The United Nations announced on March 13 that Iran will get a seat on the U.N. women’s rights committee which judges complaints alleging violations of women’s rights. No joke: the Islamic Republic of #Iran was just appointed to the @UN_Women's rights committee that judges complaints of women's …
Remarks at a UN Security Council Emergency Meeting on Violence in the Middle East U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley, May 15, 2018 Thank you, Madam President. Today’s session was called to discuss the issue of violence in the Middle East. We are all concerned about violence in the Middle East. The United States …
GENEVA, April 16, 2018 – A Swiss-based watchdog organization today called on the world body not to elect a “rogues’ gallery of the world’s worst human rights abusers” to the 19-nation UN committee that accredits human rights organizations, including candidate countries Iran, Russia, …
Turkey to deport Iranian journalist who wrote for Israeli site, now faces execution Journalist left Iran when her book on women’s oppression was banned. Turkey said it will deport her on Aug. 5, 2017, after she wrote for an Israeli newspaper. by Uzay Bulut Time is running out. This is a call for activism. …
Sweden has just announced that it will introduce a U.N. resolution on Iran’s human rights record—at the same time as its leaders are being ridiculed worldwide for selling out Iranian women’s rights in their visit this week to Tehran. In a statement that went viral on Twitter and Facebook, UN …
GENEVA, Feb. 13, 2017 — In a statement that has gone viral on Twitter and Facebook, UN Watch, a non-governmental human rights NGO in Geneva, expressed disappointment that Sweden’s self-declared “first feminist government in the world” sacrificed its principles and betrayed the rights of …
GENEVA, Dec. 19, 2016 – Though proponents of the Iran nuclear deal promised it would not affect their scrutiny of Iran’s human rights record, today’s Western-drafted UN General Assembly resolution criticizing Iran’s human rights record added an unprecedented amount of praise for the …
GENEVA, Nov. 14 — UN Watch welcomed a letter by 11 Arab countries to the UN which accuses Iran of being “a State sponsor of terrorism” throughout the entire Middle East, and of only increasing “aggression in the region and the continuation of support for terrorist groups” since the …
Masih Alinejad, Iranian journalist & women’s rights activist, at EU Parliament, Sept. 6, 2016 I ask Catherine Ashton, Federica Mogherini—all of you female politicians around the world—to stand for your own dignity. Because if our government comes to visit Europe, and you ask the female politician, …
EXCLUSIVE REPORT Swedish delegate joins UK, France, Germany and other EU states today in voting “Yes” to single out Israel at the 2016 WHO world assembly, May 25, 2016. GENEVA, May 25 — The UK, France, Germany and other EU states voted today for a UN resolution, co-sponsored by the Arab group of …
