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A leading international human rights organization on Thursday urged the Thai government to stop forcing political dissidents who fled to Thailand for safety to return to authoritarian home countries, where they may face torture, persecution or death. In a new report, Human Rights Watch said Thai authorities repeatedly violated international law by expelling the dissidents, many of whom were registered …

JERUSALEM — A leading expert of the United Nations blasted the world body for failing to have its lead official on sexual violence in conflict address Security Council members at a meeting to discuss the hostages held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza on Thursday. Anne Bayefsky, director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust, and president of …

Hungary will vote against a United Nations resolution commemorating the 1995 genocide of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica, the foreign minister said on Wednesday, arguing that it would inflame tensions in the Balkan country and the surrounding region. Péter Szijjártó was hosting Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik in the Hungarian capital of Budapest, where Szijjártó accused the U.N., as well as …

Israeli leaders claim photos and video show Hamas terrorists inside the United Nations Relief & Works Agency. The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) released on Tuesday drone footage and photos captured above the UNRWA compound in the Gaza city of Rafah. “Today, we revealed unusual footage of armed terrorists next to UN vehicles, which we located a few days ago, and …

Israel for the first time has released its estimated civilian death toll in Gaza, saying that 16,000 have been killed in the war that began on Oct. 7 instead of the approximately 35,000 that the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas’ Ministry of Health is claiming. Israel government spokesperson Avi Hyman tells Fox News that for 221 days, his country has been”condemned …

More than 300 Syrian refugees headed back home to Syria in a convoy on Tuesday, leaving two remote northeastern towns in crisis-stricken Lebanon where anti-refugee sentiment has been surging in recent months. Lebanese officials have long urged the international community to either resettle the refugees in other countries or help them return to Syria. Over the past months, leading Lebanese …

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., joined “Fox & Friends” Tuesday to call out the “gullible” Biden administration and United Nations for believing false casualty figures out of Gaza. Cotton reacted to a new U.N. report that lowered the death toll for civilian casualties in Gaza by nearly half, explaining that Hamas has been exaggerating the death toll for months in the …

JERUSALEM – In a dramatic shift, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) hasrevised its data pertaining to the number of Palestiniancasualties in the seven-month-old Gaza war, reducing almost by half the number of women and children it previously said were killed in the hostilities between Israel and the Iranian-backed terror group Hamas. According to an …

The Iraqi government has requested that the United Nations end a mission set up to promote governance and human rights reforms in the country by the end of 2025, the latest in a series of international bodies operating in the nation that Iraq has sought to wind down. The letter sent Wednesday by Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani to U.N. …

Two universities have decided to rescind United Nations Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield’s commencement invitations because of student and faculty opposition to the Israel-Hamas war. Xavier University of Louisiana, a Catholic HBCU, said the “regrettable” decision was made in coordination with Thomas-Greenfield’s team to avoid commencement disruptions. “In recent days, we have heard the voices of a number of students and others …