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Qatari ambassador to UN who called Jews ‘our enemies’ loses bid to chair rights...

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The Qatari ambassador to the United Nations, Hend al-Muftah, lost her bid to become chair of the upcoming U.N. Forum on Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law after a watchdog group revealed...
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley addresses the 10th emergency special session of the General Assembly on: “Illegal Israeli actions in Occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory.” Credit: U.N. Photo/Evan Schneider.

Citing ‘chronic bias against Israel,’ the US quits the UN Human Rights Council

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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley announced on Tuesday that the United States is pulling out of the U.N. Human Rights Council, citing the world body’s “chronic” bias against Israel as one...
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Britain: UN Human Rights Council must end its anti-Israel bias

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The United Kingdom called on the U.N. Human Rights Council to ends its long-standing bias against Israel and drop the controversial agenda item singling out the Jewish state. “We share the view that the dedicated...
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Prince Zeid bin Ra’ad Zeid al-Hussein. Credit: U.N. Photo/Pierre Albouy

UN Human Rights Council approves ‘war crimes’ probe into Gaza deaths; Israel and US...

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The United Nations Human Rights Council approved a “war crimes” probe on Friday to “provide recommendations to protect civilians against any further assaults” in the Gaza Strip. The resolution was approved in a 29-2 vote,...

UN Human Rights Council passes five resolutions against Israel

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The United Nations Human Rights Council passed five anti-Israel resolutions at the end of its 37th session in Geneva, under the “Agenda Item 7,” a UNHRC mandate that a discussion of Israeli human rights...