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UN Watch

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:

Hebron Vote: UNESCO Denies Biblical Christian & Jewish Heritage

GENEVA – UN Watch, an independent non-governmental organization based in Geneva, condemned the “cynical, divisive, and politicized hijacking of UNESCO’s mission to protect world cultural heritage” by Arab states, after the agency’s 21-nation world heritage committee voted 12-3, with 6 abstentions, to accept a Palestinian motion registering the Biblical city of Hebron—including the Cave of the Patriarchs which is revered as the burial place of Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Leah, Jacob and Rebecca—as a Palestinian heritage site endangered by Israel. The resolution was introduced by Lebanon, Kuwait, and Tunisia.
- Friday, July 7, 2017


U.N. defends election of Saudi Arabia to rights council

GENEVA, The U.N. today said that questioning Saudi Arabia’s membership on the Human Rights Council is a “distraction,” a “gross oversimplification,” and an “attempt to stigmatize.”
- Friday, June 9, 2017

UNRWA fakes Gaza girl campaign with image of bombed-out Damascus

GENEVA – UN Watch today demanded that UNRWA chief Pierre Krahenbuhl apologize for using images of a girl from a bombed-out Syrian building as part of a global campaign to raise money for the organization by pretending the girl is a Gaza victim of Israeli actions.
- Friday, June 2, 2017

NGO: U.N. gave China names of rights activists

GENEVA, May 24, 2017 The U.N. human rights office dangerously handed over to China the names of four human rights activists slated to attend a Human Rights Council session, and has a practice of doing so, alleges Geneva-based NGO UN Watch, in a letter of complaint sent today to U.N. human rights chief Zeid Hussein.
- Wednesday, May 24, 2017

U.N. elects genocidal Sudan Vice-Chair of Committee on NGOs

GENEVA – The Geneva-based human rights group UN Watch condemned this morning’s election of Sudan as Vice-Chair of the U.N. committee that accredits and oversees the work of non-governmental human rights groups at the world body, noting that the Khartoum regime persecutes human rights activists, while its leader, Omar al-Bashir, remains wanted for genocide at the International Criminal Court.
- Monday, May 22, 2017



Rights group urges UK to expel Richard Falk, condemned by UK 3 times for antisemitism

GENEVA-- The Geneva-based human rights organization UN Watch, which is accredited by the United Nations as a non-governmental organization in special consultative status with a mandate to monitor the world body’s adherence to the principles of its Charter, today sent the following letter to UK Prime Minister Theresa May, urging her government to consider expelling disgraced ex-UN official Richard Falk, whom it has officially condemned three times for antisemitism.
- Monday, March 20, 2017


Walk of shame: Sweden’s “first feminist government” don hijabs in Iran

GENEVA, Feb. 13, 2017 -- In a statement that has gone viral on Twitter and Facebook, UN Watch, a non-governmental human rights NGO in Geneva, expressed disappointment that Sweden's self-declared "first feminist government in the world" sacrificed its principles and betrayed the rights of Iranian women as Trade Minister Ann Linde and other female members walked before Iranian President Rouhani on Saturday wearing Hijabs, Chadors, and long coats, in deference to Iran's oppressive and unjust modesty laws which make the Hijab compulsory — despite Stockholm's promise to promote "a gender equality perspective" internationally, and to adopt a "feminist foreign policy" in which "equality between women and men is a fundamental aim."
- Monday, February 13, 2017

Time to Take Action on the UN is Now

U.S. contributions to the UN for 2015 = $9,917,000,000 Ask: Why is the U.S. still on the UN Human Rights Council? Ask: Why has Congress not adopted a single bill stopping any funding to the UN since Security Council 2334?
- Thursday, February 9, 2017



Iran is "state sponsor of terrorism," 11 Arab countries tell UN

GENEVA, Nov. 14 -- UN Watch welcomed a letter by 11 Arab countries to the UN which accuses Iran of being "a State sponsor of terrorism" throughout the entire Middle East, and of only increasing "aggression in the region and the continuation of support for terrorist groups" since the signing of the nuclear deal. See full text below.
- Monday, November 14, 2016


U.N. Clash: Syria, Russia, Venezuela Fail to Silence Victim Testimony

GENEVA— Prominent Syrian activist and former political prisoner Mohamad Kamal Allabwani took the floor at the U.N. Human Rights Council this morning to decry the atrocities committed against his people by the Assad regime and its allies. He was invited by Geneva-based human rights organization UN Watch.
- Monday, September 19, 2016


UN chief should protest Turkey's arrest of journalist who addressed UN

GENEVA, UN chief Ban Ki-moon and human rights commissioner Zeid should urgently protest Turkey's arrest today of journalist and human rights defender Orhan Kemal Cengiz, a possible act of reprisal for his human rights advocacy including his recent visit to the UN Human Rights Council to testify about human rights violations by the Turkish government, said UN Watch, a Geneva based non-governmental human rights group.
- Thursday, July 21, 2016

UN Rights Chief Must Oppose Erdogan's Purge of Judges, Defend Rule of Law

GENEVA, — A Geneva-based human rights group today called on the UN's top human rights official and the world body's experts on arbitrary detention and independence of judges to speak out against Turkish President Erdogan's "unprecendented" purge of thousands of judges and other officials.
- Monday, July 18, 2016

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