PRESS RELEASE New York, May 6, 2009 — More than a third of the countries vying for seats on the United Nations Human Rights Council have dismal
UN Watch was at U.N. headquarters in New York yesterday to release a joint report with Freedom House opposing repressive regimes running for election to
PRESS RELEASE Geneva, May 5, 2009 — Hillel Neuer, executive director of the Geneva-based monitoring group UN Watch, issued the following statement today in advance
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