PRESS RELEASE EU’s Ashton wraps up “substantive and useful” Vienna round with Iran, as two UN reports detail worsening human rights situation GENEVA, March 19 –
UN Watch’s recent human rights summit was the focus of the following op-ed in the Ottawa Citizen. Picking Sides on the ‘World Stage’ By Terry Glavin
PRESS RELEASE GENEVA, March 11, 2014 – Today and tomorrow, March 11-12, Mr. Ahn Myeong Cheol and Mr. Kang Cheol Hwan, two escaped North Korean
PRESS RELEASE UN Watch circulates draft resolution for urgent debate and commission of inquiry CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO GENEVA, March 7, 2014 – Venezuela’s representative to
Cambodian parliament member and women’s rights activist, Mu Sochua, spoke at the 6th annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy. Full speech below: ) Extracts:
Saudi dissident and human rights activist, Ali al-Ahmed, spoke out against the Saudi monarchy’s crimes at the 6th annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy. Full
William Browder, the man behind the US legislation ‘The Magnitsky Act,’ spoke on government corruption in Russia at the 6th annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights
Biram Dah Abeid, a Mauritanian human rights defender and the President and founder of the anti-slavery NGO, Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement in Mauritania
Blind Chinese dissident and recipient of the 2014 Geneva Courage Award, Chen Guangcheng, spoke on the importance of human rights activism against Chinese governmental oppression
Journalist and foreign correspondent, James Kirchick, spoke on Russia’s state-controlled media and intimidation of foreign press at the 6th annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy.
Iranian journalist and activist, Potkin Azarmehr, spoke on Iran’s state-controlled media at the 6th annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy. Full speech below at 02:13:19
