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Human Rights Council

Type: Organization

Name: Human Rights Council

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 1 reports

*Qatar, Turkey, U.S. Request Urgent U.N. Rights Council Debate on Syria

SPA - Qatar, Turkey, and the United States Friday requested the president of the U.N. Human Rights Council to convene an urgent debate on Syria.â€œIn light of the escalating grave human rights violations and the deteriorating situation in the Syrian Arab ... [Published Saudi Press Agency - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Syria, Qatar, Turkey

First reported 20 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 7 reports

US, Turkey, Qatar seek urgent UN rights debate on Syria

GENEVA (AFP) - The United States, Turkey and Qatar called Friday for an urgent debate on Syria at the UN's top human rights body next week, citing the escalating conflict and the regime's assault on the central town of Qusayr.We ... request the Human ... [Published Dunya News - 12 hours ago]

Entities: Syria, Qatar, Turkey, United Nations

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 1 reports

Schaefer and Groves: Hold UN Experts Accountable

[3]In 2012, Ambassador Susan Rice labeled Falk’s call for a boycott on “businesses that are profiting from the Israeli settlement enterprise” as “irresponsible and unacceptable.… [His] recommendations do nothing to further a peaceful settlement to the ... [Published Heritage Foundation - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Groves (United States), United Nations, Special Rapporteur, Human Rights

First reported 16 hours ago - Updated 16 hours ago - 1 reports

Organizations Demand in Geneva End to Blockade Against Cuba

24 de mayo de 2013, 13:54Geneva, May 24 (Prensa Latina) Non-governmental organizations are calling in this capital for the U.S. blockade against Cuba to be eliminated, and for the Human Rights Council to create a special procedure to investigate the impact ... [Published Prensa Latina - 16 hours ago]

Entities: Blockade, Cuba, Geneva, Organism

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

United Nations

Cambodia To Continue Its Cooperation with UN on Human Rights

Cambodian Senior Minister H.E. Om Yentieng, President of Anti-Corruption Unit, said on May 22 that Cambodia, as a good and an active member of the United Nations (UN), would continue to work with the UN in developing human rights in Cambodia.Speaking ... [Published Agence Kampuchea Presse - May 23 2013]

Entities: Cambodia, United Nations, Human Rights

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Slow progress on free expression in Ecuador one year after U.N. review

Fundamedios - Andean Foundation for Media Observation & Study 23 May 2013Exactly one year ago, on 21 May 2012, Ecuador submitted to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) before the Human Rights Council of the UN, in Geneva, Switzerland. As a result of ... [Published Ifex - May 23 2013]

Entities: Ecuador, Freedom of Expression, Ministry of Justice, Human Rights Council, protest

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

U.N. investigator seeks world moratorium on "killer robots"

Christof Heyns, U.N. special rapporteur on executions, said that unmanned robotic weapons systems with varying degrees of autonomy and deadliness were being tested or used by the United States, Britain and Israel without debate on moraI and legal issues. ... [Published NewsRT.co.uk - May 23 2013]

Entities: Robotics, Christof Heyns, Human Rights Council

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

5/23/2013: NATION: 2012:

India votes against Sri Lanka at the United Nationals Human Rights Council. India-Italy ties put to test over the marines’ issue. ... [Published Hindustan Times - May 23 2013]

Entities: Human Rights Council, Sri Lanka, India

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Calls to Admit Israel to Human Rights Council

Irit Kahn of International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists called upon the United Nations to admit Israel as a member nation to the Council for Human Rights in Geneva.Kahn stated that members of the Palestinian Authority have tried to have Israel ... [Published Israel National News - May 22 2013]

Entities: Human Rights Council, Israel, International Association of Jewish Lawyers and..., Palestinian National Authority, Geneva

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Chairman to request funds from Human Rights Council to fight crime

Chairman of the Commonwealth Caribbean Parliamentary Human Rights Group (CCPHRG) MP Eustace “Teco” LakeST JOHN’S, Antigua – Chairman of the Commonwealth Caribbean Parliamentary Human Rights Group (CCPHRG) MP Eustace “Teco” Lake said he will be pleading ... [Published Antigua Observer - May 22 2013]

Entities: Human Rights Council, Crime, Human Rights, Geneva

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

TNA requests govt. to genuinely implement HRC resolution

The TNA yesterday requested the government to take action to "genuinely implement" the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) resolution on "Promoting reconciliation and accountability in Sri Lanka and to reverse the latter’s current actions pertaining to the ... [Published Sri Lanka Island - May 21 2013]

Entities: Human Rights Council, Sri Lanka, Allegation, Relativity

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 2 reports

U.N. Human Rights Experts: More Transparency and Accountability Required [on Richard Falk]

Recent statements by United Nations Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur Richard Falk rekindled a debate over how such experts should be held accountable when their behavior violates the conduct expected of them. Moreover, the scrutiny elicited by ... [Published Campus Watch - May 21 2013]

Entities: Human Rights, Special Rapporteur, United States

Quotes

"We request the Human Rights Council to hold an urgent debate on the deteriorating situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic, and the recent killings in Al Qusayr" the ambassadors of the three countries wrote in their request to council president Remigiusz Henczel on Friday

US, Turkey, Qatar seek urgent Syria debate [Published MSN New Zealand - 17 hours ago]

"Africa has been totally powerless when it came to dealing with the situation in Mali. West Africa clearly didn't have military or political capacity for it."

Africa: On a human rights mission [Published Mail & Guardian Online - May 24 2013]

"Their deployment may be unacceptable because no adequate system of legal accountability can be devised and because robots should not have the power of life and death over human beings."

U.N. investigator seeks moratorium on 'killer robots' [Published MSN News - May 23 2013]

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*Qatar, Turkey, U.S. Request Urgent U.N. Rights... [Published Saudi Press Agency - 2 hours ago]
Schaefer and Groves: Hold UN Experts Accountable [Published Heritage Foundation - 7 hours ago]
US, Turkey, Qatar seek urgent UN rights debate ... [Published Dunya News - 12 hours ago]
US, Turkey and Qatar call for UN rights debate ... [Published Saudi Gazette - Mid-East - 13 hours ago]
Heavy fighting rages on in Qusair town [Published The Gulf Today - 13 hours ago]
Organizations Demand in Geneva End to Blockade ... [Published Prensa Latina - 16 hours ago]
US, Turkey, Qatar seek urgent Syria debate [Published MSN New Zealand - 17 hours ago]
US, Turkey, Qatar call for UN rights debate on ... [Published Qatar Peninsula - 18 hours ago]
Syrian Arab Republic: US, Turkey, Qatar call fo... [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - 19 hours ago]
Put a Spotlight on African Women’s Reproductive... [Published Human Rights Watch - 20 hours ago]
US, Turkey, Qatar call for UN rights debate on ... [Published Saudi Gazette - 20 hours ago]
Tibet Society submits human rights reports to F... [Published Tibet Relief Fund of the UK - 22 hours ago]
U.N. urges Japan to boost checks for internal r... [Published MAINICHI Daily News - May 24 2013]
ČR fails to deal with segregation of Romani stu... [Published Prague Monitor - May 24 2013]
Africa: On a human rights mission [Published Mail & Guardian Online - May 24 2013]
Vietnam Reduces Sentences of Four Jailed Activists [Published Radio Free Asia - May 24 2013]
U.N. investigator seeks moratorium on 'killer r... [Published MSN News - May 23 2013]
COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD HOLDS SIXT... [Published Noodls - May 23 2013]
Slow progress on free expression in Ecuador one... [Published Ifex - May 23 2013]
Iranian Baha'is face "widespread and entrenched... [Published Bahai World News Service - May 23 2013]
Partners, not pledges, needed to fight HIV [Published CNN - May 23 2013]
U.N. investigator seeks world moratorium on "ki... [Published NewsRT.co.uk - May 23 2013]
Cambodia To Continue Its Cooperation with UN on... [Published Agence Kampuchea Presse - May 23 2013]
U.N. investigator seeks world moratorium on "ki... [Published Reuters - May 23 2013]
Solomon Islands: Report of the Special Rapporte... [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - May 23 2013]
Thailand: Regularization of Crisis of Freedom o... [Published Scoop - May 23 2013]
5/23/2013: NATION: 2012: [Published Hindustan Times - May 23 2013]
Robotics I: Skynet Has NOT Become Self-Aware [Published Industrial Equipment News - May 23 2013]
Little for Kerry to gain from Mideast visit [Published Lebanon Daily Star - May 22 2013]
Sexually confused: LGBT non-discrimination ordi... [Published San Antonio Current - May 22 2013]

Blogs

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The Ongoing Nakba: The continuous forcible disp... [Published Mondoweiss - May 15 2013] (Image: Alternativenews.org) Israeli practices and policies are a combination of apartheid, military occupation, and colonization as a means to ethnically cleanse the territory of historic Palestine from the indigenous Palestinian presence. This Israeli ...
A New Political Regime Post-2010 in Sri Lanka: ... [Published groundviews - May 15 2013] Image courtesy Brisbane Times by Laksiri Jayasuriya , University of Western Australia Introduction The 2010 Sri Lankan Presidential and Parliamentary elections that took place shortly after the end of a debilitating 25 year-old civil war ...
Unlawful Killing of Syrian Women [Published Impunity Watch - May 14 2013] 7543 women including 2454 girls and 257 infants were killed by the Syrian Government’s Armed Forces since the beginning of the Syrian revolution. Unlawful killing of Syrian WomenReport Prepared by Syrian Network for Human Rights SNHR – By our daily ...
B’Tselem report delivers blow to narrative that... [Published Mondoweiss - May 11 2013] Palestinians try to extinguish a fire after an Israeli air strike.(Photo: Mohammed Abed — AFP/Getty Images “Precise” and “surgical”: those were the buzz words mouthed by the Israeli army and its supporters to describe the November air assault on Gaza. ...
State Department: Virulent America, Israel Hate... [Published Breitbart Feed - May 10 2013] The U.S. State Department states that Richard Falk of the U.N. Human Rights Council, cannot be fired even though he has made virulently anti-American and anti-Israel statements. Falk has said that the Boston Marathon bombings were connected to the ...

Audio/Video

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Ambassador Donahoe Delivers Remarks on North Korea [Published US Department of State - YouTube Channel - Mar 29 2013]
UN inquiry says Israel must end settlements [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - Jan 31 2013]

Press Releases

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AJC Calls on UN Human Rights Council to Renew I... [Published PR Newswire - Mar 15 2013]
Committed to Speedy Reform, HM King Mohammed VI... [Published PR Newswire: Policy & Public Interest - Mar 08 2013]