UN Human Rights Council

The report (below) on the fourth session of the Human Rights Council that ended on 30 March concentrates on two…

The fourth session of the new Human Rights Council was held in Geneva from 12 to 30 March 2007, but…

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jody Williams, who led a UN Human Rights Council mission to Darfur but whose team was…

The World Health Organisation now estimates that some 130 million women and girls, mainly in Africa, have been subjected to…

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…

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

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

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…