United Nations Commission on Human Rights

June 8, 2024 | Bonnie Glick |

UN Secretary General Abuses His Authority

Along with ISIS, al-Qaeda and Boko Haram, Israel will be put on a UN blacklist

November 15, 2021 | Alireza Nader, Benjamin Weinthal

Iranian Professor At US College Complicit In Crimes Against Humanity

Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, Iran’s former ambassador to the UN, is complicit in crimes against humanity by using his position as an Iranian diplomat to cover up the 1988 executions of 5,000 dissidents in...

June 9, 2021 | David May, Michael Levinson

UNHRC Creates Flawed Commission of Inquiry to Investigate Israel

The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) passed a resolution on May 27 creating a Commission of Inquiry (COI) to investigate alleged violations of international law during the recent fighting in Gaza, as well...

March 1, 2021 | Bradley Bowman, David May

The UN Should Protect Human Rights, Not Human Rights Abusers

Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced on Wednesday that the United States will seek membership at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in January 2022 as part of the Biden administration’s...

February 17, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Despots dominate the WHO and the UNHRC

American engagement alone cannot fix UN agencies

June 27, 2018 | Clifford D. May |

Woman of the world

President Ronald Reagan’s 1981 appointment of Jeane Kirkpatrick as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations did not meet with universal approval. Never before had a woman held that position. A...

September 13, 2017 | Clifford D. May |

Fixing the United Nations

The United Nations was created in the wake of World War II by the major Allied nations that had prevailed – at an enormous cost in blood and treasure -- over the Axis powers.  Its foun...

August 17, 2016 | Clifford D. May |

Tracking freedom’s enemies

If I were to ask an intelligent person like you what happened in the 20th century, or the 19th or the 18th, you could probably sum up the most significant developments. But if I asked you what is...

September 14, 2011 | Clifford D. May

The European Caliphate

A refugee from the Muslim world sees it taking shape.

June 21, 2011 | The Rosett Report |

Your UN: Making the World Safe for Anti-Semitism

Usually I’m against the U.S. government spending more money on the United Nations. But after the latest round of UN “human rights” activity, there’s one shovel-ready proje...

June 14, 2011 | National Review Online |

Dollars for Durban II

Back to the U.N.

May 12, 2010 | Pajamas Media

Here Comes the UN’ s Libyan Blights Council

Libya on the United Nations Human Rights Council? That sounds nuts. But this is the UN. By Thursday evening, with the Obama administration apparently AWOL on this outrage, it may be a done deal....

May 7, 2010 | Claudia Rosett Forbes.com

Revaluing Freedom

OSLO -- Too often in recent times Norway has embarrassed itself as a sanctimonious dispenser of devalued Nobel Peace Prizes, having more to do lately with Norway's left-leaning politics than...

February 11, 2010 | |

Don’t Let Iran On The Human Rights Council

While Iran's regime bloodies its dissidents, the nuclear weapons-loving mullahs are seeking a treat for themselves at the United Nations: Iran is running for a seat on the U.N. Human Rights...

September 23, 2009 | FoxNews.com |

Message to the U.N. – Support Democracy Not Dictators

By Dr. Walid Phares As President Obama was addressing the General Assembly of the United Nations, just before Libya's dictator Moammar Kadhafi called for the demise of the...

May 7, 2009 | |

U.S. Seeks To Join A Despots’ Club

Saudi Arabia, Cuba, China, Russia, Cameroon, Djibouti. What do these countries all have in common? Yes, they are all systematic violators of human rights. Some of them, such as China, Cu...

August 6, 2008 | Claudia Rosett The Rosett Report |

Cuba (UN-Libre) in the Spotlight at the UN Human Rights Council

If that sounds promising — as in, maybe the UN is finally zeroing in on Cuba’s gross violations of human rights — think again. The Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council ha...

November 27, 2006 | The American Thinker |

The UN’s Jew-Obsession

Every single day, hundreds of African tribesmen are killed in Darfur by militias acting with the blessing of Sudan's Arab Islamist government. Eac...

June 19, 2005 | |

Confirm Bolton

America needs John Bolton because the U.N. has to change.

May 4, 2005 | Clifford D. May |

Kofi’s Break

Kofi Annan is not a crook. Or, to be more precise, the United Nations Secretary-General has not been convicted of criminal activity. It is possible that the investigations now underway w...