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By Colum Lynch – Foreign Policy Zeid Ra’ad Hussein worries the global retreat from human rights makes his job untenable. The United Nations’ top human rights advocate told his staff that he [...]

UN 10th session of the Forum on Minority Issues Researcher and rights activist, Mina Thabet, is the director for minorities and marginalized groups at the Egyptian Commission for Rights and [...]

By Gabrielle Desarzens – World Watch Monitor – The UN must urgently put in place measures to hold to account jihadists who have committed atrocities against minorities in Iraq and [...]

By Nick Cumming-Bruce – The New York Times – Islamic State forces have committed genocide and other war crimes in a continuing effort to exterminate the Yazidi religious minority in [...]