The United States on Monday boycotted the United Nation’s Human Rights Council over its disproportionate focus on Israel, saying this “long-standing bias” severely jeopardizes the organization’s credibility. Israel is the only country that has its record examined during each of the council’s three annual meetings under a standing agenda item, known as...

The United States will withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) unless the agency undertakes significant reforms, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson wrote in a letter to advocacy groups this week. The letter, which was first reported by Foreign Policy, states that the Trump administration “continues to evaluate the effectiveness” of the council,...

The son of an Iranian opposition leader who has been under house arrest since 2011 has himself been sentenced to six months in prison on charges of distributing anti-government propaganda, Radio Free Europe reported Tuesday. Green Movement leader Mehdi Karroubi ran as a reformist presidential candidate in 2009 against incumbent Mahmoud...

A human rights group has determined that the Syrian government deliberately diverted international aid in order to starve besieged populations, ABC News reported Tuesday. In its new report Access Denied, Physicians for Human Rights accused the Iran-backed regime of President Bashar al-Assad from blocking United Nations access to needy Syrian civilians and...

A dual American-Iranian citizen and his wife have been sentenced to death by an Iranian court after being convicted of founding a “cult” and “holding mixed parties” that involved serving alcohol, the Financial Times reported Sunday. Tehran prosecutor-general Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi said in a statement on Sunday that the case “is related...

An Israeli attorney filed a petition on Monday to charge former Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh with war crimes at the International Criminal Court, accusing him of overseeing the use of human shields during the 2014 Gaza war. Calev Michael Myers filed the petition on behalf of the Israel-Li (Israel to Me) organization,...