
China joins U.N. human rights panel, will help pick experts on free speech, health, arbitrary detention
Mr. Jiang Duan, who holds the rank of Minister at China’s mission to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, will play a key role

Mr. Jiang Duan, who holds the rank of Minister at China’s mission to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, will play a key role

Iranian Ambassador Esmaeil Baghaei Hamaneh addressing the United Nations Human Rights Council as it adopted a report on the country’s mandatory review, Geneva, March

In its first ever review of the Palestinians’ record on child rights on January 28-29, 2020, the UN child rights committee largely accepted the Palestinian

GENEVA, February 28, 2020 — The same Syrian government now indiscriminately bombing four million of its own civilians in Idlib was elected to a senior

PRESS RELEASE GENEVA, February 25, 2020 – As foreign ministers gathered in Geneva today for the 2020 opening of the UN Human Rights Council, the non-governmental

A panel of five U.N. human rights monitors will next month undertake a two-week visit and investigation of Australia’s record on arbitrary detention, prompting criticism

GENEVA, January 15, 2020 — As thousands of courageous men and women in Iran have taken to the streets and risked their lives for the

wHILE On December 12, 2019, the Geneva-based UN Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination found it had jurisdiction to hear the Palestinians’ inter-state complaint against

CLICK HERE TO SIGN THE PETITION — FIRMA LA PETICIÓN Recalling General Assembly Resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006, particularly Art. 8, which provides that

PRESS RELEASE TODAY: UN Watch Urges Canada’s Justin Trudeau to Reverse U.N. Vote Against Israel GENEVA, December 18, 2019 — Canada today should reverse its

GENEVA, December 12, 2019 — Former EU High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy Federica Mogherini was appointed to co-chair the U.N.’s High Level-Panel on

Canadian Foreign Minister François-Philippe Champagne is “surprised” by Nikki Haley’s criticism of his government’s UN vote against Israel, designed to curry support for Ottawa’s bid