Venezuela
Venezuela's Maduro regime joins top U.N. human rights body in 1 month
Venezuela is weeks away from joining the UN’s highest human rights body, despite its egregious record of gross and systematic human rights abuses. UN
November 28, 2019
Venezuela
Petitions & Appeals
Global Campaign to Expel Maduro from the UN Human Rights Council
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
October 17, 2019
Human Rights
Tyrants celebrate as U.N. elects Venezuela, Mauritania, Libya, Sudan to top rights body
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
October 17, 2019
Human Rights
Report: Abuser states set to win top U.N. rights posts
GENEVA, October 11, 2019 – Ahead of next Thursday’s UN election of 14 nations to its highest human rights body, a coalition of non-governmental human rights groups from
October 11, 2019
It's official: Venezuela's Maduro regime set to win seat on UN's top human rights body
GENEVA, September 29, 2019 — It’s official: Venezuela has submitted its candidacy for a seat on the UN’s highest human rights body, and barring an
September 29, 2019
Venezuela: after 8-year activist campaign, UN opens first probe into rights abuses
UN Watch advisory board member Diego Arria, the former president of the UN Security Council, was a major force advocating to hold the Maduro regime
September 27, 2019
Escaped Venezuelan MP Addresses UN, Calls For Commission of Inquiry into Abuses
Venezuelan MP Miguel Pizarro outside the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, hosted by Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of UN Watch. GENEVA, July 3,
July 3, 2019
UN Watch Slams "Right to Food" Expert For Neglecting Hunger in Venezuela
Moments after the UN released its latest inquiry accusing Israel of war crimes for defending its Gaza border, UN Watch’s Hillel Neuer took the floor
March 1, 2019
Libya
Will Venezuela’s UN delegates defect as Libya’s did?
On Feb. 25, 2011, Adel Shaltut of Libya’s U.N. mission in Geneva defected before an urgent session of the U.N. Human Rights council, and denounced
February 25, 2019
UN rights council report glorifies Venezuela's Maduro regime
In the 39th session of the UN Human Rights Council that ended last week, not a single country spoke out when shameless propaganda for Venezuela’s
October 2, 2018
UN Adopts Watered-down Resolution on Venezuela 'Squanders Golden Opportunity, Sends Wrong Message'
September 27, 2018 — Today’s UN draft resolution on Venezuela, adopted by the 47-nation Human Rights Council by a vote of 23 to 7 with 17 abstentions,
September 27, 2018
Venezuela FM lies to Human Rights Council; UN Watch responds
GENEVA, Sept. 11, 2018 — After Venezuela’s foreign minister today was allowed to make a special address before the UN Human Rights Council, where he
September 12, 2018
