PRESS RELEASE Geneva, May 15, 2006 – UN Watch today called on the 47 countries of the newly elected UN Human Rights Council to take immediate actions necessary to ensure that next month’s inaugural session creates a robust mechanism to review violations, upholds the traditional participation of …
PRESS RELEASE Groups Urge Removal of “Anti-NGO Clause” and Reinstatement of Annan’s 2/3 Threshold for Member Elections Geneva, March 2, 2006 – Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) today called on United Nations member states to make three key changes to the blueprint for a new Human Rights Council. (See …
PRESS RELEASE Geneva, Feb 23, 2006 – Today’s proposed UN resolution to replace the world body’s discredited human rights commission with a new council offers some improvements, but falls short of the broad reforms urged by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN …
September 2005 began with great expectations from U.N. friends and foes alike. As the month draws to a close, however, it is likely to leave both dissatisfied. Champions of an empowered world body were looking to the World Summit in New York, the largest assemblage of world leaders in history, as a moment of …
News: Plans for major reform of the United Nations are rapidly accelerating. Multiple competing proposals are on the table, with 191 member states vying for advantage through alliances old and new. In February, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan released his proposal, “In Larger Freedom”, …
Anyone questioning the necessity of Kofi Annan’s proposed overhaul of the 53-member U.N. Commission on Human Rights need only look to the results of its recently-concluded annual session. Meeting in Geneva over March and April, the world’s foremost human rights forum once again failed to even …
As the UN struggles to lead global relief efforts for victims of the Indian Ocean Tsunami, the world body’s senior staff are experiencing a tidal wave of their own. In a sweeping overhaul, Secretary-General Kofi Annan is replacing many of his top deputies, a belated response to the series of UN scandals, …
As the year 2004 comes to a close, all discussion at the United Nations is overshadowed by two seemingly unrelated events: a corruption scandal bearing possible connections to Kofi Annan, and the release of an international panel’s proposal for drastic reform of the world body. Whether or not U.S. …
News: In a recent letter to Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) expressed its opposition to the separation wall Israel is building along its border with the West Bank. The CEIRPP was established in 1975 by the General Assembly, …
UN Watch Chairman, Ambassador Alfred H. Moses, reminded the world about the abuse of Israel at the United Nations in an opinion piece, published 8 January 2002 in the International Herald Tribune and excerpted below. Signatory countries to the Fourth Geneva Convention recently issued a declaration singling out …
