Turning “Human Rights” Into a Weapon Against Israel
Today at the United Nations in New York City, the UN's top women's rights body, the Commission on the Status of Women, will wrap up...
The Myth of Jewish Settlements in International Law
By permitting Jewish residence in the West Bank, is Israel ignoring international law? Ruth Gavison, a law professor at Jerusalem's Hebrew University,...
