Issue 516 Ex-UN investigator Richard Falk and his wife attack UN Watch Falk: “I have been the continuous target of a sustained defamation campaign spearheaded by the Zionist UN Watch…. On at least one occasion I was informed that a previous offer of a visiting appointment at an overseas university, …
As Richard Falk exits the UN, and as his wife Hilal Elver — who is co-director of the institute which sponsors the blog below — enters the UN as a newly-appointed investigator of its Human Rights Council, it is important to appreciate the open anti-Semitism that their heavily-moderated blog hosts on …
U.S. and Canada blast today’s UN appointment of Richard Falk’s wife, citing ‘biased and inflammatory views,’ ‘abysmal judgment’ Goldstone Report Co-Author Christine Chinkin Loses Bid for Palestine Post to Indonesian Diplomat Today, as controversial UN official Richard Falk …
UN Watch welcomes the following statement just issued now by the U.S. government, in response to our letter outlining Hilal Elver’s troubling record. ————– U.S. Mission to the United Nations in Geneva For Immediate Release | May 8, 2014 MEDIA NOTE New Special Rapporteur on the …
It’s official: on the same day that disgraced UN official Richard Falk ended his 6-year term as a human rights investigator, the Human Rights Council has now appointed his wife, Hilal Elver Falk. The couple are not only husband and wife, but close professional partners in all of their work, co-directing an …
PRESS RELEASE Goldstone Report Co-Author Christine Chinkin Loses Bid for Palestine Post to Indonesian Diplomat Today, as controversial UN official Richard Falk ended his 6-year term as human rights investigator, the UN appointed his wife and academic partner, Hilal Elver Falk, to her own 6-year term as a human …
PRESS RELEASE UN Watch says Hilal Elver is ‘unfit to serve,’ urges U.S. ambassador Samantha Power to oppose her in Thursday’s election Hilal Elver, co-director with her husband Richard Falk of a research institute at UCSB, is slated to win a top UN post on Thursday. GENEVA, May 6, 2014 …
The following UN Watch letter was sent today to U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power. Click here for PDF. The Honorable Amb. Samantha Power U.S. Mission to the United Nations 799 United Nations Plaza New York, New York 10017 USA 5 May 2014 Dear Ambassador Power, UN Watch is deeply concerned over the proposed UN …
For reasons that are unclear, and despite UN Watch’s online petition, no country has opposed the planned appointment next week of Hilal Elver — wife, co-author and close collaborator of 9/11 Truther Richard Falk — as a top U.N. human rights investigator. As we documented here, Elver is as …
