JAKARTA: Indonesia's assumption of the presidency of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is unlikely to ...

If Indonesia’s diplomacy remains entrenched in selective silence, the privilege of presiding over the council will devolve ...

Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the US from a number of UN bodies and setting up a broader review of US funding ...

UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations General Assembly voted Thursday to remove Russia from the Human Rights Council. 93 members were in favor, 24 against and 58 were absent. The Human Rights Council ...

The United Nations Human Rights Council sparked outrage on Wednesday when it announced that two of the seven experts elected to its advisory committee were from Iran and China. Hillel Neuer, Executive ...

The United Nations welcomed two new officials to the advisory committee for its Human Rights Council this week in a vote that did not inspire confidence in the humanitarian body. Iranian diplomat ...

From the wreckage of war, the United Nations was born in 1945. Leaders came together to prevent another world war, but what ...