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U.S. Withdraws from United Nations Human Rights Council

U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley accused the council of hypocrisy and anti-Israel bias. U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley .....»»

Category: europeSource: fortuneJun 19th, 2018

In Stunning Rebuke, UN Votes To Investigate Israel For Gaza Mass Shootings

The United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) just issued a stunning rebuke to Israel, voting through a resolution calling on the council to "urgently dispatch an i.....»»

Category: blogSource: zerohedgeMay 18th, 2018

Trump Administration Poised to Pull U.S. Out of U.N. Human Rights Council Over Israel Criticism

Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, publicly told the Council a year ago that Washington might leave the body unless a “chronic anti-Israel bias” were removed. .....»»

Category: topSource: newsweekJun 16th, 2018

The Wall Street Journal: U.S. pulling out of U.N. Human Rights Council

The Trump administration said Tuesday it is withdrawing from the United Nations Human Rights Council, delivering on a long-running threat to leave the organization unless it made major changes......»»

Category: topSource: marketwatchJun 19th, 2018

The US has withdrawn from "hypocritical and self-serving" UN Human Rights Council for being a "cesspool" of bias, particularly against Israel

Drew Angerer/Getty Images The US officially withdrew from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Tuesday, citing the organization's political bias particularly against its ally Israel. US Ambassador to the UN.....»»

Category: topSource: businessinsiderJun 19th, 2018

The US has withdrawn from what it calls the hypocritical and self-serving UN Human Rights Council, citing bias against Israel

Drew Angerer/Getty Images The US officially withdrew from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Tuesday, citing the organization's political bias particularly against its ally Israel. US Ambassador to the UN.....»»

Category: topSource: businessinsiderJun 19th, 2018

US ditches the UN"s Human Rights Council and calls it "hypocritical and self-serving" on its way out the door

Drew Angerer/Getty Images The US officially withdrew from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Tuesday, citing the organization's political bias particularly against its ally Israel. US Ambassador to the UN.....»»

Category: topSource: businessinsiderJun 20th, 2018

Russia wants to swoop in on the empty spot left by the US on the UN Human Rights Council

Drew Angerer/Getty Images Russia is eyeing a spot on the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) following the US withdrawal on Tuesday.  Russia has put forward its candidacy for a three-yea.....»»

Category: topSource: businessinsiderJun 21st, 2018

Israel Poised For Complete Annexation Of West Bank, UN Warns

Just prior to a United Nations Human Rights Council me.....»»

Category: blogSource: zerohedgeJul 3rd, 2018

Human rights lawyer who investigated Jamal Khashoggi"s murder explains why she"s hopeful that the case could still be solved

Panorama team/BBC Panorama United Nations rapporteur Agnès Callamard investigated Jamal Khashoggi's death for six months. She presented a 100-page report in June that provided credible evidence that .....»»

Category: topSource: businessinsiderNov 23rd, 2019

Why U.S. Teachers Are Protesting Alongside Cages in Geneva

"I don’t think you can pick and choose which kids you fight for." As the United Nations Human Rights Commission convened Monday morning in Geneva, Switzerland, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) held a ra.....»»

Category: europeSource: fortuneJun 17th, 2019

UN Calls on Trump Administration to Stop Separating Immigrant Children from Parents

The United Nations Human Rights Office asked U.S. authorities to “immediately halt” the practice of separating immigrant children from their parents on the southern U.S.-Mexico border Tuesday morning......»»

Category: topSource: newsweekJun 5th, 2018

US withdraws from UN Human Rights Council

US withdraws from UN Human Rights Council.....»»

Category: videosSource: videonewsindexJun 20th, 2018

In Shocking UN Accusation, China Said To Hold 1 Million Uighur Muslims In "Massive Internment Camps"

A breaking report based on findings of a United Nations human rights panel accuses China of holding up to one million ethnic Uighurs in what the report says resembles a “massive internment camp that is shrouded in secr.....»»

Category: blogSource: zerohedgeAug 11th, 2018

Human rights organization says China has 1 million ethnic minorities in "internment camps"

Thomson Reuters The Turkic mostly Muslim Uighur minority in China's Xinjiang region face arbitrary detentions, daily restrictions on religious practice and "forced political indoctrination," Human Rights Watch says. The United Nations.....»»

Category: topSource: businessinsiderSep 10th, 2018

China Defends Mass "Re-education Camps" As Uighur Muslims "Transformed For The Better"

Two months after a United Nations human rights panel first accused C.....»»

Category: blogSource: zerohedgeOct 16th, 2018

Facebook says it didn"t do enough to prevent "offline violence" in Myanmar

United Nations human rights experts investigating violence in the country concluded that Facebook played a "determining role" in the crisis.....»»

Category: topSource: moneycentralNov 6th, 2018

China Faces Off With Critics of Muslim Detentions

Chinese delegates delivered a defiant defense of its mass detentions of Muslims at a United Nations human-rights panel in Geneva on Tuesday that became a showdown with the U.S. and other critics of the Chinese policy......»»

Category: asiaSource: wsjNov 7th, 2018

UN Reviewing Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, China, Mexico

Routine reviews offer criticisms, suggest reforms. Three times a year the United Nations reviews fourteen countries’ human rights records on a rotating basis and issues recommendations. Saudi Arabia and China‘s .....»»

Category: europeSource: fortuneNov 8th, 2018

China Parades "Re-educated" Uighur Muslims On State TV To Extol Prison Camps

When previously last year the United Nations began scrutinizing claims that China has interned one million of its ethnic Uighur Muslim in "re-education" camps, Beijing stridently denied such charges, but now months after Western media and human rights gro.....»»

Category: blogSource: zerohedgeJan 3rd, 2019

U.S. Treasury sanctions two Chinese officials over human-rights abuses in Xinjiang region

The United States Treasury announced sanctions Monda.....»»

Category: topSource: marketwatchMar 22nd, 2021