The UN’s 45-member Commission on the Status of Women, meeting in its 2017 annual session, singled out Israel as the only country in the world
MEMBERS: Saudi Arabia Iraq, Cuba, China, Qatar, Angola, Burundi, Pakistan, Venezuela, DR Congo, Afghanistan, United Arab Emirates… Meet the 2018 membership of the U.N. Human Rights Council, elected by the United Nations with
The U.N. human rights council’s new resolution on Yemen is not the “victory” that Amnesty and others claim, but rather a watered-down version of the
https://www.facebook.com/unwatch/videos/10154782260296561/ UN Human Rights Council Testimony of Ensaf Haidar, on Behalf of UN Watch 19 September 2017 Translated from Arabic original Thank you. I
GENEVA, Sept. 19, 2017 — The wife of jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi—the world’s most famous political prisoner—will address the United Nations for the first time
Testimony delivered by UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer before the United Nations Human Rights Council, June 16, 2017 Mr. President, we take the floor
GENEVA, June 8, 2017 – The U.N. today said that questioning Saudi Arabia’s membership on the Human Rights Council is a “distraction,” a “gross oversimplification,”
The U.N. Human Rights Council is right now debating Saudi women’s rights, in a report to be presented by its expert Philip Alston (page 13-17 here).
Articles from pro-Saudi media show how the fundamentalist regime uses its election to U.N. human rights bodies for propaganda and as a badge of false
The opening speaker was Ali Nasser Alghafs, Saudi Minister of Labor and Social Development. GENEVA, May 7, 2017 – A foundation run by the Saudi
May 6, 2017 – Swedish foreign minister Margot Wallström defended the election of Saudi Arabia to the U.N. women’s rights commission, saying they “ought to
