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Sudan reneges on UN Darfur mission
Thursday, 15 February 2007, 10:19 am | UN Watch
Sudan reneges on UN Darfur mission Geneva, Feb. 14, 2007 — UN Watch today urged UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour to condemn the Sudanese government for reneging on an earlier agreement to allow ... More >>
NGOs Urge UN to Condemn Iran’s Holocaust Denials
Monday, 29 January 2007, 10:08 am | UN Watch
Geneva, January 26, 2007 — A group of human rights organizations today called on UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and other UN officials to confront Iran's campaign of Holocaust denial when the UN marks the genocide of Europe's Jews this coming Monday ... More >>
UN Watch Urges Focus On Human Rights
Tuesday, 10 October 2006, 9:34 am | UN Watch
UN Watch Urges New UN Secretary-General to Speak Out on Human Rights Geneva, Oct. 9, 2006 — The UN Security Council has recommended South Korea's foreign minister Ban Ki-Moon to be the UN Secretary-General to succeed Kofi Annan. UN Watch, a Geneva-based ... More >>
UN Human Rights Council Debates Violations
Thursday, 28 September 2006, 8:30 am | UN Watch
Geneva, Sept. 27, 2006 — Today the UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva debated reports delivered by its human rights envoys for North Korea, Sudan and Belarus, three of the world's most repressive regimes. UN Watch, a Geneva-based non-governmental ... More >>
Campaign to Expel Sudan from UN for Darfur Abuses
Wednesday, 30 August 2006, 9:44 am | UN Watch
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Geneva, August 29, 2006 – With increasingly alarming news coming out of the Darfur region of Sudan, UN Watch today launched an urgent global campaign calling on the UN Security Council and General Assembly to suspend and eventually ... More >>
Human Rights Session on Lebanon Violates Charter
Wednesday, 9 August 2006, 10:10 am | UN Watch
UN Watch expressed grave concern over today's move by Arab and Islamic countries to urgently convene the UN's top human rights body regarding alleged "gross human rights violations by Israel in Lebanon." The sponsors dominate the large African ... More >>
U.N. Racism Panel Targets Israel
Friday, 4 August 2006, 10:14 am | UN Watch
UN Watch today condemned the U.N.'s racism panel for suspending its work to hold a special session on "the humanitarian crisis in Lebanon." Not only is the issue completely outside the mandate of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination ... More >>