International bodies

A coalition of leading human rights groups from around the world have called on UN High Commissioner for Human Rights…

The UN Human Rights Council held a special session on 12 December 2006 to discuss the human rights crisis in…

Human Rights Day is observed by the international community every year on 10 December. It commemorates the day in 1948…

Report on the chaotic second session of the new Human Rights Council In 2005, the UN Commission for Human Rights…

Matt Cherry, secretary of the United Nations Non-Government Organizations (NGO) Committee on Freedom of Religion or Belief and Executive Director…

In a statement to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, IHEU has condemned attempts to stifle legitimate criticism of…

One of the more thankless tasks that the old UN Human Rights Commission set its experts was to report on…

According to Sima Samar, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Sudan, the people there…

On 22 September 2006, the new Lebanese pro-Hezbollah newspaper, Al-Akhbar launched a scurrilous attack on Kamal el Batal, one of…

In collaboration with more than 40 other NGOs, particularly the Association for World Education, IHEU has been pressing the UN…

IHEU and the Association for World Education, in association with the Simon Wiesenthal Center, hosted a seminar at the UN…