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Election Of Pakistan To Rights Council 'Wrong'
Thursday, 22 May 2008, 8:45 pm | UN Watch
According to a detailed report by UN Watch and Freedom House, "Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bahrain, Gabon and Zambia all failed to show the minimum standards required for election to the council -- yet now all but one was elected," said Hillel Neuer of UN Watch. More >>
Amnesty Urged To Withdraw Invite To Jean Ziegler
Thursday, 17 April 2008, 10:40 am | UN Watch
Amnesty International should reconsider its speaking invitation to Jean Ziegler, a UN official who co-founded the Muammar Qaddafi Human Rights Prize and has supported the regimes of Robert Mugabe, Fidel Castro and other major human rights violators. More >>
Rights Council Elects Jean Ziegler To Expert Post
Thursday, 27 March 2008, 11:28 am | UN Watch
To the sound of cheers, and by an overhwelming majority of 40 out of 47 votes, the UN Human Rights Council today elected Jean Ziegler, the co-founder of the "Muammar Khaddafi Human Rights Prize," as an expert advisor representing the Western world. More >>
Suspension Of Jean Ziegler's UN Nomination Urged
Wednesday, 26 March 2008, 12:14 am | UN Watch
Activists point to Ziegler's long record of support for serial human rights violators including Libya's Khaddafi, Fidel Castro of Cuba, Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, and Ethiopian strongman Colonel Mengistu. More >>
Hillel Neuer elected VP of NGO Human Rights Group
Thursday, 21 February 2008, 10:03 am | UN Watch
Geneva, Feb. 20, 2008 — UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer was elected vice-president of the Geneva-based Special Committee of NGOs on Human Rights, part of the worldwide Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations (CONGO). More >>
France May "Disengage" From UN's Durban II Conf.
Friday, 15 February 2008, 2:52 pm | UN Watch
UN Watch praised French President Nicolas Sarkozy for sending a powerful warning last night to organizers of the UN's "Durban II" racism conference, one that must now be emphasized by other European leaders. More >>
UN Rights Chief Criticized For Praising Cuba
Friday, 15 February 2008, 9:35 am | UN Watch
In a letter sent to High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour, Hillel Neuer, executive director of the Geneva-based human rights monitoring group, urged her to recognize Cuba's consistently negative role at the UN Human Rights Council. More >>
Mbeki: S Africa Will Host 'Durban II' Racism Conf.
Thursday, 14 February 2008, 3:59 pm | UN Watch
The Geneva monitoring organization welcomed today's statement by Sec. of State Condoleeza Rice, that the U.S. will not attend the meeting if it is anti-Semitic. UN Watch called on other states to clarify their red lines. More >>
UN Rights Chief Vs. Endorsement Of Arab Charter
Tuesday, 29 January 2008, 10:25 am | UN Watch
In a letter sent today to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour, UN Watch urged her to clarify a recent endorsement of the Arab Charter of Human Rights, which contains several provisions that promote classically anti-Semitic themes. More >>
UN Watch Lauds Resolution On Burma Repression
Wednesday, 3 October 2007, 12:17 am | UN Watch
The E.U.-authored text was softened several times in order to ensure that countries like China and Russia would join the consensus. The original text of "strongly condemns" was changed to "condemns," and then weakened again to "strongly deplores." More >>
Election of Libya & Iran Taint UN Racism Committee
Tuesday, 28 August 2007, 11:27 am | UN Watch
Libya was elected today to head a UN committee charged with organizing a series of international meetings on racism, leading up to a major world conference in 2009, while Iran was chosen to be on its 20-member governing bureau. "Choosing Libya ... More >>
U.N. Chief Rebuked in Human Rights Council
Thursday, 26 July 2007, 12:10 am | UN Watch
Islamic states call for "streamlining relationship" with Ban Ki-moon, accuse him of "singling out" council measures that single out Israel. More >>
Libya Designated to Head UN Anti-Racism Conference
Friday, 22 June 2007, 1:35 pm | UN Watch
Geneva, June 21, 2007 — Libya today was designated head of an anti-racism panel of the United Nations Human Rights Council, to oversee two years of preparatory meetings leading up to a world conference in 2009. "Choosing Colonel Khaddafi to head ... More >>
Castro and Lukashenko to Celebrate
Tuesday, 19 June 2007, 9:37 am | UN Watch
Geneva, June 18, 2007 - UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer issued the following statement today regarding the Human Rights Council president's text: More >>
Libya Set to Head UN Anti-Racism Conference
Monday, 18 June 2007, 1:26 pm | UN Watch
Libya is the sole candidate for the post of Chair of a United Nations anti-racism conference to be held in Geneva later this month, upsetting human rights groups who recalled the fatal consequences to the Commission on Human Rights when it chose Libya ... More >>
NGOs Urge UN Secretary-General Ban to Intervene
Friday, 15 June 2007, 11:34 am | UN Watch
Geneva, June 14, 2007 - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's stance on Darfur has "dissipated pressure rather than building it," according to an appeal published today by UN Watch and 36 other non-governmental organizations. Based in Geneva, UN Watch represented ... More >>
Bangladesh Must Release UN Expert
Thursday, 7 June 2007, 2:37 pm | UN Watch
Geneva, June 6, 2007 - UN Watch called on UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the head of the Human Rights Council to take action against the Bangladeshi government's harassment of UN human rights expert Sigma Huda, who was refused exit from the country ... More >>
Belarus, Egypt Urged to Release Prisoners
Friday, 18 May 2007, 5:46 pm | UN Watch
Geneva, May 15, 2007 - Belarus and Egypt must release jailed opposition leaders, journalists and bloggers before Thursday's elections for the UN's top human rights body, said UN Watch, a human rights organization in Geneva, Switzerland. In a statement ... More >>
Human Rights Council Concludes Disappointing Term
Saturday, 31 March 2007, 4:02 pm | UN Watch
Geneva, March 30, 2007 — UN Watch expressed disappointment that the UN Human Rights Council concluded its fourth session today without addressing the vast majority of human rights abuses occurring around the world. The Council ignored such serious ... More >>
EU Darfur Draft Falls Short
Thursday, 22 March 2007, 6:45 pm | UN Watch
Geneva, March 21, 2007 — An international coalition of 60 leading non-governmental organizations, including the Save Darfur Coalition, the World Federation of United Nations Associations, the Presbyterian and Anglican churches, and UN Watch, issued ... More >>
