The ILO issued a deeply flawed, misleading and misrepresentative report on the Palestinian territories. Last month, at the 103rd session of the International Labour Conference, the International Labour Organization (ILO), the UN agency dealing with labor issues, presented their 2014 report on “The situation of …
A Syrian-backed declaration on the “right to peace” is what a UN working group is seeking to draft during a week-long meeting at the UN Human Rights Council which opened yesterday in Geneva. While all 193 UN member states can attend the sessions of the working group, only some 30 are …
Does it make sense that these Council Members are the UN’s guardians of women’s rights? UN Watch testimony before the UN Human Rights Council 26th Session, delivered by Erica Behrens under Agenda Item 2, June 10, 2014. UN Watch thanks the High Commissioner for her work, and we extend to her our best wishes. …
PRESS RELEASE Ban Ki-moon Should Apologize to Families & Reopen Investigation EXPERT REPUDIATES U.N. REPORT, SAYS WORLD BODY IS CULPABLE Geneva, Oct. 24– The U.N. needs to reopen its 2011 investigation into Haiti’s cholera epidemic in light of new evidence from one of the investigating scientists that …
The U.N. agency charged with organizing the upcoming Durban II racism conference has quietly altered the title of its “Draft Outcome Document” to read “Different sections of compilation of proposals,” in an apparent bid to downplay draft proposals that revive the hateful rhetoric that …
Click above to see UN Watch’s Hillel Neuer interviewed on CTV’s “Canada AM” over the UN’s $23 million ceiling art for its new Human Rights Council chamber, and quoted by FOX News “Special Report with Brit Hume”. Transcripts below. Al Jazeera video clip coming soon. FOX …
Click above to see UN Watch’s Hillel Neuer interviewed on CTV’s “Canada AM” over the UN’s $23 million ceiling art for its new Human Rights Council chamber, and quoted by FOX News “Special Report with Brit Hume”. Transcripts below. Al Jazeera video clip coming soon. FOX …
UN Watch welcomed the new clarification issued today by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour, in response to its Jan. 28, 2008 letter protesting her endorsement of the Arab Charter on Human Rights, which contains anti-Semitic provisions. “Last week the High Commissioner endorsed the Arab …
“Until Mr. Ban and Ms. Arbour take action, Jean Ziegler’s unethical conduct will cast a shadow upon the reputation and integrity of all the independent experts” — Hillel Neuer, UN Watch Geneva, Nov. 13, 2007 — The U.N. expressed “regret” after one of its officials allowed …
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 …
