A major point of contention is the unprecedented decision by the United States to boycott its human rights review.
GENEVA (AN) — The U.N. Human Rights Council is grappling with significant financial and political challenges as it prepares for its 60th session next week.
A system-wide budgetary crisis, largely owing to the Trump administration's severe reductions in U.S. funding for the U.N. system, has forced the session to be shorter than usual, a situation that has drawn concern from both within the U.N. and from non-governmental organizations.
Each U.N. member nation is obliged to have its human rights record examined approximately every four and a half years.
The court's advisory opinion stems from a sustained campaign led by Vanuatu and supported by 130 U.N. member nations.
The head of the U.N. Human Rights Council pushed back against U.S. sanctions on a council-appointed investigator.
A human rights group and journalists question Beijing's use of 'Chinese government-organized NGOs' at the U.N.
Villagers who survived 'lost everything 'in the blink of an eye' and now sleep outside, without food, in urgent need of aid.
The incident in Bulgaria involving the E.C. president's plane was quickly framed as a deliberate act of hybrid warfare.
The court's preliminary hearing will focus on whether the case is admissible under Swiss law, in a potential precedent.
Nations and organizations are watching to see if the legal foundation for the administration's trade deals will hold.
