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Chen Xu, Ambassador of the Permanent Representative Mission of the China to the UN Geneva, who is leading China's delegation, addresses his statement, during the U.N. Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group meeting to review China's human rights record, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

Western countries press China on Hong Kong law, minority rights as U.N. body reviews its record

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

Illustration on United Nations' attacks on Israel by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

United Nations goes DEFCON 3 on Israel

By Clifford D. May

Illustration on China's control of the United Nations by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

United Nations’ transnational bureaucrats now do Beijing’s bidding

By Clifford D. May

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko speaks during an awarding ceremony in Minsk, Belarus, Friday, July 2, 2021. Lukashenko said Friday that he has ordered to shut the border with Ukraine, alleging that it has become a conduit for weapons smuggling. (Sergei Shelega/BelTA Pool Photo via AP, File)

U.S. delegate to U.N. signals additional sanctions against Belarus

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Illustration on the U.N. Human Rights Council by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

United Nations Human Rights Council’s blacklist delegitimizes Israel

By Clifford D. May

The Latest: US envoy blasts Venezuela seat on UN agency

Associated Press

FILE - In this June 29, 2018, file photo, Rohingya refugees look out from their camp near a fence during a government-organized media tour to a no-man's land between Myanmar and Bangladesh, near Taungpyolatyar village, Maung Daw, northern Rakhine State, Myanmar. The U.N. Human Rights Council said in a statement on Tuesday, May 14, 2019 that there has been no progress in the crisis over Myanmar’s mostly Muslim Rohingya minority, more than 1 million of whom have fled military “clearance operations” in the northwest Rakhine region. It said those remaining in the country live in displacement camps and in fear. (AP Photo/Min Kyi Thein, File)

UN mission urges financial isolation of Myanmar’s military

Associated Press

Nikki Haley illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Nikki Haley, a woman for our times

By Clifford D. May

FILE - In this Jan. 2, 2018, file photo, United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks to reporters at United Nations headquarters. Haley says the U.S. is withdrawing from UN Human Rights Council, calling it 'not worthy of its name.' (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Nikki Haley blasts U.N. Human Rights Council as ‘cesspool of political bias’ as U.S. withdraws

By Dan Boylan - The Washington Times

British Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations Jonathan Allen, right, listens as American Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks during a Security Council meeting on the situation between Britain and Russia, Wednesday, March 14, 2018, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) ** FILE **

America, Israel should quit ‘sham’ U.N. Human Rights Council

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Freedom House chart to accompany Johnson article of Jan. 25, 2018.

Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, must contend with its bullying neighbors

By Bridget Johnson

Alternative Needed for the UNHRC Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN: U.N. Human Rights Council must be reformed or destroyed

By Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

Smoke and dust rise after an Israeli strike hit Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Adel Hana) ** FILE **

U.N. report on Gaza: Both Israeli and Palestinian groups may be guilty of war crimes

By Aron Heller - Associated Press

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, South African Navi Pillay, addresses the United Nations Human Rights Council at the UN headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, July 23, 2014. Pillay opened an emergency debate in the 47-nation U.N. Human Rights Council with an assessment that around three-quarters of the 650 Palestinians and 31 Israelis killed in the conflict were civilians, and thousands more have been injured. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini)

U.N. Human Rights head accuses Israel of war crimes

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

US to press Sri Lanka again at UN rights council

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON - Associated Press

Israel bars U.N. team from probing settlements

By Amy Teibel - Associated Press

Fayssal al-Hamwi, Syria's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, delivers Feb. 28, 2012, his statement to the debate on Syria during the 19th session of the Human Rights Council at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva. (Associated Press/Keystone)

U.S. slams Syria over U.N. rights meeting walkout

By Frank Jordans - Associated Press

Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Florida Republican, wants Congress to block U.S. funding for any U.N. efforts to give Palestinians a heightened status. (Associated Press)

House bill would cut funds to pro-Palestine U.N. groups

By Jim Abrams - Associated Press

U.N. rights body demands Syria end violence

By John Heilprin - Associated Press

Illustration: Israel and the U.N.

COOPER & BRACKMAN: Course correction on Mideast peace

By Abraham Cooper and Harold Brackman - The Washington Times