Human Rights Council

'I am proof of Hamas's violence': Ex-hostage Ilana Gritzewsky tells 'Post' of sexual abuse in Gaza

A Hamas terrorist was "hugging me, kissing me, saying that I'm beautiful, that I'm going to marry him," Gritzewsky told the Post • 'I am a woman who survived'

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
Former hostage Ilana Gritzewsky sharing her experience of sexual abuse at the UN Human Rights Council.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk (C) speaks during a press conference as part of his working visit to South Korea at the Seoul Global Center in Seoul on May 13, 2026.

City of al-Obeid in Sudan facing human rights catastrophe, UN high commissioner warns council

"The signs from al-Obeid are clear and unmistakable: Another human rights catastrophe is unfolding in Sudan, this time in the capital of the strategic state of North Kordofan," Volker Turk said.

|ByREUTERS
Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, attends a news conference during the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, March 24, 2026.

How UN ‘human rights experts’ became a tool of dictatorships - opinion

The corruption of the system did not happen overnight. As dictatorships gained influence inside the UNHRC, they learned they need not abolish the language of human rights to weaken it.

|ByDINA ROVNER
People and rescue forces work following an Israel strike on a school in Minab, Iran, February 28, 2026.

Primary school strike prompts Iran to request urgent UN Human Rights debate

The attack on the Shajareh ​Tayyebeh School consisted of two missile strikes ​in quick succession that killed 168 children, mostly ⁠girls, Iranian officials say.

|ByREUTERS, MIRIAM SELA-EITAM

UN human rights chief calls on Israel to temporarily halt judicial reform

One of the bill's key components will add restrictions on the judicial review of Basic Laws.

FEBRUARY 21, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Volker Turk holds a news conference in Caracas, Venezuela January 28, 2023.

Israel accuses UN human rights chief of blaming terror attacks on victims

Israel stated that the Geneva human rights community remained silent on the shooting in Neveh Ya'acov for a week.

FEBRUARY 4, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Volker Turk holds a news conference in Caracas, Venezuela January 28, 2023

UNHRC discriminates against Israel, should send rapporteur home - opinion

Appointing a UNHRC rapporteur to Israel is an outrageous and totally fictitious antisemitic assessment of the relationship between our Arab citizens and residents, and the Jewish Israeli public.

JANUARY 31, 2023ByWALTER BINGHAM
MICHAEL LYNK, then-special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, attends a session of the Human Rights Council at the UN in Geneva, in 2019.

Discrimination, demonization and delegitimization has no place at the UN - opinion

Navi Pillay wrote a letter to the president of the Human Rights Council, alleging that her colleagues were being "deliberately misquoted."

DECEMBER 17, 2022ByDANIEL S. MARIASCHIN, DAVID J. MICHAELS
NAVI PILLAY, who heads the newest UN ‘commission of inquiry’ on Israel, has been called out for prejudice, say the writers.

UNHRC to hold special session on Iran, human rights violations

The UNHRC needed one-third of the 47 members of the Council's support is required in order to hold a special session.

NOVEMBER 21, 2022ByNOA FEIGENBAUM
Deputy Minister, Alvin Botes delivers a National Statement at the Annual High Level Panel on Human Rights Mainstreaming under the theme “Thirty years of implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child: challenges and opportunities”, at the UNHRC, Geneva.

Would the FBI come to different conclusion of Shireen Abu Akleh's death? - editorial

The US administration said that the ballistics test of the bullet fragment was "inconclusive." The UNHRC came to a similar conclusion.

NOVEMBER 16, 2022ByJPOST EDITORIAL
Palestinians walk in front of a mural depicting the slain Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh ahead of the visit of US President Joe Biden at Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank July 13, 2022

Europe calls for UNHRC debate on Iran protests, human rights violations

Germany and Iceland submitted a request on Friday on behalf of dozens of countries to hold a special session at the UN Human Rights Council on the ongoing protests in Iran.

NOVEMBER 12, 2022ByREUTERS
Overview of the session of the Human Rights Council during the speech of U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, February 27, 2020.

Diplomatic invective: UN takes its war on Israel to next level - opinion

the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry (COI) did not mention a word about Hamas. It only dealt with Israel, which appears 277 times in the report. 

NOVEMBER 4, 2022ByDORE GOLD
MEMBERS OF THE United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Navanethem Pillay, Miloon Kothari and Chris Sidoti, attend a press briefing at the United Nations headquarters in New York, last week.

Jewish organizations denounce UN's COI report: 'Distorted and biased'

OCTOBER 22, 2022ByOMRI NAHMIAS
Overview of the session of the Human Rights Council during the speech of U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, February 27, 2020.

The United Nations needs to be reimagined and reformed - opinion

A survey in The Washington Post said 84% of people agree with the statement: “I would rather be a citizen of America than of any other country in the world.”

OCTOBER 18, 2022ByERIC R. MANDEL
THE UNITED NATIONS headquarters building in New York City, and the UN logo: Today’s UN needs to be reimagined and reformed to address the limited problems it can effectively handle, says the writer.