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NGO: UN renewal of rights chief Navi Pillay
Tuesday, 15 May 2012, 1:13 pm | UN Watch
After Ban Ki-moon's announcement today that he supports a two-year extension for rights commissioner Navi Pillay, a non-governmental watchdog group says that the decision was made -- pending the UNGA's rubber stamp -- without due public consultation ... More >>
Renewal of Rights Chief Should be Preceded by Discussion
Tuesday, 15 May 2012, 12:48 pm | UN Watch
After Ban Ki-moon's announcement that he supports a two-year extension for rights commissioner Navi Pillay, a non-governmental watchdog group says the decision was made without due public consultation or healthy discussion of her record on the job. More >>
40 MPs & NGOs Oppose Chavez Rights Body Seat Bid
Friday, 11 May 2012, 11:39 am | UN Watch
40 MPs & NGOs oppose recently-declared Chavez bid for seat on U.N.'s top rights body Coalition from 19 countries including US, France, UK, Canada, Switzerland, Bahrain, Guinea, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Somalia, Uganda GENEVA, May 2, 2012 -- Forty parliamentarians ... More >>
UN Rights Council Condemns Israel In 5 Resolutions
Tuesday, 27 March 2012, 12:17 pm | UN Watch
Goldstone II: UN Rights Council Condemns Israel In 5 Resolutions, Creates New "Fact-Finding Mission" GENEVA, March 22 – The 47-nation UN Human Rights Council today adopted five resolutions condemning Israel, including one that creates a new “fact-finding ... More >>
50 Ngos Urge Pakistan To Free Christian Mother
Saturday, 17 March 2012, 3:19 pm | UN Watch
50 Ngos Urge Pakistan To Free Christian Mother From Execution On Charge Of Blasphemy Petition was presented now in speech to UN Human Rights Council Contact: media1@unwatch.org Tel: +41 22 734 1472 More >>
UN Rights Council Readying Resolution Praising Qaddaffi
Saturday, 17 March 2012, 3:16 pm | UN Watch
UN Watch: 2010 review was a mistrial, opposes adoption of today's report Amnesty USA chief says report is "abhorrent," calls for "redo" GENEVA, March 14, 2012 -- A UN report praising the Qaddafi regime's human rights record will ... More >>
Chavez Running For Seat On Top UN Rights Body
Friday, 24 February 2012, 2:29 pm | UN Watch
GENEVA, Feb. 22 – The governments of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Pakistan are slated to run unopposed for seats on the UN’s 47-nation Human Rights Council this year, reported the independent monitoring group UN Watch, citing sources close to ... More >>
Outrage at UN as 56 Islamic States Slam Gays
Saturday, 18 February 2012, 9:08 pm | UN Watch
MEDIA Release Internet link to this release Outrage at UN as 56 Islamic States Slam Gays for "Abnormal Sexual Behaviour," Warning UN to Ignore Anti-Gay Violence Rights group urges Hillary Clinton to speak out GENEVA, Feb. 17 – A Pakistani spokesman ... More >>
Libya Tells UN: Gays Threaten Human Race
Tuesday, 14 February 2012, 2:09 pm | UN Watch
Libya Tells UN Rights Council: "Gays threaten continuation of human race" Libya’s Islamist objection to gays dampers hopes of Arab Spring More >>
Exclusive: Syria to Face UNESCO Human Rights Expulsion Bid
Thursday, 26 January 2012, 4:43 pm | UN Watch
Exclusive: Documents Reveal Syria to Face Expulsion Bid From UNESCO Human Rights Committee Historic U.S.-led initiative backed by UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Canada, Japan, S. Korea & some Arab countries Contact: media1@unwatch.org Tel: ... More >>
UN Must Condemn Stabbing of Gaza Rights Activist
Wednesday, 18 January 2012, 1:46 pm | UN Watch
“This latest attack on a rights activist underscores the brutally enforced intolerance in Gaza for any discourse other the anti-Israel mantras of Hamas, which rules the strip with an iron fist,” said Hillel Neuer, UN Watch executive director. Masked ... More >>
UN Lowers Flag For Kim Jong-Il
Friday, 30 December 2011, 12:45 pm | UN Watch
With UN flags at half-mast today at its Human Rights Council (see photo right) and other buildings to mark the funeral of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il, a Geneva-based human rights group called on the UN to show equal sympathy for the victims of Kim’s ... More >>
Groups Urge UNESCO To Cancel Election Of Syria
Monday, 19 December 2011, 11:57 am | UN Watch
GENEVA, Dec. 15 – An international coalition of 55 members of parliament, pro-democracy dissidents, human rights NGOs and religious groups launched a campaign today calling on UNESCO to reverse its recent election of Syria to two committees dealing with ... More >>
Rights Agency Gives Podium to "Gaddafi Prize" Front Group
Tuesday, 6 December 2011, 12:08 pm | UN Watch
GENEVA, Dec. 5 – On the same day as US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton speaks tomorrow at the UN’s European headquarters in Geneva, the world body’s human rights agency will be co-hosting an event, in a room next door, with the Libyan front ... More >>
UNESCO Elects Syria To Human Rights Committees
Friday, 25 November 2011, 11:39 am | UN Watch
UNESCO’s executive board, which includesthe US, France, the UK and other Western democracies, unanimously elected Syria to a pair of committees – one dealing directly with human rights issues – even as the Bashar al-Assad regime maintains its campaign ... More >>
Iran “Human Rights” Center
Tuesday, 22 November 2011, 12:43 pm | UN Watch
The International Committee for the Red Cross and a leading human rights authority, London-based William Schabas, have given their credibility to the conferences at the Iranian-sponsored Center for Human Rights and Cultural Diversity in Tehran — ... More >>
Rights Groups Welcome UN Draft on Syria
Friday, 18 November 2011, 12:25 pm | UN Watch
GENEVA, Nov. 17 – In an attempt to influence a UN resolution on Syrian abuses now being debated by member states, a coalition of 20 famous dissidents and rights groups today circulated their own draft which specifically calls for the post of ... More >>
Urge to Canada's Mcgill U. Distance Itself From Richard Falk
Wednesday, 9 November 2011, 12:33 pm | UN Watch
GENEVA, Nov. 8 – Following its National Post op-ed today criticizing McGill University for hosting a lecture next Monday by controversial U.N. figure Richard Falk, a Geneva-based watchdog group called on the Montreal institution to join UN Secretary-General Ban ... More >>
Bonn summit could legitimize Taliban, warns Afghan activist
Friday, 28 October 2011, 5:41 pm | UN Watch
Afghan women’s rights hero Dr. Massouda Jalal visited UN Watch headquarters today as part of a Europe-wide campaign to warn the international community not to legitimize the Taliban at an upcoming December summit in Bonn of 90 governments on the future ... More >>
Wikileaks: UN Hunger Expert's "Profoundly Immoral" Actions
Thursday, 27 October 2011, 9:28 am | UN Watch
Wikileaks: World Food Program told Kofi Annan of UN Hunger Expert's "Profoundly Immoral" Actions "Harming Lives of the Hungry" More >>
