Statement by United Nations Watch, delivered by intern Issy Lyons, before the 62nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, 30 June 2026. Agenda
Launching a 10-day visit to the country, today the UN Special Rapporteur on Slavery, Tomoya Obokata, met with Mauritania’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Cheikh Ahmedou
GENEVA, May 4, 2022 — UN Watch welcomes today’s visit to Mauritania by the United Nations monitor on slavery is, where an estimated 500,000 people
GENEVA, January 19, 2021 — Country speakers taking the floor today at the UN Human Rights Council showered praise on Mauritania during a mandatory human rights review
GENEVA, October 17, 2019 – The U.N.’s election today of serial abusers of human rights —Venezuela, Mauritania, Libya and Sudan — to its highest human rights body drew sharp
GENEVA, October 16, 2019 – One day before the UN’s election of 14 nations to its highest human rights body, the Geneva-based non-governmental human rights group UN Watch
President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani Mauritania’s bid for a seat on the UN’s top human rights body should be rejected, as it fails to
GENEVA, March 16, 2016 – Prominent Mauritanian anti-slavery activist Abidine Merzough spoke today at the UN Human Rights Council on behalf of UN Watch. He
PRESS RELEASE Elected to ECOSOC: Misogynistic Pakistan, slave-holding Mauritania, gay-bashing Uganda, repressive Zimbabwe Ban Ki-moon, Samantha Power, EU should condemn GENEVA, Oct. 30 – UN Watch today called on
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
UN Watch in partnership with UN Women (National Committee, Austria), the Vienna NGO Committee on the Status of Women and the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna recently
PRESS RELEASE GENEVA, December 31, 2013 – UN Watch today released its annual rating of the Top 10 Worst UN Decisions of 2013, and expressed concern