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China interrupts UN testimony of ex-political prisoner
Wednesday, 16 March 2011, 10:24 am | UN Watch
The Chinese government today interrupted testimony by one of its most well-known former political prisoners in the plenary of the UN Human Rights Council. The Chinese delegate, supported by Cuba, objected that Dr. Yang Jianli, who spoke on behalf of ... More >>
UN rights chief backs Qaddafi rep
Friday, 11 March 2011, 2:36 pm | UN Watch
GENEVA, March 10 - U.N. rights chief Navi Pillay today rejected growing calls to fire Ms. Najat Al-Hajjaji, a long-time representative of the Qaddafi regime, from her post as the UN Human Rights Council's investigator on human rights violations ... More >>
Syria's Assad seeks UN rights council seat after Qaddafi
Thursday, 10 March 2011, 10:14 am | UN Watch
GENEVA, March 9 - One week after Col. Muammar Qaddafi's regime was suspended from the U.N.'s 47-nation Human Rights Council for "gross and systematic" violations, the Syrian regime of Bashar Assad declared it is running for a seat, in the upcoming ... More >>
Insult to victims: Qaddafi rep
Tuesday, 8 March 2011, 10:40 am | UN Watch
GENEVA, March 7 - With the Libyan regime deploying hired guns to massacre its own people, the UN Human Rights Council was urged today to fire Najat Al-Hajjaji, a long-time mouthpiece of Col. Muammar Qaddafi, from her post as a council investigator on human ... More >>
UN rights chief faulted for prior silence on Libyan abuses
Friday, 4 March 2011, 11:56 am | UN Watch
UN rights chief faulted for prior silence on Libyan abuses For Immediate Release GENEVA, March 3 - UN rights chief Navi Pillay was criticized in the plenary of the UN Human Rghts Council today for allegedly ignoring Libyan human rights violations ... More >>
Report hailing Libya was scheduled for adoptiont
Friday, 4 March 2011, 9:29 am | UN Watch
UN Watch welcomes the U.N. Human Rights Council's announcement, in response to our urgent appeal (see below) , that its current session is canceling consideration of a report lavishly praising the Qaddafi regime's human rights record, which had been ... More >>
Reversal: UN ousts Qaddafi from human rights council
Wednesday, 2 March 2011, 3:30 pm | UN Watch
GENEVA, March 1 - Nine months after shamefully electing the Qaddafi regime to its Human Rights Council, the UN today reversed itself and suspended Libya's membership. Click here for details and comment. More >>
Rights groups urge UN members to suspend Qaddafi
Wednesday, 2 March 2011, 10:44 am | UN Watch
Geneva, March 1- UN Watch, which has led the opposition by rights groups and victims to Libya’s presence on the UN Human Rights Council for the past year, said this afternoon’s vote by the General Assembly was “better late than never,” and ... More >>
Cote D'Ivoire: Ban Calls For Compliance With Arms Embargo
Tuesday, 1 March 2011, 10:01 am | UN Watch
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for full compliance with the arms embargo placed on Côte d'Ivoire, in the wake of reports that Belarus has provided attack helicopters to forces loyal to former president Laurent Gbagbo. More >>
Cypriot Leaders Hold UN-Sponsored Talks On Reunification
Tuesday, 1 March 2011, 9:55 am | UN Watch
Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders today held the first of two top-level meetings scheduled for this week, under United Nations sponsorship, as they intensified their efforts to reunify the Mediterranean island which has been split for almost 50 years More >>
UN: Continued Support for Transition in Egypt
Tuesday, 1 March 2011, 9:52 am | UN Watch
The United Nations stands ready to support Egypt’s political transition, the United Nation’s top political official has said, noting the world body understands that the process must be led by Egyptians. More >>
Report hailing Libya scheduled for adoption in session
Tuesday, 1 March 2011, 9:49 am | UN Watch
GENEVA, February 28, 2011 -- UN Watch, which heads the Global NGO Campaign to Remove Libya from the UN Human Rights Council , today called on US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, EU foreign minister Catherine Ashton and UN rights chief Navi Pillay to ... More >>
UN Watch applauds calls to suspend Libya, dispatch mission
Sunday, 27 February 2011, 1:16 pm | UN Watch
GENEVA, February 25, 2010 -- UN Watch, which heads the Global NGO Campaign to Remove Libya from the UN Human Rights Council , applauded the adoption without a vote of a resolution in today's Special Session of the UN Human Rights Council. The text ... More >>
NGO Campaign to Remove Libya welcomes new EU draft
Friday, 25 February 2011, 12:41 pm | UN Watch
GENEVA, February 24, 2010 - UN Watch, which heads the Global NGO Campaign to Remove Libya from the UN Human Rights Council, welcomed a new EU draft for tomorrow's meeting that calls for suspension of the Qaddafi regime from the world's top human rights ... More >>
70 rights groups urge US & EU to eject Libya
Tuesday, 22 February 2011, 9:30 am | UN Watch
An international coalition of 70 rights groups today urged world powers and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to suspend Libya from its membership on the UN Human Rights Council, and to convene the UN Security Council to protect Libyan civilians from "crimes against ... More >>
24 rights groups urge US and EU to confront Libyan massacres
Monday, 21 February 2011, 1:48 pm | UN Watch
An international coalition of 24 rights groups urged world powers to convene the UN Security Council and the Human Rights Council to protect Libyan civilians from government killings, in a letter sent today to the U.S., the EU and UN Secretary-General ... More >>
'9/11 Truther' Condemned by UN Chief & Obama Administration
Saturday, 5 February 2011, 12:40 pm | UN Watch
Iowa University and Bank of the West Urged to Cancel Sponsorship of '9/11 Truther' Condemned by UN Chief & Obama Administration More >>
UN Chief Urged to Fire Official for Promoting 911 Conspiracy
Tuesday, 25 January 2011, 1:01 pm | UN Watch
*GENEVA, January 20, 2011* - U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon was urged today to fire an official of the world body who endorsed the conspiracy theory that the 9/11 terrorist attacks were orchestrated by the U.S. government and not Al Qaeda terrorists. More >>
U.N. Ivory Coast session must investigate abuses
Friday, 24 December 2010, 9:46 am | UN Watch
GENEVA, December 23, 2010 - In testimony delivered before today's U.N. Human Rights Council emergency session on the Ivory Coast, the Geneva-based human rights organization UN Watch urged the dispatch of an international fact-finding mission, "to conclude ... More >>
24 NGOs Urge U.N. Rights Chief to Attend Oslo Nobel Ceremony
Monday, 13 December 2010, 11:58 am | UN Watch
An international coalition of 24 human rights and non-governmental organizations appealed today to U.N. rights chief Navi Pillay to reverse her decision to skip Friday's Nobel award ceremony for imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. "We urge the High ... More >>
