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UN Watch is a Geneva-based human rights organization founded in 1993 to monitor UN compliance with the principles of its Charter. It is accredited as a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in Special Consultative Status to the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and as an Associate NGO to the UN Department of Public Information (DPI).

Most Recent Articles by UN Watch:




China joins U.N. human rights panel, sparking protest

GENEVA -- China was appointed on Wednesday to a United Nations Human Rights Council panel where it will play a key role in picking the world body’s human rights investigators — including global monitors on freedom of speech, health, enforced disappearances, and arbitrary detention — in a move that has sparked protest by international human rights activists.
- Saturday, April 4, 2020


UN Watch Demands UNRWA Chief Resign

UNRWA chief Pierre KrähenbühlGENEVA— 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 official and his inner circle. Top officials are now resigning from UNRWA, the UN relief agency for Palestinians, or being forced out. Facing questioning from UN investigators, Deputy Commissioner-General Sandra Mitchell and Chief of Staff Hakam Shahwan quit earlier this month. Deputy Head of Human Resources Nadine Khaddoura, implicated in nepotistic appointments, "had to be escorted from her office under vociferous protest" when confronted with the results of the UN investigations, reports Ian Williams.
- Wednesday, July 31, 2019

China, Russia, Nicaragua, Bangladesh Win Seats On UN Organ Overseeing Human Rights

China, Russia, Nicaragua, Bangladesh Win Seats On UN Organ Overseeing Human RightsGENEVA -- UN Watch, a Geneva-based non-governmental organization, condemned the recent election of serial human rights abusers China, Russia, Nicaragua and Bangladesh to the 54-nation Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), a top UN body that regulates human rights groups, oversees the UN women’s rights commission, and adopts resolutions on a vast array of global issues ranging from internet freedom to the treatment of prisoners.
- Thursday, June 20, 2019

WHO Singles Out Israel As Violator of Health Rights At Annual Meeting

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (above), Director-General of the World Health Organization, blames Israel for violating the health rights of Palestinians and Syrians in the Golan in a report which was adopted by the World Health Assembly on May 22, 2019.
GENEVA, May 22, 2019 -- The annual assembly of the UN's World Health Organization today voted 96 to 11 for a resolution, co-sponsored by the Arab bloc and the Palestinian delegation, that singled out Israel over "Health conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory, including east Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan."
- Thursday, May 23, 2019




U.N. to condemn Israel 9 times

GENEVA – The U.N. General Assembly will condemn Israel nine times today, "part of its annual ritual of enacting 20 Arab-sponsored resolutions singling out the Jewish state, and making no mention of Hamas stabbings, shootings or vehicular attacks against Israelis," said Hillel Neuer, executive director of the Geneva-based monitoring group UN Watch. Click here for list of 9 resolutions.
- Sunday, November 12, 2017

U.S. should deport Rutgers professor who represented Syria, abetted genocide

GENEVA – An international human rights group today called on Rutgers University to fire Mazen Adi, a professor on war crimes law, on grounds that as a Syrian diplomat and legal advisor he justified the war crimes of the genocidal Assad regime. UN Watch, an independent non-governmental monitoring group based in Geneva, also called on the U.S. to deport Mr. Adi, whose identity was first exposed by the Algemeiner newspaper yesterday.
- Monday, November 6, 2017

Scandal: Qatar, Congo, Pakistan set to join U.N.’s top rights body; UN Watch urges ‘No’ votes

GENEVA,– Despite a recent pledge by a Dutch-led coalition of 47 nations, today’s election for 15 seats on the U.N.’s highest human rights body will install up to 10 more non-democracies in a mostly uncontested race, which may prompt U.S. ambassador Nikki Haley to determine that her June warning before the council—to stop electing “the world’s worst human rights offenders”—has been flouted.
- Monday, October 16, 2017



Wife of Jailed Saudi Blogger to Address U.N. Rights Council With Saudi Ambassador Present

GENEVA — The wife of jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi—the world's most famous political prisoner—will address the United Nations for the first time in a Human Rights Council speech on Tuesday that will take place in the presence of Ambassador Abdulaziz Al-Wasil, the representative of Saudi Arabia, whose government controversially sits on the 47-nation body.
- Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Russia gave $50,000 to UN expert who wrote report calling Russia a victim

GENEVA -- After an investigator of the U.N. human rights council presented a report slamming the U.S. and EU for imposing sanctions on Russia, which he said amounted to "unilateral coercive measures," a Geneva-based watchdog group took the floor to challenge the Special Rapporteur, former Algerian ambassador Idriss Jazairy, on the ethics of his receiving $50,000 from Russia last year for his mandate, as disclosed in a recent U.N. report.
- Thursday, September 14, 2017

Rights Activists Urge Democracies to Expel Maduro from UNHRC

GENEVA - A cross-regional coalition of 12 human rights activists from Latin America, the U.S. and Europe, today called on the U.N Human Rights Council to convene an urgent meeting to finally suspend the membership of Venezuela, which was re-elected in 2015.
- Monday, September 4, 2017

U.N. Must Hold Urgent Session on Venezuela Amid Midnight Arrest of Opposition Leaders

GENEVA – Hours after the Venezuelan police’s midnight arrest of pro-democracy leader Leopoldo Lopez and Caracas mayor Antonio Ledezma, the Geneva-based human rights group UN Watch today called on U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley, UN chief Antonio Guterres and human rights commissioner Zeid Al-Hussein to support an emergency session of the 47-nation UN Human Rights Council to address the dire situation of human rights in Venezuela.
- Tuesday, August 1, 2017

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