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Palestinian academic Zeina Jallad in a November, 2024 discussion. (Screenshot/Georgetown University Qatar via Youtube)
March 27, 2026, 7:31 pm
UN Rights Council set to appoint expert who called Hamas a ‘resistance movement’
Palestinian academic Zeina Jallad, who wants Israel expelled from international organizations, poised for special rapporteur post, against vetting group’s recommendation
By ToI Staff
File: A representative of Qatar is seen on screens as he delivers a speech on human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran during a session of the UN Human Rights Council, in Geneva on March 16, 2026. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
March 25, 2026, 3:03 pm
Iranian strikes pose ‘existential threat,’ Gulf states tell UN rights council
Council weighing draft resolution condemning Tehran’s ‘egregious attacks’ on its neighbors; Iran urges unity ‘against the evil plans of our common enemy Israel’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Illustrative: The visitors' room at Evin Prison in Tehran, damaged on June 23, 2025, by Israeli airstrikes, seen on July 1, 2025. (AFP)
March 17, 2026, 2:10 pm
UN report: Israeli strike on Iran’s notorious Evin Prison last year was a war crime
Probe says Israel guilty of ‘intentionally directing attacks against civilian object’; IDF: Strike carried out in precise manner to mitigate harm to imprisoned civilians
By Agencies and ToI Staff
United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese looks on at the end of a press conference on the human rights situation in Gaza in Geneva, Switzerland, on September 15, 2025. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)
February 13, 2026, 7:52 pm
UN rights office ‘worried’ after calls for anti-Israel rapporteur Albanese to resign
Czech Republic joins other European nations in demanding resignation, accuses independent expert of referring to Israel as ‘common enemy’ of humanity, which she denies
By Reuters and ToI Staff
A woman crosses an intersection in downtown Tehran, Iran, January 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
January 17, 2026, 10:46 am
Deadly crackdown appears to have quashed Iran protests, residents say
Tehran locals describe large troop deployment in capital, ‘massive disappointment and disillusionment’; hard-line cleric threatens Trump, urges death to detained protesters
By Agencies and ToI Staff
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk delivers his speech at the opening of the 60th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, on September 8, 2025. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
September 16, 2025, 4:46 pm
UN, EU decry ‘unacceptable’ new Gaza City offensive; UK calls it ‘appalling’
Diplomats fume after Israel launches controversial new effort to capture city in the north of the Strip that Jerusalem says is one of Hamas’s last strongholds
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A meeting of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, March 2, 2022. (Denis Balibouse/Pool via AP)
September 15, 2025, 2:09 pm
UN Human Rights Council to hold urgent debate on Israel’s Doha strike
Called by Pakistan and Kuwait, debate is set for Tuesday and is 10th urgent meeting since forum was created in 2006; Israel says decision is ‘absurd’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Navi Pillay (center), chair of the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, briefs reporters on the first report of the Commission, June 14, 2022. On the right is Miloon Kothari, and at left is Chris Sidoti. (UN Photo/Jean Marc Ferré)
August 26, 2025, 8:10 pm
UN inquiry on alleged Israel violence hampered by funding shortfall, document shows
Head of panel, who resigned last month, says it is unable to hire staff, won’t be able to present mandated reports to UN Human Rights Council in March 2026
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Tom Fletcher, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator at the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), visits North Kivu's town of Buhumba, Democratic republic of the Congo, Thursday, June 26, 2025. (AP/Moses Sawasawa)
July 18, 2025, 9:06 am
UN says Israel has refused to renew visas for heads of at least 3 agencies in Gaza
UN’s head of humanitarian affairs claims move, affecting UNRWA and others, aims to thwart efforts to protect Palestinian civilians; Israel says looking into issue, slams UN bias
By AP and ToI Staff
This photo released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, shows Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a televised speech, under a portrait of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, June 13, 2025. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)
June 18, 2025, 2:38 pm
Beleaguered Khamenei warns of ‘irreparable damage’ to US if it strikes, vows to ‘punish’ Israel
In low-resolution video aired on state TV from undisclosed location, supreme leader vows defiance in face of Trump’s demand for ‘unconditional surrender,’ says Israel made a ‘huge mistake’
By Agencies
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk speaks during a press conference in Damascus, Syria, January 15, 2025. (Louai Beshara / AFP)
May 17, 2025, 12:50 am
UN rights chief: Apparent ‘push for permanent demographic shift’ in Gaza amounts to ethnic cleansing
Macron says humanitarian crisis in the Strip is unacceptable, hopes to speak to Netanyahu and Trump soon
By AFP and ToI Staff
A meeting of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, March 2, 2022. (Denis Balibouse/Pool via AP)
April 5, 2025, 11:08 am
Despite withdrawing, US still managing to influence UN Human Rights Council
Diplomats say US lobbying succeeds in blunting Pakistani effort to set up highest-level UN investigation on Israel’s actions in the West Bank and Gaza
By Reuters
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivers a speech at the opening of the 58th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, on February 24, 2025. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
February 24, 2025, 3:18 pm
UN chief ‘gravely concerned’ over Israeli settler violence in West Bank
Secretary-General Guterres tells Human Rights Council of his worries at recent calls to annex the territory as well as other ‘violations’
By Agencies
A diplomat observes the room at the opening of the 57th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, on September 9, 2024. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
February 5, 2025, 10:21 pm
Following US, Israel says it will halt participation in UN Human Rights Council
FM Gideon Sa’ar accuses UNHRC of ‘protecting human rights abusers’ while ‘demonizing’ Israel and ‘propagating antisemitism’
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
US President Donald Trump holds an executive order regarding withdrawing from the United Nations Human Rights Council in the Oval Office of the White House, February 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
February 5, 2025, 1:43 pm
Trump withdraws US from UN Human Rights Council, permanently ends funding to UNRWA
The UN ‘has to get its act together,’ US president says, as he signs executive order calling for review of UNESCO, and UN institutions generally, that cites ‘anti-Israel bias’
By Agencies, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff
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