United Nations Human Rights Council

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International human rights groups criticized a Sri Lankan report Friday on the island's civil war and called for more accountability after the commission cleared the military of key charges.The Sri Lankan government commission, in a 400-page report, concluded that the ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay called on Friday for the international community to take action to protect the civilian population in Syria from "ruthless repression" as the country slides into civil war.More than 4,000 ...

Following the news today of former-Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi's death, the Geneva-based UN Watch issued a press release calling on the United...

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations on Monday named a three-member panel of international experts to investigate human rights violations including possible crimes against humanity since anti-government protests began in Syria in March.Sergio Pinheiro of Brazil will lead the commission of inquiry ...

Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images. Delegates stand up for a minute of silence on the opening day of the 16th session of the United Nations Human...

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Pull one weed out of the rank garden that is the United Nations Human Rights Council, and another quickly grows in its spot.. . The panel recently...

Topic: United Nations Human Rights Council

Taking back globalization

Rights groups criticize Sri Lanka war report

U.N. rights chief calls for action to protect Syrians

Group calls for UN to take back Gaddafi's human rights prize

U.N. names human rights probe into Syria crimes

Anne Bayefsky: The anti-Israel agenda prevails at the UN

Jewish morality and the rules of war

George Jonas: Naive Goldstone's report had only one flaw. It was wrong

Goldstone retreat on Israel leaves a field strewn with casualties

Editorial: Bad company

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