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Eli Sharabi asks UN Human Rights Council to 'name these crimes,' recognize hostage abuse as torture

“I have chosen the road of justice, beyond politics and grounded in our shared humanity,” he said. “This council must recognize the torture, demand criminal investigations, and confront the terror."

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
Eli Sharabi, a former hostage, holds a photograph of himself during his release by Hamas as he the United Nations Security Council in New York City, US, March 20, 2025
Internally displaced people (IDPs) are seen outside their tent at Al-Farsi displacement camp in Ras Imran on the outskirts of Al-Buraiqah district in southwest Aden in southern Yemen on September 17, 2026.

More Yemenis expected to flee from upsurge in fighting, UN says

A UNHCR response plan for Yemen was less than 20% funded before the renewed violence caused a surge in needs, a statement said.

|ByREUTERS
Police officers stand guard as Palestinians protest outside the Prime Minister's office, calling on the government to fulfil demands related to prisoners and injured people, in Ramallah, the West Bank, May 31, 2026

PA must end torture, arbitrary detention of Palestinians in West Bank, UN rights office demands

Individuals, including children, are being held by the PA security force despite court orders for their release, the UN office confirmed.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
DISPLACED PEOPLE ride on an animal-drawn cart, following Rapid Support Forces attacks on the Zamzam displacement camp, in the town of Tawila, North Darfur, Sudan, earlier this month. Zamzam, Sudan’s largest refugee camp, was bombarded by the RSF for months, with at least 300 killed between Zamzam an

UN Human Rights Council orders urgent inquiry into escalating RSF violence in Sudan

"These horrors must not be repeated," Britain’s Human Rights Ambassador Eleanor Sanders told the body.

|ByREUTERS

Iran’s FM in Geneva for UN, ICRC meetings

Iran, which backs Hamas and supported the October 7 massacre in Israel by Hamas, now says that it wants to see political efforts to end the “Gaza crisis.”

FEBRUARY 26, 2024BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian speaks during a news conference in Tehran, Iran, March 19, 2023.

ICJ vs ICC: Why Israel defends itself against Gaza genocide claim - analysis

Israel is still taking this position of ignoring and denying jurisdiction with the ICC and with the UN Human Rights Council probes.

JANUARY 2, 2024ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
General view of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands December 11, 2019.

Taking hostages is a war crime - opinion

October 7 should prove too flagrant to be ignored by the body that is supposed to be the world’s watchdog on protecting and advancing human rights.

DECEMBER 5, 2023ByNEVILLE TELLER
RELATIVES OF hostages hold a news conference in Tel Aviv last week

UN: Israel's Gaza evacuation order could be a 'crime against humanity'

The term "forcible transfer" describes the forced relocation of civilian populations and it is a crime against humanity punishable by the ICC.

OCTOBER 17, 2023ByREUTERS
Palestinians with dual citizenship gather outside Rafah border crossing with Egypt in the hope of getting permission to leave Gaza, amid the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip October 16, 2023

UNHRC fails in addressing human rights - opinion

Contributing to the UNHRC’s ineffectiveness is the institution’s configuration and the criteria it applies when determining how and which countries are selected.

JULY 26, 2023ByANDREW LOEWY
UN HIGH Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk attends a meeting of the Human Rights Council, in Geneva, earlier this year.

UN rapporteur, who appeared on Hezbollah-affiliated channel, must resign - opinion

Albanese’s antisemitic statements do not deviate far from the antisemitic groups she associates with.

APRIL 23, 2023ByJORDAN COPE
UN SPECIAL rapporteur Francesca Albanese is interviewed on Al Mayadeen.

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.

The top ten worst antisemitic incidents of 2022 - SWC

In a year filled with antisemitic rhetoric and attacks, the Shimon Wiesenthal Center ranked their ten most prominent antisemitic incidents of 2022.

DECEMBER 30, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Then US-president elect Donald Trump and musician Kanye West pose for media at Trump Tower in Manhattan, New York City, US, December 13, 2016.

US pushes UN not to update 'threatening" Israeli settlement blacklist

The Biden administration opposes Israeli settlement activity but has argued against the UN's anti-Israel bias at the same time.

DECEMBER 10, 2022ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
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.

UNHRC votes to set up investigation into Iran protests

The UN Human Rights Council has decided to establish an "international fact-finding mission" regarding Iran's suppression of mass protests.

NOVEMBER 24, 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.