UN Watch Statement Human Rights Council, 26th Session ID with SR on DPRK 18 June 2014 Delivered by Yitian Zhang Thank you, Mr. President. UN Watch commends the Special Rapporteur for his report on the systematic, widespread, and gross human rights violations in the DPRK. We welcome its conclusions and …
PRESS RELEASE Also elected: Russia, China, genocidal Sudan, Cuba, Pakistan, Turkey, slave-holding Mauritania NGOs protest “Black Day for Human Rights” Iranian brought to the gallows in the northern city of Nowshahr on April 15, 2014. Iran put to death at least 369 people and likely several hundreds of …
PRESS RELEASE Above in red: the Chinese agent caught spying on a Canadian activist GENEVA, March 20, 2014 – Security officers inside the UN human rights council yesterday caught a Chinese agent surreptitiously taking photographs of a Canadian rights activist and her computer screen, one day after she testified …
PRESS RELEASE GENEVA, March 18, 2014 – China today interrupted testimony at the United Nations Human Rights Council by the daughter one of its most well-known political prisoners, prompting a high-profile international clash in the plenary, as the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Ireland, Hungary, …
UN Watch Testimony to United Nations Human Rights Council 18 March 2014 Delivered by Ms. Ti-Anna Wang TIME TO FREE MY FATHER, WANG BING ZHANG [In Chinese] Thank you, Mr. President.My name is Ti-Anna Wang, and I’m the daughter of a Chinese political prisoner. I wish to use my family’s experience to draw this …
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 at the 6th annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy. Full speech below at 02:54:13 minute mark: Extracts: “It …
Youngest MP in Tibet’s Parliament-in-Exile Tenzin Dhardon Sharling spoke on Tibet at yesterday’s 6th annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy. The full speech is available on video here at the 01:29:00 mark: Extracts: “Normally the body’s torn apart so that the women can create …
On January 15th, 2014, China, a newly-elected UN Human Rights Council member, arrested distinguished Uyghur scholar and activist Ilham Tohti without specific charges, drawing swift condemnation from the United States and European Union. The U.S. State Department lambasted the arrest as “part of a disturbing …
Dictatorships China and Cuba just took their new seats on the Executive Board of UNDP, whose stated priority is “Building democratic societies.” The tyrannies will help oversee UN democracy promotion through 2016. Iran’s murderous and misogynistic regime is already a member, and will continue …
The UN brought a representative of Sudan’s genocidal regime to train Beijing diplomats on China’s “role and opportunities within the United Nations.” On 13-14 January, 2014, UNITAR, the UN Institute for Training and Research, held a conference in Shanghai, entitled “Transformative Global …
