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More Yemenis expected to flee from upsurge in fighting, UN says
A UNHCR response plan for Yemen was less than 20% funded before the renewed violence caused a surge in needs, a statement said.
PA must end torture, arbitrary detention of Palestinians in West Bank, UN rights office demands
UN Human Rights Council orders urgent inquiry into escalating RSF violence in Sudan
How UN ‘human rights experts’ became a tool of dictatorships - opinion
'Hubris and self-righteousness': UN's Albanese slams Israel's withdrawal from UNHRC
Albanese claimed that Israel's decision shows a "lack of realization of what they have done. They insist on self-righteousness."
FM Sa'ar announces Israel withdraws from UNHRC
This move comes a day after US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to withdraw the US from the UNHRC on Tuesday.
UN rights chief calls on states to challenge Israel over 'occupation'
The UN human rights chief has announced that ending the conflict in Gaza is a priority, saying that the Western war needs to stop enabling the war by scapegoating immigrants.
Education first step to addressing antisemitism at UNHRC, Amb. Taylor says - exclusive
It’s part of a “growing effort to address this issue throughout the United Nations” in general and at the UNHRC in specific in a ‘more direct way.
'Normalizing taking hostages and rape': Hostage families slam UNHRC sexual violence report
Leshem Gonen stated the report compiled by the COI “has failed to properly address” the accounts of “sexual violence that occurred on the day of the attack [October 7] and during captivity.”
Most Brits would support the UK ending arms sales to Israel, poll finds
Pressue to end arms sales to Israel has increased since an Israeli airstrike mistakenly killed seven aid workers in Gaza.
UNHRC calls for arms embargo against Israel, asks it to prevent genocide
The resolution did not mention Hamas or condemn it for the invasion of Israel on October 7, in which 1,200 people were killed and 253 seized as hostages.
‘It was like a horror movie,’ Oct. 7 survivors tell UNHRC
A relative of Israeli-Bedouin hostages, Yosef Hamis Ziadna and his son Hamza, and a Nova music festival survivor addressed the UN Human Rights Council about October 7 and the lasting impact it has.
UN rights chief says essential to avoid conflagration in Gaza war
The Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah and Israel have been locked in hostilities for months in parallel to the Gaza war, the worst conflict between the two since 2006.
Iran’s FM in Geneva for UN, ICRC meetings
Iran, which backs Hamas and supported the October 7 massacre in Israel by Hamas, now says that it wants to see political efforts to end the “Gaza crisis.”
