Human Rights

U.S. Ambassador Grenell Rebukes UNHRC

Declaring the United Nations Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) policy toward Israel to be anti-Semitic, the United States Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell denounced the council’s “singular, obsessive focus” on the Jewish State in a speech he gave Monday in Geneva. Grenell’s speech was part of a rally organized by UN...

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A United Nations envoy has condemned the terrorist group Hamas, which exercises complete political and military control over the Gaza Strip, for the use of violence against protesters and journalists, The Times of Israel reported Sunday. As protests against Hamas for high prices have continued since last week, the terror...

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Women's Rights in Iran

The Islamic Republic of Iran, one of the worst human rights abusers in the world and top state sponsor of international terrorism, has been appointed a seat on the United Nations’ Women’s Rights Committee, Hillel Neuer of the watchdog group UN Watch reported Wednesday. Neuer described the appointment as sending...

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A prominent Iranian human rights lawyer has been sentenced to an extra 10 years in jail on top of the five-year term she is already serving for defending protesters against the Islamic Republic’s mandatory hijab laws, the BBC reported Monday. Nasrin Sotoudeh, an award-winning women’s rights activist, was arrest last...

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Investigators working for the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism (IIIM), an organization established by the United Nations to probe charges of war crimes committed in Syria since 2011 over the course of its bloody civil war, say that they are getting closer to bringing members of the regime of Bashar...

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In an explosive report released last week, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Iran, Javaid Rehman, blasted the Islamic Republic for continuing to execute children in defiance of international law. Records show that at least 61 children have been executed by the regime since 2008. Girls as young as 9-years-old...

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