UN Watch founder Morris B. Abram, expert member of the United Nations Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, addressing the world body on January 15, 1964, when the world body voted to endorse Abram’s draft of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms …
August 12, 2019, GENEVA — The Swiss-based human rights group UN Watch today called on European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and UN human rights commissioner Michelle Bachelet to support a call for an emergency session of the 47-nation UN Human Rights Council into “alarming brutality …
Below are the signatures of more than 100 NGOs that endorsed our Joint Appeal to Defend NGO Rights and to Protest China’s Anti-Muslim Racism Hillel C. Neuer, Executive Director, United Nations Watch, Switzerland Souad Talsi MBE, Founder, Al-Hasaniya Moroccan Women’s Project, United Kingdom Mia …
GENEVA, July 31, 2019 — International human rights group UN Watch is demanding that UNRWA chief Pierre Krähenbühl resign from his post, in wake of an internal UN ethics report documenting credible and corroborated allegations of sexual misconduct, nepotism and corruption by the former Red Cross …
On June 25, 2019, Miss Iraq Sarah Idan—recently designated as an Ambassador for Peace by UN Watch, which invited her to the United Nations—took the floor at the United Nations to support peace with Israel. Following two speeches to the UN’s highest human rights body, the Iraqi Parliament’s Security and …
UN Watch prepared the following written submission, which was circulated as an official UN document during the 41st Session of the UN Human Rights Council: Time to reassess the Universal Periodic Review Although the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) was intended to ensure that powerful states which are able to avoid …
China Fails to Stop Hillel Neuer Defending Muslims To my Muslim friends celebrating worldwide, Ramadan Mubarak. Let this be a time to come together for reflection, spiritual growth and peace.When I spoke out at the UNHRC for 1 million Muslim Uighurs being detained by China, the Communist regime's delegates …
Asia Bibi, the Christian mother of five sentenced to death by Pakistan for blasphemy, imprisoned for nine years, is finally out of Pakistan, where baying mobs of Jihadists tried to kill her, and thus fully free. We salute Canada for having the courage to save her. Bravo to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Foreign …
Trending UN Watch tweets from this past week: UN Watch discovers that the UN Women’s Rights Commission appoints Iran to judge complaints of women’s rights violations; U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) applauds UN Watch’s work advocating for jailed Cuban activist Eduardo Cardet; and UN Watch’s …
UN Watch has announced that its 2019 Moral Courage Award will go to Stephen Harper, who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015. The award will be presented at the 2019 UN Watch Annual Gala Dinner, on June 13, 2019, in Geneva, Switzerland. Click here to order tickets now. At the United …
