Issue 492 In This Issue Why HRW’s Ken Roth won’t condemn the kidnapping of Israeli teens UN Watch takes the floor at the UN Human
Does it make sense that these Council Members are the UN’s guardians of women’s rights? UN Watch testimony before the UN Human Rights Council 26th
HRC 25th Session Item 9 General Debate March 25, 2014 Delivered by Hillel Neuer Thank you Mr. President. When civil rights leader Morris Abram founded
Despicable: Pakistan, a member of the UN Human Rights Council, has just sentenced to death a mentally-ill man for the crime of blasphemy.
PRESS RELEASE UN Watch condemns “tyrants’ subversion of UN human rights system” GENEVA, April 26, 2013 – Today’s UN quadrennial review of Canada’s human rights record quickly turned
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is often demonstrated as one of the Human Rights Council’s success stories. Indeed, it can have an impact when countries
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is often demonstrated as one of the Human Rights Council’s success stories. Indeed, it can have an impact when countries
PRESS RELEASE GENEVA, Feb. 25 – The time has come for the UN’s highest body on human rights to move from rhetoric to concrete action,
During a recent meeting at the UN, the High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay seemed to downplay the responsibility of governments in instigating violent
PRESS RELEASE GENEVA, Dec. 18 – Women’s rights activist Mukhtar Mai, who made world headlines when she was gang raped as a “punishment” ordered by
PRESS RELEASE Rights groups protest sure win by Pakistan, Venezuela, Kazakhstan, Cote d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Gabon, and UAE NEW YORK, Nov. 12 — At around 11:30
This week the U.N. Human Rights Council examined, as part of its periodic review of all countries, the human rights situations in two countries with