Human Rights Council

Eli Sharabi asks UN Human Rights Council to 'name these crimes,' recognize hostage abuse as torture

“I have chosen the road of justice, beyond politics and grounded in our shared humanity,” he said. “This council must recognize the torture, demand criminal investigations, and confront the terror."

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
Eli Sharabi, a former hostage, holds a photograph of himself during his release by Hamas as he the United Nations Security Council in New York City, US, March 20, 2025
Neta Heiman Mina, whose mother was held hostage in Gaza for nearly 2 months, speaks to a UN human rights panel on September 15, 2026.

Daughter of former Gaza hostage confronts UN over UNRWA funding despite Hamas ties

UNRWA was founded in 1949 and operates in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, providing humanitarian aid and education for Palestinians.

|ByMAYA ZANGER-SHAMIR
Palestinians walk past a destroyed Israeli armored vehicle left behind by the Israeli army during the recent war, in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City, September 7, 2026.

UN human rights chief accuses Israel of war crimes following remains discovered under Gaza rubble

He claimed that the discoveries revived concerns raised in a 2024 UN report that found Israeli strikes on residential buildings during the early weeks of the war may have violated humanitarian law.

|ByREUTERS
The UN Charter was not intended to create a supranational government, but an organization with limited powers dependent on the good faith of its sovereign member states.PremiumPremium

The United Nations has drifted beyond its charter - it is time to rethink it - opinion

As political majorities increasingly push the UN beyond the limits of its Charter, institutional renewal has become an urgent necessity

|ByALAN BAKER

UN votes to suspend Russia from Human Rights Council over Ukraine

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid: "The vote today does not change our position on the UN Human Rights Council."

APRIL 7, 2022ByREUTERS
A screen with the result of a vote is pictured during the special session on the situation in Ukraine of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, March 4, 2022.

US, Europe plan further Russia sanctions as Ukraine civilian death toll mounts

US, Germany and France promised new sanctions against Russia as images of war crimes in Bucha, Ukraine drew international outcry.

APRIL 5, 2022ByREUTERS
A soldier takes a photograph of his comrade as he poses beside a destroyed Russian tank and armoured vehicles, amid Russia's invasion on Ukraine, in Bucha, in Kyiv region

UN must hold Israel guilty of crimes of apartheid, investigator says

Michael Lynk's report upgrades the drive to label Israel as an apartheid state because it will be posted on the UN's internet and written into the UNHRC record.

MARCH 23, 2022ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
Israel Apartheid Week at Columbia University.

US State Department official addresses return to UN Human Rights Council

The Biden administration has committed to aggressively confront anti-Israel bias in the UNHRC wherever and whenever it appears.

FEBRUARY 16, 2022ByOMRI NAHMIAS
Overview of the UN Human Rights Council during a debate at the United Nations in Geneva

Israel pressing to stop UNHRC from labeling it an apartheid state

It is expected that four resolutions against Israel will be passed at the UNHRC’s 49th session, due to be held from February 28 to April 1.

JANUARY 27, 2022ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
THE UN Human Rights Council meets in Geneva, February 2020.

UNHRC approves Durban resolution, 10 nations oppose over antisemitism

Israel had worked behind the scenes to sway UNHRC members to oppose the resolution and to refuse to allow the pro-Durban resolution to pass by consensus

OCTOBER 12, 2021ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
SEATS NORMALLY occupied by the United States delegation are empty one day after the US announced its withdrawal from the UN’s Human Rights Council, at the United Nations in Geneva on June 20, 2018

UK, Germany to let UN Durban resolution pass after boycotting last month

The resolution in Geneva reaffirms support for the 2001 Durban Declaration which singles out Israel as a perpetrator of racism.

OCTOBER 10, 2021ByLAHAV HARKOV
THE UN Human Rights Council meets in Geneva, February 2020.

UN calls for water equity between Israelis and Palestinians

“Roughly 14,000 Palestinians in approximately 180 communities in Area C have no connection to a water network... and are considered at high risk for water scarcity,” the UN report said.

OCTOBER 3, 2021ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
Israeli and Palestinian demonstrators demonstrate against the cutting of water supply for Palestinians villages, in the southern area of the West bank town of Hebron, on October 2, 2021.

UNHRC cuts off UN Watch for quoting antisemitic posts by UNRWA teachers

The UNHRC cut off UN Watch for quoting antisemitic posts by UNRWA teachers, saying it was an unacceptable personal attack.

OCTOBER 3, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Deputy Minister, Alvin Botes delivers a National Statement at the Annual High Level Panel on Human Rights Mainstreaming under the theme “Thirty years of implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child: challenges and opportunities”, at the UNHRC, Geneva.

Israel critics comprise UNHRC’s permanent war-crimes probe

All three panelists have a history of activism and inflammatory rhetoric against Israel.

JULY 22, 2021ByLAHAV HARKOV
A GAZA CITY building housing the offices of the Associated Press and Al Jazeera is hit by Israeli missile strikes on May 15.