UN Human Rights Council

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…

The UN Human Rights Council met in emergency session on 11th August to consider a resolution sponsored by members of…

The first session of the new UN Human Rights Council got underway on 19th June in Geneva, but despite the…

The UN has published IHEU's two final submissions in the final days of the Human Rights Commission (now in the…

IHEU and 42 other NGOs represented at the United Nations have written to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human…

Reuters reports that the United Nations Committee against Torture has told the United States that secret jails for foreign terrorism…

With the adoption by the UN General Assembly ealier this month of the resolution creating the new Human Rights Council,…

The Danish Free Press Society has awarded its newly-instituted Free Press Prize to the Norwegian-Pakistani comedienne and satirist Shabana Rehman…