Geneva Summit
55 NGOs: UN must expel Syria from human rights committee
PRESS RELEASE French resident Francois Hollande said Assad’s envoy would be expelled — but in fact Lamia Shakkour stays in Paris as rep to UNESCO
June 1, 2012
UN Speeches
UN Speeches
Issue 357: Durban Debate: UN Watch Confronts Bigoted Regimes, Exposes Their Lies & Hypocrisy
Durban Debate: UN Watch Confronts Bigoted Regimes, Exposes Their Lies & Hypocrisy After some of the world’s most bigoted, benighted and barbaric regimes held
March 25, 2012
Geneva Summit
Today: Human Rights Heroes Join Hands at Geneva Summit
PRESS RELEASE Dissidents, Victims & Activists from 30 countries crafting resolutions on abuses for UN to adopt Follow Live Webcast today, March 13, 2012 &
March 13, 2012
Geneva Summit
50 NGOs urge Pakistan to free Christian mother from execution on charge of Blasphemy
PRESS RELEASE Petition was presented now in speech to UN Human Rights Council GENEVA, March 13 – Fifty human rights activists and a former president of
March 13, 2012
Human Rights
Outrage at UN as 56 Islamic States Slam Gays for “Abnormal Sexual Behaviour,” Warning UN to Ignore Anti-Gay Violence
PRESS RELEASE Rights group urges Hillary Clinton to speak out GENEVA, Feb. 17 – A Pakistani spokesman for the UN’s Islamic bloc sparked outrage today
February 17, 2012
Human Rights
Hilary Clinton to speak at UN tomorrow while human rights agency gives podium to “Gaddafi Human Rights Prize” front group
PRESS RELEASE UN Watch urges Clinton, EU’s Ashton, France and UK to speak out GENEVA, Dec. 5 – On the same day as US Secretary
December 5, 2011
Afghanistan
Bonn summit could “legitimize the Taliban,” warns Afghan women’s rights activist
PRESS RELEASE Dr. Massouda Jalal, center, and fellow Afghan activists, with Arielle Herzog Hadida, UN Watch Director of Special Projects, and UN Watch intern Paul
October 27, 2011
Israel
UN’s Richard Falk addresses UNGA today, but report shows he uses official mandate to promote 9/11 conspiracy theory
PRESS RELEASE GENEVA, Oct. 20 – UN Watch today issued the following report, calling for Ban Ki-moon, UN rights chief Navi Pillay, the US and
October 20, 2011
China
China interrupts UN testimony of ex-political prisoner; USA defends Yang Jianli
PRESS RELEASE GENEVA, March 15 – The Chinese government today interrupted testimony by one of its most well-known former political prisoners in the plenary of the UN
March 15, 2011
Geneva Summit
Iran stoning case lawyer heading to next week’s Geneva rights summit
PRESS RELEASE Source: Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy (https://www.genevasummit.org) Date: 9 March 2011 GENEVA – The Iranian lawyer of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the 43
March 9, 2011
Libya
Victims: Remove Qaddafi From UN Rights Council After Today’s Review of Libyan Record
PRESS RELEASE GENEVA, November 9, 2010 – Victims of Libyan torture and terrorism said today that the Qaddafi regime’s report to a U.N. Human Rights Council
November 9, 2010
Israel
U.N. Plenary Silences Challenge to Impartiality of Goldstone Follow-Up Panel
PRESS RELEASE Plus: Backgrounder on this Afternoon’s Flotilla Report Geneva, September 27 – The U.N. chastised a non-governmental organization today after it challenged the independence
September 27, 2010