UN rights body holds emergency session on Iran’s protest crackdown

January 23, 2026 3:33 PM

UN rights body holds emergency session on Iran’s protest crackdown

The U.N. Human Rights Council will hold an emergency session on Friday to discuss the "alarming violence" used in Iran against protesters, while a group of states will call on United Nations' investigators to document alleged abuses for future trials. Rights groups say thousands, including bystanders, were killed during the unrest, which represented the biggest challenge to Iran's clerical government since 2022. At least 50 countries backed the call for a special session of the U.N. Human Righ...

UN probing reported mass grave on Libya-Tunisia border

July 9, 2024 6:00 PM

UN probing reported mass grave on Libya-Tunisia border

The U.N. human rights chief said on Tuesday that his office was following up on reports of a mass grave in the desert along the Libya-Tunisia border, after the bodies of at least 65 migrants were found at another site earlier this year. In a speech, Volker Turk denounced widespread violations against migrants and refugees in Libya, which straddes a dangerous transit route that runs through the Sahara Desert and across the southern Mediterranean. Abuses against migrants were being "perpetrated ...