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UN Rights Council Should investigate its Gaddafi apologists
Saturday, 22 October 2011, 7:59 pm | UN Watch
GENEVA, October 21 -- While the UN human rights office today called for an investigation into Gaddafi's death, an international coalition of 45 human rights groups today urged Ban Ki-moon and UN rights chief Navi Pillay to investigate two UN Human Rights ... More >>
UN Should Apologize For
Friday, 21 October 2011, 2:31 pm | UN Watch
45 NGOs urge UN Human Rights Council's Jean Ziegler to resign for founding "Gaddafi Human Rights Prize" More >>
UN's Richard Falk Addresses UNGA Today
Friday, 21 October 2011, 12:08 pm | UN Watch
UN's Richard Falk Addresses UNGA Today, But Report Shows He Uses Official Mandate To Promote 9/11 Conspiracy Theory More >>
Rights Group Urges U.N. Chief to Investigate China
Sunday, 9 October 2011, 4:52 pm | UN Watch
MEDIA Release Rights Group Urges U.N. Chief to Investigate China after Top Dissident Yang Jianli Deported to Taiwan GENEVA, Oct. 9 – The Geneva-based human rights group UN Watch today called on UN chief Ban Ki-moon and rights commissioner Navi Pillay ... More >>
Venezuela Condemned for Violations in Draft UNGA
Saturday, 8 October 2011, 6:31 pm | UN Watch
Resolution Circulated by Human Rights Groups GENEVA, Oct. 7 – As Venezuela this afternoon defended its human rights record before a mandatory examination by the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva (click here for live tweets) , a coalition of dissidents ... More >>
Dissidents & Rights Groups Reject Syrian Report
Saturday, 8 October 2011, 6:29 pm | UN Watch
MEDIA Release Dissidents & Rights Groups Reject Syrian Report, GENEVA, Oct. 7 – As the UN Human Rights Council this morning began its quadrennial review of Syria’s human rights record, a coalition of 20 famous dissidents and rights groups ... More >>
Analysis and Commentary from UN Watch in Geneva Oct. 3, 2011
Tuesday, 4 October 2011, 4:15 pm | UN Watch
In September 2010 the United Nations Human Rights Council lashed out at UN Watch for exposing the failure of its flotilla inquiry to consider key facts that were submitted into evidence. Commission chair Desmond de Silva accused UN Watch of a ... More >>
Chronicle: "UN Seems Impotent on Human Rights"
Tuesday, 4 October 2011, 10:30 am | UN Watch
The following column by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Joel Brinkley, syndicated in newspapers across America, appears on page E-5 of today's San Francisco Chronicle . More >>
UN Must Expel Countries from Human & Women's Rights Panels
Friday, 30 September 2011, 10:32 am | UN Watch
Some of the world's most famous dissidents and former political prisoners urged the UN today to suspend China, Cuba, Russia and Saudi Arabia from the UN Human Rights Council, which is now in session, and to expel Iran from the UN Commission on the ... More >>
White House Slams UN Racism Summit
Saturday, 24 September 2011, 5:14 pm | UN Watch
White House Slams UN Racism Summit for "Silencing" Rights Group GENEVA - In a show of support for the Geneva-based UN Watch group, the White House stated it was "deeply disappointed" that United Nations rules for credentialing ... More >>
UN bars watchdog NGO from Durban Racism Meeting
Friday, 23 September 2011, 4:37 pm | UN Watch
UN bars watchdog NGO from Durban racism meeting, welcomes "Qaddafi Prize" group linked to UNHRC offical More >>
U.N. Bars UN Watch From Monitoring Durban III
Tuesday, 20 September 2011, 9:59 am | UN Watch
In an unpredecented development, the United Nations has decided to block UN Watch from attending and monitoring this Thursday's Durban III "anti-racism" meeting. See full story below. This is the first time in history that UN Watch has ... More >>
Rights groups welcome UN condemnation of Syria
Thursday, 25 August 2011, 9:39 am | UN Watch
ights groups welcomed today's sharp condemnation of Syria, and the creation of a full commission of inquiry, at the conclusion of an emergency meeting of the UN Human Rights Council. The EU-sponsored resolution passed 33 to 4, with 9 abstentions. More >>
50 groups welcome UN emergency session on Syria
Friday, 19 August 2011, 5:14 pm | UN Watch
GENEVA - An international coalition of 50 human rights and church relief organizations are calling for Monday's UN Human Rights Council session on Syria to mandate a permanent special investigator into violations by the regime of President Bashar al-Assad and ... More >>
Groups urge UN human rights council session on Syria
Wednesday, 10 August 2011, 5:57 pm | UN Watch
An international coalition of human rights and church relief organizations are urging the UN's 47-member Human Rights Council to "end its silence on the atrocities now being committed by the Syrian regime." The groups are calling for the council to ... More >>
DPRK Opens DisarmamentPlenary:Canada Boycotts,Groups Protest
Tuesday, 9 August 2011, 12:09 pm | UN Watch
North Korea today began chairing the summer plenary of the UN-backed Conference on Disarmament, eliciting a boycott by the Canadian government and a sharp protest by 28 non-governmental organizations. Menawhile, Burma, Iran, Nigeria and Norway offered ... More >>
Events Protesting DPRK Presidency of Disarmament Conference
Wednesday, 3 August 2011, 11:58 am | UN Watch
North Korea today begins chairing the third part of the 2011 session of the UN-backed Conference on Disarmament (CD), described by UN chief Ban Ki-moon as “the undisputed home of international arms control efforts.” In response, a series of protest events ... More >>
Czechs pull out of UN's "Durban III" racism conference
Saturday, 23 July 2011, 10:18 am | UN Watch
Czechs pull out of UN's "Durban III" racism conference UN Watch calls on other EU states to follow For Immediate Release GENEVA — UN Watch commended the Czech government for announcing that it will stay away from the UN’s Sept. ... More >>
UN Rights Chief: Official's Cartoon is "Anti-Semitic"
Monday, 18 July 2011, 11:41 am | UN Watch
N high commissioner for human rights Navi Pillay, responding to a complaint by the UN Watch monitoring group, and ensuing global furore, issued an unprecedented statement about one of the UN Human Rights Council’s own officials, describing a caricature ... More >>
Canada to boycott UN-backed disarmament conference
Tuesday, 12 July 2011, 2:10 pm | UN Watch
"UN Watch salutes Canada for being the first country to denounce North Korea’s outrageous presidency of the UN-sponsored Conference on Disarmament,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of the Geneva-based monitoring group that first reported ... More >>
