Again: U.N. slams Canada (and Switzerland) for restricting demonstrations, likens it to Algeria, Belarus, Jordan, Russia
Thursday, June 21, 2012 10:32 am Canada, Freedom of Expression, HRC elections, Human Rights Council, Monitoring, Press Releases, UN Officials unwatch 0 24
PRESS RELEASE UN expert freedom of assembly would consider visit to Canada; Belarus dictatorship accuses Canada of police brutality GENEVA, June 21 – For the second time this week, an official of the U.N.’s top human rights body delivered a plenary address categorizing Canada with major violators of human …
Controversy: Defeated UN Rights Expert Lies About Rejected Application for New Post
Friday, March 23, 2012 10:52 am Cuba, Human Rights Council, Jean Ziegler, Monitoring, Press Releases, UN Officials, UNW Achievement unwatch 0 19
PRESS RELEASE Out of 4 applicants, Jean Ziegler is only one not to be shortlisted Today: UNHRC appointment will go instead to Alfred de Zayas Ziegler in SDA News: “I refused to apply for new job; need to stay in current post” Ziegler in application: “I’m very motivated for new job; willing to end current …
Libya Tells UN Rights Council: “Gays threaten continuation of human race”
Monday, February 13, 2012 1:05 pm Comments on Human Rights Situations, Gay rights, Human Rights Council, Human Rights Council (UNHRC), Libya, Monitoring, Press Releases, UN Officials unwatch 0 36
PRESS RELEASE Libya’s Islamist objection to gays dampers hopes of Arab Spring GENEVA, Feb. 13 – Gays threaten the continuation of the human race, Libya’s delegate told a planning meeting of the UN Human Rights Council today, reported the Geneva-based UN Watch monitoring group. It was the first …
UNESCO elects Syria to human rights committees
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 4:53 pm Comments on Human Rights Situations, Comments on UN Decisions, League of Arab States, Monitoring, Press Releases, Syria, UN Elections, UN Officials, UNESCO unwatch 0 32
PRESS RELEASE Vote slammed by UNESCO director & Canada FM GENEVA, Nov. 23 – UNESCO’s executive board, which includes the US, France, the UK and other Western democracies, unanimously elected Syria to a pair of committees – one dealing directly with human rights issues – even as the Bashar al-Assad …
Watchdog urges Canada’s McGill U. to distance itself from U.N.’s Richard Falk
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 3:51 pm Calls on the UN, Comments on Human Rights Situations, Letters, Monitoring, Petitions & Appeals, Press Releases, Richard Falk, UN Officials unwatch 0 12
PRESS RELEASE GENEVA, Nov. 8 – Following its National Post op-ed today criticizing McGill University for hosting a lecture next Monday by controversial U.N. figure Richard Falk, a Geneva-based watchdog group called on the Montreal institution to join UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, UN High Commissioner for …
Wikileaks: World Food Program told Kofi Annan of UN Hunger Expert’s “Profoundly Immoral” Actions “Harming Lives of the Hungry”
Monday, October 24, 2011 4:00 pm Calls on the UN, Calls to Action, Comments on Human Rights Situations, Jean Ziegler, Kofi Annan, Letters, Monitoring, Muammar Qaddafi Human Rights Prize, Petitions & Appeals, Press Releases, Right to Food, UN Officials unwatch 0 73
PRESS RELEASE NGO urges Ban Ki-moon, Navi Pillay and Olivier de Schutter to speak out GENEVA, October 24 — A Wikileaks cable circulated for the first time today reveals that Kofi Annan was in possession of an urgent World Food Program request to remove a UN Human Rights Council’s expert on hunger …
45 rights groups urge UN Rights Council to investigate its Gaddafi-linked officials Jean Ziegler & Najat Al-Hajjaji
Friday, October 21, 2011 4:05 pm Advisory Committee of UNHRC, Calls on the UN, Calls to Action, Comments on Human Rights Situations, Human Rights Council, Human Rights Council (UNHRC), Jean Ziegler, Monitoring, Muammar Qaddafi Human Rights Prize, Najat Al-Hajjaji, NGOs, Petitions & Appeals, Press Releases, UN Officials, UN Watch unwatch 0 39
PRESS RELEASE After working for Gaddafi’s propaganda radio, Najat Al-Hajjaji chaired UNHRC, headed UN’s Durban II racism conf & was UNHRC mercenaries expert GENEVA, October 21 — While the UN human rights office today called for an investigation into Gaddafi’s death, an international …
UN’s Richard Falk addresses UNGA today, but report shows he uses official mandate to promote 9/11 conspiracy theory
Thursday, October 20, 2011 4:20 pm Calls on the UN, Calls to Action, Comments on Human Rights Situations, Monitoring, Palestinians, Petitions & Appeals, Press Releases, Richard Falk, UN Officials, UN Speeches, UN-Israel Controversies, United Nations unwatch 0 148
PRESS RELEASE GENEVA, Oct. 20 – UN Watch today issued the following report, calling for Ban Ki-moon, UN rights chief Navi Pillay, the US and the EU to urge Richard Falk to resign. Official Capacity: How Richard Falk Misuses his UN Human Rights Council Mandate to Promote the 9/11 Conspiracy Theory Today the …
UN Should Apologize For “Legitimizing” Gaddafi with Key Posts
Thursday, October 20, 2011 4:14 pm Calls on the UN, Calls to Action, Comments on Human Rights Situations, Comments on UN Decisions, HRC, Jean Ziegler, Libya, Monitoring, Muammar Qaddafi Human Rights Prize, Petitions & Appeals, Press Releases, UN Elections, UN Honors Dictators, UN Officials, United Nations unwatch 0 20
PRESS RELEASE 45 NGOs urge UN Human Rights Council’s Jean Ziegler to resign for founding “Gaddafi Human Rights Prize” GENEVA, Oct. 20 – UN Watch today welcomed the end of the Gaddafi regime, one of the world’s most brutal violators of human rights, and called on UN chief Ban Ki-moon …
Watchdog Calls on UN Chief to Clarify Remarks Comparing Israel’s Shalit to Hamas Terrorists
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 4:23 pm Calls on the UN, Calls to Action, Comments on Human Rights Situations, Gilad Shalit, Hamas, Monitoring, Palestinians, Petitions & Appeals, Press Releases, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, UN Officials, UN-Israel Controversies unwatch 0 15
PRESS RELEASE GENEVA, Oct. 18 – A Geneva-based watchdog group called on UN chief Ban Ki-moon to clarify remarks made today that seemed to draw a moral equivalence between the imprisonment of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit and Hamas terrorists. “I am very encouraged by the prisoner exchange today after many …
