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Yazidi and Christian Leaders to Unite in Geneva
Wednesday, 20 August 2014, 12:34 pm | UN Watch
Breen Tahseen (photo above), an Iraqi diplomat whose father, Prince Tahseen Saeed Bek, is the leader of the Yazidi people, will join together with leaders from the Iraqi Christian community at a rally today in Geneva calling for the UN Human Rights ... More >>
Human Rights Activists Urge UN to Act Against Iraq Massacres
Thursday, 14 August 2014, 3:06 pm | UN Watch
GENEVA, Aug. 13, 2014 – A coalition of 22 MPs and human rights activists today launched a global campaign, spearheaded by the Geneva-based human rights group UN Watch, urging UN rights chief Navi Pillay to lead the call for an emergency session ... More >>
NGO William Schabas must recuse himself from UN Gaza inquiry
Tuesday, 12 August 2014, 3:40 pm | UN Watch
A Geneva-based human rights group called on William Schabas to recuse himself from the UN’s new Gaza inquiry, saying that he is legally disqualified by prior statements expressing his wish to see Prime Minister Netanyahu and former President Shimon Peres ... More >>
NGO urges UN to condemn ‘global epidemic’ of anti-Semitism
Friday, 25 July 2014, 3:34 pm | UN Watch
French riot police officers face rioters in Sarcelles, a suburb north of Paris, on July 20, 2014. More >>
NGO urges UN to condemn anti-Semitic incidents
Tuesday, 22 July 2014, 11:30 am | UN Watch
GENEVA: Geneva-based human rights group UN Watch today called on UN leaders to condemn what it called a “global epidemic” of anti-Semitic attacks, spiraling from Paris to Ankara, in wake of the Israeli army’s Gaza operation to stop rocket fire against ... More >>
Rights Group Welcomes 'Landmark' UN Vote Creating Inquiry
Tuesday, 1 July 2014, 11:47 am | UN Watch
GENEVA– Geneva-based human rights group UN Watch welcomed the Human Rights Council's "landmark" creation of a commission of inquiry into human rights abuses in Eritrea, in a resolution that was adopted by consensus today at the 47-nation ... More >>
UN Watch Honors Top Canadian Minister for ‘Moral Courage’
Saturday, 24 May 2014, 12:16 pm | UN Watch
GENEVA, May 23, 2014 – Geneva-based human rights group UN Watch presented its annual Moral Courage Award on Thursday to Canadian cabinet minister Jason Kenney, one of the country’s most influential national figures, a decision that drew strong ... More >>
Iranian Dissident Wins Geneva Human Rights Prize
Friday, 16 May 2014, 3:10 pm | UN Watch
Geneva-based human rights group UN Watch announced today that it will be awarding its prestigious annual human rights prize next week to Iranian dissident and best-selling author Marina Nemat, now living in Canada, who was jailed and tortured as a political ... More >>
Another outrageous UN appointment
Saturday, 29 March 2014, 11:47 am | UN Watch
GENEVA, 28 March, 2014— Bowing to new pressure from the powerful Arab Group in the race to replace controversial official Richard Falk, the president of the U.N. Human Rights Council has decided to ignore the vetting committee’s official choice ... More >>
Clash at UN Assembly
Saturday, 8 March 2014, 11:06 am | UN Watch
GENEVA, March 7, 2014 - Venezuela's representative to the UN Human Rights Council vociferously objected today when the aunt of jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, speaking on behalf of the non-governmental human rights group UN Watch, called on ... More >>
Head of Intellectual Property Agency Stole DNA Samples
Wednesday, 5 March 2014, 12:04 pm | UN Watch
A senior UN official alleges that Francis Gurry, the Australian head of the world body’s intellectual property agency, engineered the theft of personal items from employees to extract DNA samples, and then covered it up by intimidation and by suppressing ... More >>
Suspend Russia, other dictators from UN human rights council
Tuesday, 4 March 2014, 11:32 am | UN Watch
Campaign launches to suspend Russia, China, Cuba, and Saudi Arabia from the Human Rights Council as they take their new seats and as Russia increases threats to Ukraine. More >>
Vietnam blocks journalist from attending UN rights review
Monday, 3 February 2014, 10:17 am | UN Watch
GENEVA, February 2, 2014 - Pham Chi Dung, a respected independent journalist and civil society advocate, was blocked by Vietnamese authorities from leaving the country yesterday evening to attend events in Geneva during the UN Human Rights Council’s ... More >>
NGOs Urge Opposition to Elections to UN Human Rights Council
Tuesday, 5 November 2013, 10:17 am | UN Watch
New Report: UNHRC Candidates China, Cuba, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Jordan, Vietnam are "Not Qualified"; Maldives, Morocco, Namibia, South Africa, South Sudan, Uruguay are "Questionable". More >>
Refusal to take seat on UN Security Council is " victory "
Saturday, 19 October 2013, 2:07 pm | UN Watch
NGO: Saudi Arabia refusal to take seat on UN Security Council is "victory for human rights" More >>
Swiss Parliament Declares U.N. Nomination of Jean Ziegler
Wednesday, 21 August 2013, 4:45 pm | UN Watch
GENEVA, August 20 – UN Watch applauded the Swiss parliament today for declaring the U.N. nomination of Jean Ziegler — co-founder, co-manager, and 2002 recipient of the Muammar Gaddafi Human Rights Prize — “inappropriate.” More >>
UN Ambassador Samantha Power: Jean Ziegler "Unfit" for UNHRC
Saturday, 17 August 2013, 1:11 pm | UN Watch
GENEVA, Aug. 16 – Newly-appointed U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, who became famous as a human rights activist, Harvard professor, and genocide expert, entered her first major controversy last night by declaring her opposition ... More >>
UK & Canada to Protest Mugabe’s UN Tourism Summit
Friday, 9 August 2013, 12:40 pm | UN Watch
The non-governmental advocacy group UN Watch welcomed reports that Britain and Canada will not be sending any representatives to a global UN tourism conference being hosted by Zimbabwe later this month. More >>
Iran's Rouhani must be condemned for "ugly incitement"
Saturday, 3 August 2013, 2:55 pm | UN Watch
GENEVA, August 2 -- A Geneva-based human rights group urged UN chief Ban Ki-moon and the world body's human rights commissioner Navi Pillay to immediately condemn the Iranian president's statement describing Israel as "an old wound" that ... More >>
UN Announces Nov. 12th For Human Rights Council Elections
Tuesday, 30 July 2013, 5:09 pm | UN Watch
UN Watch calls on U.S., EU & UN's Ban to end silence over “rogues gallery” More >>
