Every now and then, the leaders of the U.S. diplomatic apparatus actually do something that is in the interest of the U.S. The recent withdrawal of the U.S. from the United Nations Human Rights Council is a case in point.
Israel’s response to violent attacks across its Gaza border were “wholly disproportionate” and an international investigation must now be convened, the UN human rights chief said Friday.
Contents: Burma (Myanmar) blocks UN investigator from investigating atrocities against Rohingyas; Burma officials, including Aung San Suu Kyi, may face genocide charges
The United Nation’s top human rights official, who has been a frequent and often theatrical critic of President Donald Trump, has decided not to seek another term.
The head of U.N.’s top human rights agency has reportedly been sending letters to companies that do business in Israeli settlements.
TEL AVIV – The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations slammed the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, for reportedly “blacklisting” companies with business dealings in eastern Jerusalem and the West Bank.
The U.N.’s head of human rights took another shot at President Trump Wednesday, criticizing the president’s “poisonous” stance toward the liberal media – the latest in a line of anti-Trump statements from the human rights chief.
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — A top UAE official on Wednesday accused Qatari broadcast giant Al-Jazeera of anti-Semitism, discrimination and inciting religious hate, in a rebuttal to UN accusations of attacking freedom of expression.
Contents: DRC’s president Kabila refusal to step down threatens African stability; Catholic Church report documents massive government atrocities in DRC’s Kasai region; Brief generational history of DRC’s Kasai region
Contents: Christian vs Muslim violence continues to spread across Central African Republic; CAR refugees threaten to spread Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo
The UN rights chief warned Tuesday that a “tidal wave of bloodshed” over more than six years of war in Syria had effectively turned the country into a “torture chamber”.
On Friday, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein of Jordan, called the siege and bombing of Aleppo by Russian and Syrian forces “crimes of historic proportions,” described the besieged city as a “slaughterhouse,” and called for prosecution by the International Criminal Court.
The UN human rights council opened a special session on Syria’s devastated city Aleppo on Friday, with rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein demanding action against “crimes of historic proportions.”
In a highly intemperate open letter, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has attacked Geert Wilders, Nigel Farage, Donald Trump and a number of leaders of populist movements around the world as “demagogues and political fantasists.”
On Tuesday, United Nations human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein said current U.S. gun laws “lack rational justification.”
(REUTERS) — The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights launched a thinly veiled attack on U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump and other presidential hopefuls on Friday, in a speech entitled “The road to violence.”
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has demanded an investigation into reports from the African nation of Burundi of the discovery of mass graves with hundreds of bodies and soldiers gang-raping women.
Contents: Taiwan may reverse South China Sea policy and oppose China; Burundi calls planned African Union peacekeeping force ‘an attack’
Contents: Thousands of cars in China stuck in week-long traffic jam; Fears in Israel grow of ‘third intifada’ as West Bank violence spreads; Anger and frustration grow among West Bank Palestinians; Four Russian cruise missiles fall in Iran; Severe epidemic of dengue fever strikes Vietnam
Nearly 800 migrants from Burma and Bangladesh were rescued by local fishermen when their boat sank off the eastern coast of Indonesia. The migrants were brought to shore, given food and water, and placed in a warehouse.
Yemen crisis continues growth into major war and humanitarian crisis; Pakistan debates Saudi Arabia’s call for help
