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U.N. Human Rights Council session in Geneva

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk (3rd from L) addresses Israel's recent airstrike on Qatar's capital Doha during a U.N. Human Rights Council session in Geneva on Sept. 16, 2025.

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U.N. Human Rights Council session in Geneva

A meeting of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva on April 3, 2025, discusses the human rights situation in North Korea. The council later passed a resolution urging North Korea to improve its rights situation and stop its involvement in conflicts abroad, using a phrase that apparently references its participation in Russia's war against Ukraine.

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U.N. Human Rights Council working group session

Jo Chol Su (2nd from R), North Korea's ambassador to the U.N. Geneva Office, speaks at a working group session of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva on Nov. 13, 2024.

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U.N. Human Rights Council session in Geneva

Jo Chol Su (front, C), ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Permanent Representative of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the United Nations Office at Geneva, attends a working group session of the U.N. Human Rights Council on the human rights situation in North Korea on Nov. 7, 2024.

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U.N. Human Rights Council session in Geneva

A working group meeting of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva on Nov. 7, 2024, discusses the human rights situation in North Korea.

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U.N. Human Rights Council session in Geneva

Akimasa Nihongi, an alleged victim of sexual abuse by late J-pop mogul Johnny Kitagawa, speaks at an event on Japan's business and human rights environment in Geneva on June 26, 2024, on the sidelines of a U.N. Human Rights Council session discussing the issue.

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U.N. Human Rights Council session in Geneva

A video statement by Akimasa Nihongi, an alleged victim of sexual abuse by late J-pop mogul Johnny Kitagawa, is shown during a U.N. Human Rights Council session in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 26, 2024.

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U.N. Security Council meeting on North Korea

The U.N. Security Council holds a meeting at the U.N. headquarters in New York on June 12, 2024, on the human rights situation in North Korea.

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U.N. Human Rights Council voting

A delegate casts her country's vote for the candidates vying for United Nations Human Rights Council seats during a General Assembly session at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Oct. 10, 2023.

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U.N. Human Rights Council voting

An election of members to the United Nations Human Rights Council is held at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Oct. 10, 2023.

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Japanese representative at UNHRC meeting

Takahiro Shiota, a minister-counsellor of the Permanent Mission of Japan to the International Organizations in Geneva, speaks at a U.N. Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva on Sept. 18, 2023, after Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki delivered a speech at the session and expressed his opposition to a plan to relocate a U.S. military base within the southern Japan prefecture.

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Okinawa gov. at UNHRC meeting

Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki speaks during a U.N. Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, on Sept. 18, 2023.

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Okinawa gov. at UNHRC meeting

Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki attends a U.N. Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, on Sept. 18, 2023.

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Okinawa gov. at UNHRC meeting

Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki speaks during a U.N. Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, on Sept. 18, 2023.

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Okinawa gov. to speak at UNHRC meeting

Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki meets the press at Naha airport in the southern Japanese island prefecture on Sept. 17, 2023, before heading for Geneva to deliver a speech at a U.N. Human Rights Council meeting.

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Okinawa gov. to speak at UNHRC meeting

Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki (C) meets the press at Naha airport in the southern Japanese island prefecture on Sept. 17, 2023, before heading for Geneva to deliver a speech at a U.N. Human Rights Council meeting.

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U.N. meeting over N. Korea's human rights situation

The U.N. Security Council holds an open meeting at U.N. headquarters in New York on Aug. 17, 2023, to discuss North Korea's human rights situation.

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Okinawa governor leaves for U.N. to court world opinion over base plan

NAHA, Japan, Sept. 19 Kyodo - Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga speaks with reporters at Naha Airport in the southern Japanese prefecture on Sept. 19, 2015, before his departure for Switzerland to deliver a speech at the U.N. Human Rights Council. Onaga will state Okinawa's opposition to the building of a new U.S. military base in the prefecture.

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China against taking up N. Korean human rights issue at UNSC

NEW YORK, United States - China's United Nations Ambassador Liu Jieyi speaks to the U.N. Security Council on Dec. 22, 2014, in New York. China and Russia voted against taking up the North Korean human rights issue at the Security Council.

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U.N. Security Council debates N. Korea human rights

NEW YORK, United States - Delegates to the U.N. Security Council vote by a show of hands in New York on Dec. 22, 2014. The Security Council discussed human rights conditions in North Korea for the first time after voting to include the issue in its agenda.

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U.N. Security Council debates N. Korean human rights issue

NEW YORK, United States - Ivan Simonovic (C), U.N. assistant secretary general for human rights, reports on the North Korean human rights issue to the U.N. Security Council in New York on Dec. 22, 2014. The Security Council discussed human rights conditions in North Korea for the first time after voting to include the issue in its agenda.

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Motion adopted to send N. Korea rights issue to ICC

NEW YORK, United States - Yoshifumi Okamura, a deputy Japanese ambassador, responds to reporters at the U.N. headquarters in New York, the United States, on Dec. 18, 2014, as the U.N. General Assembly formally endorsed a resolution slamming North Korea's human rights record and urging for the first time that the Security Council consider taking the issue to the International Criminal Court.

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U.N. chief urges N. Korea to listen to calls on human rights

NEW YORK, United States - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon attends a press conference at U.N. headquarters in New York, the United States, on Dec. 17, 2014. Ban urged North Korea to respond to international calls for the protection of human rights ahead of an expected meeting of the Security Council to discuss the country's human rights situation the following week.

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Japan HS awarded at Model U.N. conference in NY

NEW YORK, United States - Ayana Takasa (L) and Nae Itagaki, students at Shibuya Kyouiku Gakuen Makuhari Senior High School in Chiba, pose for photos at the U.N. Headquarters in New York on May 17, 2014, after the school received the highest award in the U.N. Human Rights Council category of the Global Classrooms Model U.N. conference, modeled after the U.N. conference.

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Abductee kin Iizuka meets press in Geneva

GENEVA, Switzerland - Shigeo Iizuka, representative of the Association of the Families of Victims Kidnapped by North Korea, responds to questions from reporters in Geneva, Switzerland after attending a session of the U.N. Human Rights Council on March 17, 2014.

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Brother of woman abducted to N. Korea

GENEVA, Switzerland - Shigeo Iizuka, the head of a group consisting of the families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea decades ago, speaks at a session of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva on March 17, 2014. Iizuka's sister, Yaeko Taguchi, was abducted in 1978 at age 22.

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U.S. envoy on N. Korea human rights meets press

WASHINGTON, United States - Robert King, U.S. special envoy for North Korean human rights issues, speaks at a press conference in Washington on March 14, 2014. King suggested it would be difficult to take up North Korea human rights issues as a formal agenda item at the U.N. Security Council due to other pressing matters such as the situation in Ukraine.

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U.S. to seek U.N. resolution on N. Korean rights violations

WASHINGTON, United States - Uzra Zeya, acting assistant secretary at the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Washington on Feb. 27, 2014. Zeya indicated Washington's intention to seek a strong U.N. Human Rights Council resolution against North Korea.

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Protest against China

NEW YORK, United States - Human rights activists stage a mock enactment of violence against Tibetans by Chinese authorities in front of the United Nations headquarters in New York on Nov. 12, 2013, to protest China's inclusion on the U.N. Human Rights Council.

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China activist at U.N.

NEW YORK, United States - Chinese civil rights activist Chen Guangcheng speaks at the United Nations in New York on Nov. 4, 2013. He made an appeal that China should not be elected to the Human Rights Council at a vote in the General Assembly later in the month.

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U.N. panel on human rights in N. Korea

GENEVA, Switzerland - Michael Kirby, head of the Commission of Inquiry that was established by the U.N. Human Rights Council, delivers an interim report on the panel's probe into the human rights situations in North Korea during a meeting of the council in Geneva on Sept. 17, 2013.

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S. Korean abductee now in 3rd country

SEOUL, South Korea - Choe Sung Ryong, head of the Abductees' Family Union, speaks at a hearing on the human rights situation in North Korea by the U.N. Human Rights Council in Seoul on Aug. 23, 2013, showing a photo of Jeon Uk Pyo, a South Korean fisherman abducted by North Korea while at sea in 1972. Choe said that Jeon fled the North earlier in August and is currently in a third country under the protection of the South Korean government.

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Kin of possible N. Korea abduction victim seeks U.N. help

GENEVA, Switzerland - Takashi Fujita, younger brother of a Japanese man possibly abducted by North Korea, holds posters bearing a picture of his brother Susumu as well as those of about 470 possible abductees, in front of the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva on July 12, 2012. The younger Fujita attended a meeting of a U.N. Human Rights Council panel earlier the same day, calling for the world body's cooperation in resolving the issue.

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Abductee's kin attends U.N. meeting in Geneva

GENEVA, Switzerland - Teruaki Masumoto, secretary general of the Association of the Families of Victims Kidnapped by North Korea, speaks to reporters at the U.N. Office at Geneva on Dec. 7, 2009. Masumoto, who sat in on a U.N. Human Rights Council meeting there to review the rights situation in North Korea, expressed dissatisfaction with the lack of progress on the issue of North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals, including his sister.

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UNSC discusses N. Korea's human rights situation

Japan's U.N. Ambassador Motohide Yoshikawa (R in front row) makes statements at a Security Council meeting on the human rights situation in North Korea at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Dec. 10, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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UNSC discusses N. Korea's human rights situation

Photo shows two defectors from North Korea, who sat in a U.N. Security Council meeting on the human rights situation in the North at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Dec. 10, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.S. envoy "hopeful" Security Council take up human rights in N. Korea

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power speaks at a press conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Dec. 1, 2015. "We are still hopeful that we will be able to schedule a meeting but we just don't have anything finalized at this time," Power said of the possibility of a meeting on the human rights situation in North Korea at the Security Council in December. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Relatives of abductees call on North Korea for swift return

Takuya Yokota of Japan, a younger brother of Megumi Yokota who was abducted by North Korean agents in 1977 at age 13, speaks during an event organized by Human Rights Watch in Geneva on Sept. 21, 2015. Family members of other abductees from Japan, South Korea and Thailand also took part in the event on the sidelines of the regular session of the U.N. Human Rights Council. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.N. rapporteur on N. Korea's human rights issues speaks in Tokyo

Marzuki Darusman, U.N. special rapporteur on the human rights situation in North Korea, speaks to Kyodo News during an interview in Tokyo on Jan. 23, 2015. Darusman said family members of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea decades ago may testify at the U.N. Security Council over the abduction issue. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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North Korea slams U.N. Human Rights Council, threatens boycott

Photo taken in August 2015 shows North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Su Yong (C) attending a regional security forum meeting of ASEAN ministers in Kuala Lumpur. Ri blasted the U.N. Human Rights Council at its regular session on March 1, 2016 for increasingly politicizing North Korea's rights record, threatening to boycott sessions and defy resolutions. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ceremony held for East Timor's new Human Rights Avenue

DILI, East Timor - A ceremony to name part of Dili's main thoroughfare Human Rights Avenue is held in the East Timor capital on Dec. 10. Attending the ceremony were (L to R) Jose Ramos-Horta, vice president of the National Council of Timorese Resistance (CNRT), Bishop Carlos Belo, CNRT leader Xanana Gusmao and U.N. Transitional Administration in East Timor administrator Sergio Vieira de Mello.

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China against taking up N. Korean human rights issue at UNSC

NEW YORK, United States - China's United Nations Ambassador Liu Jieyi speaks to the U.N. Security Council on Dec. 22, 2014, in New York. China and Russia voted against taking up the North Korean human rights issue at the Security Council. (Kyodo)

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U.N. Security Council debates N. Korean human rights issue

NEW YORK, United States - Ivan Simonovic (C), U.N. assistant secretary general for human rights, reports on the North Korean human rights issue to the U.N. Security Council in New York on Dec. 22, 2014. The Security Council discussed human rights conditions in North Korea for the first time after voting to include the issue in its agenda. (Kyodo)

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U.N. special rapporteur Quintana

Tomas Ojea Quintana, United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in North Korea, speaks at a press conference in Geneva on March 9, 2020, after a session of the U.N. Human Rights Council. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.N. Human Rights Council meeting begins in Geneva

The U.N. Human Rights Council holds its first session this year in Geneva, Switzerland, on Feb. 24, 2020 (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Comfort women issue taken up at U.N. session in Geneva

Junichi Ihara, Japanese ambassador to the international organizations in Geneva, speaks at a press conference in Geneva on Feb. 26, 2018 following the issuance of a statement during a U.N. Human Rights Council session by South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung Wha on the issue of women forced into Japan's wartime military brothels. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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S. Korean minister on "comfort women" deal with Japan

South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung Wha criticizes a 2015 bilateral deal with Japan on the issue of women forced into Japan's wartime military brothels in her speech during a session of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, on Feb. 26, 2018 (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Okinawa activist blasts Japan gov't "oppression" at U.N.

Hiroji Yamashiro, a prominent activist in Okinawa, meets with reporters in Geneva on June 15, 2017, after addressing a U.N. Human Rights Council meeting. Yamashiro, who was detained for five months for what he and his supporters call minor offenses during a protest against U.S. military bases, said the government has committed "clear human rights violations" against activists in the southern Japan island prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, expert trade barbs over freedom of expression at U.N. body

Junichi Ihara, Japan's ambassador to international organizations in Geneva, addresses the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva on June 12, 2017, aiming to wipe away concerns over Japan's press independence and contentious secrecy law. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, expert trade barbs over freedom of expression at U.N. body

David Kaye, the U.N. special rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression, shows concerns over Japan's press independence, secrecy law and textbook screening system at the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva on June 12, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo