GENEVA, November 13, 2019 – Amnesty International accused Israel of attacking a Gaza human rights office with a missile yesterday, when the bombing was actually carried out by a Palestinian terrorist group, as confirmed today by Haaretz. Yesterday afternoon, only hours after a missile exploded in the …
A coalition of NGOs known as “Watch List on Children and Armed Conflict” is calling on UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to add Israel to a UN blacklist of those committing grave violations against children. This is not the first time that the group has lobbied for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) …
GENEVA, February 1, 2018 – The Geneva-based human rights group UN Watch condemned the U.N. election of Turkey as Vice-Chair of the committee that accredits and oversees the work of non-governmental human rights groups at the world body, noting that the Erdogan regime arrests, jails and persecutes human …
This week, the New York Times reported about China’s crackdown on human rights activists, particularly its harassment of, and reprisals against, activists who attend UN meetings. As UN Watch pointed out at the March 2017 Human Rights Council session and again in May, in a letter complaint to Human Rights Chief …
GENEVA, May 22 – The Geneva-based human rights group UN Watch condemned this morning’s election of Sudan as Vice-Chair of the U.N. committee that accredits and oversees the work of non-governmental human rights groups at the world body, noting that the Khartoum regime persecutes human rights …
GENEVA, Jan. 23, 2017 – UN Watch today called on Kenneth Roth, head of the New York-based activist group Human Rights Watch, to apologize for trivializing the Holocaust by making a thinly-veiled comparison to the Nazi genocide to support abortion rights. In a Twitter post supporting reproductive freedom, …
Sudan, whose leader is wanted for genocide in Darfur, is itself a victim of human rights violations, according to an official of the UN Human Rights Council, who blasted U.S. sanctions in a report delivered today before the 47-member body. Idriss Jazairy, whose title is “UN Special Rapporteur on the negative …
PRESS RELEASE 30 human rights groups file objection with UN Legal Counsel to disqualify Sudan’s candidacy Activists sent letters to 193 U.N. member states GENEVA, Aug. 30 – Mia Farrow, film star and longtime advocate for victims in Darfur, heads a campaign of human rights activists that today launched a …
As the UN Human Rights Council celebrates its 10th anniversary with endless self-congratulatory speeches, UN Watch will be reporting daily on the debates of the June 2016 session. Click here for UN Watch’s assessment of the council’s performance over the past decade. Human Rights as a …
PRESS RELEASE Courageous Champions of Human Rights Assemble in Geneva on Sidelines of UN Human Rights Council FULL PROGRAM OF TOMORROW’S SPEAKERS BELOW GENEVA, Feb. 24 – Courageous champions of human rights arrived in Geneva today from four corners of the globe in preparation for tomorrow’s Geneva …
