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Despite jailing critics and dissidents, Cuba keeps seat on U.N. Human Rights Council
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 7 months agoCuba was reelected Tuesday to the United Nations Human Rights Council despite criticism from several...
Russia says it deserves a seat on the UN Human Rights Council. It may have a shot
CNN via Yahoo News· 7 months agoRussia is campaigning for a return to the United Nations’ Human Rights Council – after being...
UN: More than 300,000 civilians killed in Syria's conflict
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe first 10 years of Syria’s conflict, which started in 2011, killed more than 300,000 civilians,...
United Nations refugee agency condemns Sunak’s small boats legislation
Press Association News via AOL· 1 year agoThe United Nations’ refugee agency has urged MPs and peers to block Rishi Sunak’s “profoundly”...
Researchers hope tracking senior Myanmar army officers can ascertain blame for human rights abuses
Associated Press Finance via Yahoo Finance· 6 months agoA group of human rights researchers officially launched a website Wednesday that they hope will help...
UN envoy warns Sudan conflict risks turning into 'full-scale war' as fighting intensifies
ABC News via Yahoo News· 8 months agoUnited Nations special envoy to Sudan, Volker Perthes, has warned the conflict risks "morphing into...
Implicated in Payá’s death, Cuba should be ousted from U.N. Human Rights Council | Opinion
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 10 months agoThe Cuban regime finally is being held responsible for the murder of Oswaldo Payá, one of the...
Sen. Mike Lee, Rep. John Curtis support legislation to cut funding from United Nations
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 6 months agoFinnish U.N. peacekeepers patrol the Lebanese side of the Lebanese-Israeli border in the southern...
Russia seeks to rejoin UN Human Rights Council despite its war on Ukraine
CNN via Yahoo News· 7 months agoRussia is formally seeking to rejoin the United Nations’ Human Rights Council, nearly 18 months after it was suspended from the body following its invasion of Ukraine.
UN asks Syria to extend deadline for post-quake aid access
Reuters via Yahoo News· 12 months agoThe United Nations has asked Syria's government to extend its approval for two additional crossings...