U.N. Human Rights Council

• 315 children, adults shelter in high school to flee Haiti gang violence

  Classes are out for summer vacation, and classrooms at the high school have been converted into dormitories, where some of the teenagers, children and toddlers sleep.

  World

  Jul 23, 2022
  
• UN to vote on suspending Russia from human rights council over Bucha killings

  The U.N. General Assembly will vote Thursday on whether to suspend Russia from the U.N.'s premier human rights body. The move was initiated by the United States.

  World

  Apr 6, 2022
  
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• U.S. retreat from U.N. Human Rights Council is ‘bad news’: council members

  Diplomats have said the U.S. withdrawal could bolster Cuba, Russia, Egypt and Pakistan, which resist what they see as U.N. interference in sovereign issues.

  Jun 20, 2018
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• U.S. pulls out of UN human rights council, calls it an organization ‘not worthy of its name’

  Officials say Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley will deliver the verdict on the U.N. Human Rights Council in a joint appearance at the State Department on Tuesday.

  Politics

  Jun 19, 2018