PRESS RELEASE Geneva, Feb. 20, 2006 – Three human rights groups today urged the President of the General Assembly and the United Nations to reject last-minute
Source of ratings: Freedom House, “Freedom in the World 2006,” Annual Global Survey of Political Rights and Civil Liberties Executive Summary: As demonstrated by the
On Monday, UN Watch testified before the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), at its Thematic Discussion on the Prevention of Genocide.
News: Jean Ziegler, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, announced at a UN conference last Thursday that he had written to Romano
Is it true, as the old adage goes, that “there is honor among thieves”? At the United Nations, yes. Year after year, regimes that rob
The World Summit on the Information Society met from December 10-12 in Geneva. Bringing together government and civil society leaders, the UN-run event took aim
Jean Ziegler, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, visited Israel, the West Bank and Gaza from July 3 to 13. His report
In a recent opinion piece for the Los Angeles Times, Alan Dershowitz argued that the bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad is partly the
Meeting at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva last month, a committee of independent experts called into question the Jewish character of the State of
News: The Commission on Human Rights, the central human rights event on the UN calendar, opens its annual six-week session on 17 March. Analysis: Every
On Monday, the UN’s World Food Program launched its “Africa Hunger Alert” campaign to draw attention to and raise funds for 38 million people facing
“Poverty breeds terror.” At the United Nations, this claim is regularly expressed in discussions on terrorism. But does the evidence bear this out? Analysis: In a