Geneva, March 11, 2009 — A new U.N. resolution circulated today by Islamic states would define any questioning of Islamic dogma as a human rights violation, intimidate dissenting
PRESS RELEASE Geneva, March 11, 2009 — UN Watch, a human rights monitoring organization based in Geneva, denounced a new U.N. resolution circulated today by Islamic states
PRESS RELEASE GENEVA, March 6, 2009 — When they meet in Geneva today, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should urge Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey to withdraw
PRESS RELEASE GENEVA, February 20, 2009 — The United Nations Human Rights Council special session today on the financial crisis is a waste of the organization’s precious time,
In 2003, in Johannesburg, South Africa, a conference on Arab-led slavery of Africans issued a declaration accusing Arab countries of: “ethnocide of African people through
U.N. Delegates Laud Chinese Death Penalty and Internet Censorship “U.N. rights council becoming Mutual Praise Society,” says UN Watch 125-page report, featured in Reuters, Associated Press, South
Report of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the relationship between climate change and human rights: the right to self-determination,
Report of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the relationship between climate change and human rights: the right to self-determination,
Key Findings and Recommendations 1. The primary innovation of the UN Human Rights Council is its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism, which is meant to review
PRESS RELEASE Geneva, February 6, 2009 — The peer review sessions of the 47-nation U.N. Human Rights Council are being misused by countries to praise allies and criticize
PRESS RELEASE Geneva, Feb. 5 —Geneva-based human rights organization UN Watch today called on UN rights chief Navi Pillay to protest the “outrageous and discriminatory”