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How UN ‘human rights experts’ became a tool of dictatorships - opinion

The corruption of the system did not happen overnight. As dictatorships gained influence inside the UNHRC, they learned they need not abolish the language of human rights to weaken it.

Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, attends a news conference during the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, March 24, 2026.
UN special rapporteur on human rights in Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese attends press conference in Geneva

Francesca Albanese denounces 'toxic' attacks against her

An Afghan Taliban fighter sits on a tank near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in Spin Boldak, Kandahar Province, following exchanges of fire between Pakistani and Afghan forces

UN rights chief says Taliban decree expands executions, deepens repression

A protester waves the pre-Islamic Revolution Iranian flag outside UN headquarters during a United Nations Security Council meeting on Iran in New York on January 15, 2026.

'Nuremberg moment': UN Human Rights Council adopts motion for probe into Iran protest violence


Israel summons Philippines ambassador over anti-Israel UNHRC vote

“It is unacceptable that a country like the Philippines, which suffers from extremist, murderous Islamic terrorism in its south, would support a decision that ignores the Hamas...war crimes."

Muslim rebels shout Allahu Akbar during an assembly at Darapanan the main base of the MILF on the southern island of Mindanao.

Muslim countries seek UN probe into possible crimes in Gaza conflict

Since being set up in 2006, the UN rights council, a 47-member forum, has held eight previous special sessions that have condemned Israel and set up several probes into alleged war crimes.

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Biden must push to reform UN Human Rights Council - opinion

The Trump administration decided to withdraw from the UNHRC in 2018, calling it “a hypocritical and self-serving organization that makes a mockery of human rights.”

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Biden administration must push to reform UN Human Rights Council -opinion

The Trump administration decided to withdraw from the UNHRC in 2018, calling it “a hypocritical and self-serving organization that makes a mockery of human rights.”

US President Joe Biden speaks in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, US, March 15, 2021

Israel needs to stop arming Azerbaijan - opinion

It is disgraceful that descendants of the Holocaust are arming Azerbaijan to kill survivors of the Armenian Genocide for a fistful of dollars!

A TANK from Azerbaijan drives on a street

EU supports Israel on Golan at UNHRC as Agenda Item 7 opposition grows

German envoy Michael Frelherr von Ungern-Sternberg said that "while hundreds of thousand of Syrians suffer at the hands of the regime, this text focuses only on Israel."

President of the Human Rights Council Elisabeth Tichy-Fisslberger, wearing a protective face mask, attends the resuming of a United Nations Human Rights Council session before an urgent debate on allegations of "systemic racism, police brutality and violence against peaceful protests" in the United

UNHRC arms embargo call against Israel passes with EU OK, Bahrain absence

Those six countries that opposed the resolution were: Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Malawi and Togo.

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Nikki Haley condemns Biden decision to rejoin Human Rights Council, UNRWA

"If China, Russia, and Cuba started an organization that celebrated their tyranny in the name of human rights, would the United States want to join?"

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley delivers remarks to the press announcing the US's withdrawal from the UN's Human Rights Council at the Department of State in Washington, US, June 19, 2018

Blinken: US to run for UNHRC seat, abolish anti-Israel bias

"We urge the Human Rights Council to look at how it conducts its business. That includes its disproportionate focus on Israel."

Newly confirmed U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives for a welcome ceremony at the State Department in Washington, U.S., January 27, 2021.

Can the US under Biden change the UNHRC? - opinion

Only a superpower like the United States can initiate change within the body.

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