Hezbollah condemned at UN NGO conference
IHEU and the Association for World Education, in association with the Simon Wiesenthal Center, hosted a seminar at the UN…
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Missiles? What missiles? Israel and the UN Human Rights Council
The UN Human Rights Council met in emergency session on 11th August to consider a resolution sponsored by members of…
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Freedom of Expression under threat at the Human Rights Council
The first session of the new UN Human Rights Council got underway on 19th June in Geneva, but despite the…
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UN publishes final submissions to Human Rights Commission
The UN has published IHEU's two final submissions in the final days of the Human Rights Commission (now in the…
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IHEU and 42 other NGOs highlight Darfur with UN Human Rights High Commissioner
IHEU and 42 other NGOs represented at the United Nations have written to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human…
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UN condemns torture by the United States
Reuters reports that the United Nations Committee against Torture has told the United States that secret jails for foreign terrorism…
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IHEU in last-gasp appeal to Human Rights Commission on freedom of expression
With the adoption by the UN General Assembly ealier this month of the resolution creating the new Human Rights Council,…
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IHEU President receives Danish award
The Danish Free Press Society has awarded its newly-instituted Free Press Prize to the Norwegian-Pakistani comedienne and satirist Shabana Rehman…
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in over 300 languages
See http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/navigate/alpha.htm for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in over 300 languages. The Declaration is the statement of fundamental…
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Stop Torture and Genocidal Crimes in Darfur-Sudan
IHEU and 16 other NGOs have written to the UN Commissioner for Human Rights to express serious concern at the…
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IHEU joins the debate on the future of the UN Human Rights Commission
In a joint statement with three other NGOs, IHEU today (27 Sept 2005) urged the UN to recognize the importance…
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