Our delegation, our government, and the American people believe that the UNHRCcan make a contribution to the improvement of the lives of those who suffer under oppressive government.

The U.N. Human Rights Commission has commenced its annual meeting in Geneva. This event has long provoked charges of hypocrisy, affirming every conceivable human right while passing over in polite silence the depredations of many of the world’s bloodiest and most repressive regimes.The majority of U.N. member states...

Participants addressing the role and future of the UN Human Rights Commission criticized the commission's hypocrisy.

This is the year that the world’s most repressive dictatorships have made real progress in their effort to destroy the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, which, when it functions as intended, is one of the truly useful bodies of the United Nations in assisting the victims of repression and tyranny.

On April 29, in the immediate wake of a triple execution and an unprecedented crackdown by the Castro regime, the United Nations Human Rights Commission reelected Cuba to the commission. Does the UN Human Rights Commission retain any credibility? How does the UN Human Rights Commission work under...

The fight against terrorism is no closer to success today than it was a decade ago when, in the wake of the September 11 terror attacks, President George W. Bush declared a Global War on Terrorism.

The United Nations's human rights record has never been good, and it is not getting any better.

Israel is the only UN member state that originated from a UN resolution, the only state that has had its right to exist questioned by another UN resolution, and the only member state that is ineligible for membership in the Security Council and other UN bodies. Only one-tenth of 1...