8 September 10 - From InfoSud: Speaking to reporters in Geneva on Tuesday (September 8), the first US Ambassador to the UN Human Rights Council, Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe, said a major US priority for the September Council session will be to raise the profile of freedom of association as a fundamental human (...) Read

7 September 10 - From the Washington Post: The U.S. government, which has long scrutinized other countries’ human rights records, has turned its gaze inward - evaluating its own performance in a largely upbeat report to the United Nations. Read

6 September 10 - From OCHA: The United Nations and its partners are increasingly concerned about the humanitarian situation in flood-torn Pakistan’s south-western province of Balochistan, and are working to step up their activities there. Read

1 September 10 - From UN News: The United Nations peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has expressed deep concern after the apparent abduction of a human rights defender who had spoken out against alleged rights violations by members of the country’s (...) Read

30 August 10 - Human rights groups are demanding an investigation into the UN’s failure to prevent a raid by armed groups who systematically gang raped 200 women in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) late last month. Read

28 August 10 - From UNOG: The international, independent fact-finding mission of high-level experts appointed by the President of the Human Rights Council to inquire into the Gaza flotilla incident has concluded a one-week visit to Turkey. Read

26 August 10 - From US Mission, Geneva: On August 20, the United States submitted to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights a report on the U.S. human rights record, in accordance with the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) (...) Read

25 August 10 - From VOA News: U.N. officials say the Israeli government is blocking them from speaking to Israeli soldiers about the country’s raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. Read

24 August 10 - From OHCHR: The international independent fact-finding mission of high-level experts appointed by the President of the Human Rights Council to inquire into the Gaza flotilla incident on Sunday began a two-week visit to Turkey (22-29 August) and Jordan (29 August – 4 September) to (...) Read

24 August 10 - From the Associated Press: The Obama administration has told the United Nations that America’s human rights record is less than perfect but stressed that the U.S. political system has built-in safeguards that promote improvements. Read