PRESS RELEASE International campaign of 40 MPs & NGOs protest candidacy Coalition from 19 countries including US, France, UK, Canada, Switzerland, Bahrain, Guinea, Kenya, Morocco,
PRESS RELEASE Concerted U.N. speeches slam Chavez bid for rights council seat; dictatorships urged “striking NGO statement from the record” Venezuelan banker & ex-political prisoner
PRESS RELEASE Syrian & North Korean Torture Victims Also to Testify Before U.N. Human Rights Council GENEVA, June 25 – Venezuela’s most-wanted man will appear
PRESS RELEASE GENEVA, May 25, 2012 – Top Chinese dissident Dr. Yang Jianli was awarded the 2012 Morris B. Abram Human Rights Award by UN
PRESS RELEASE APPEAL SENT TO TOP UN OFFICIALS & EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT GENEVA, Dec. 29 – The fate of Egyptian blogger Maikel Nabil hangs in the
PRESS RELEASE Dr. Massouda Jalal, center, and fellow Afghan activists, with Arielle Herzog Hadida, UN Watch Director of Special Projects, and UN Watch intern Paul
PRESS RELEASE GENEVA, Oct. 7 – As Venezuela this afternoon defended its human rights record before a mandatory examination by the UN Human Rights Council
PRESS RELEASE Draft UNGA resolutions sent to SG Ban Ki-moon and rights chief Navi Pillay on human rights situations in China, Cuba, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi
Leading Dissidents Meet Inside the UN, Challenge World Leaders on Rights Abuses NEW YORK, Sept. 21, 2011 – With the eyes of the world focused
PRESS RELEASE GENEVA – An international coalition of human rights and church relief organizations are urging the UN’s 47-member Human Rights Council to “end its
The following op-ed about jailed Chinese dissident Dr. Wang Binghzhang—written by Cambridge University law student Gabriel Latner, a recent intern with UN Watch—appears in today’s
PRESS RELEASE Source: Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy (http://www.genevasummit.org) Date: 9 March 2011 GENEVA – The Iranian lawyer of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the 43
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