Proposal at U.N. to criminalize ‘defamation of Islam’
PRESS RELEASE Geneva, March 11, 2009 — UN Watch, a human rights monitoring organization based in Geneva, denounced a new U.N. resolution circulated today by Islamic states
PRESS RELEASE Geneva, March 11, 2009 — UN Watch, a human rights monitoring organization based in Geneva, denounced a new U.N. resolution circulated today by Islamic states
U.N. Delegates Laud Chinese Death Penalty and Internet Censorship “U.N. rights council becoming Mutual Praise Society,” says UN Watch 125-page report, featured in Reuters, Associated Press, South
PRESS RELEASE Group reports: U.N. rights council turning into “Mutual Praise Society” GENEVA, February 9, 2009 — Delegates to a U.N. meeting today on China’s human rights record
The Russian-chaired U.N. committee in Geneva that is drafting the Durban II declaration today barred noted French author Caroline Fourest and her Arte news crew from
The Russian-chaired U.N. committee in Geneva that is drafting the Durban II declaration today barred noted French author Caroline Fourest and her Arte news crew from
PRESS RELEASE Geneva, January 19, 2009 — As diplomats gathered in Geneva to draft the outcome declaration for the U.N.’s upcoming world conference on racism, UN Watch,
PRESS RELEASE Geneva, January 5, 2009 — UN Watch, an independent non-govermental organization headquartered in Geneva, today called on UN chief Ban Ki-moon and human rights high
PRESS RELEASE But advocacy campaign reduces support from 108 to 85 votes Geneva, November 24, 2008 — By a vote of 85 to 50, with 42 abstaining,
Paris, Oct. 2, 2008 — As vice-president of the Geneva NGO Special Committee on Human Rights, UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer headed an expert
PRESS RELEASE Geneva, Sept. 5, 2008 — UN Watch urged European Union members and UN rights chief Navanethem Pillay to take the floor at a UN anti-racism
PRESS RELEASE Abuja, Nigeria, August 26, 2008 — Geneva-based human rights group UN Watch expressed alarm over several provisions in a draft declaration set to
In its recently concluded June session, the UN Human Rights Council ruled that any references to Islamic Shar’ia law are prohibited in the council chamber.
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