Background On May 12, 2009, the UN General Assembly will elect 18 new Human Rights Council members. Twenty countries are candidates. However, each is not
“Our meeting today just happens to coincide with the opening of the UN’s Durban Review Conference in Geneva. I regret that this conference, like the
“Our meeting today just happens to coincide with the opening of the UN’s Durban Review Conference in Geneva. I regret that this conference, like the
Durban 2 Conference: speech given at parallel NGO conference Denis MacShane, MP, at Conference Against Racism, Discrimination and Persecution Co-Organized by UN Watch and 20
The final outcome document of the Durban Review Conference was formally adopted at the U.N. today. Click here for the U.N. report of the conference.
Yesterday at the U.N., a panel discussion on “Islamophobia” turned heated when its focus shifted to anti-Zionist conspiracy theories. This side event to the Durban
The architects of Durban II — Libya, Iran, and other intolerant and repressive regimes — tried to repeat the hatefest of the 2001 Durban conference,
PRESS RELEASE Geneva, April 24, 2009 — The conclusion today of a U.N. conference on racism and discrimination was “a missed opportunity,” said Hillel Neuer, executive
At the U.N. Durban Review Conference today, countries that lack basic freedoms took the floor to defend their human rights records. Belarus said “There are
During the week of the U.N. Durban II conference in Geneva, UN Watch organized a series of major events in Geneva, together with large coalitions of non-governmental
Differences in viewpoints between countries and regions were evident at yesterday’s meeting of the Durban Review Conference. Topics discussed included anti-Semitism, “Islamophobia,” homophobia, foreign occupation,
At Tuesday’s high level segment of the Durban Review Conference, Qatar, Indonesia, Libya, Yemen, Syria, Sudan, Palestine and Cuba all highlighted “the plight of the