Joseph A. Klein, CFP United Nations Columnist


Most Recent Articles by Joseph A. Klein, CFP United Nations Columnist:

The United Nations has sunk to a new low in its animus against Israel

Sadly, Russia’s abuse of its presidency of the Security Council by making a mockery of the truth demonstrates that such a day of reckoning is far off if it ever happens at all.

Mr. Blinken should show his disdain for Russia’s horrendous actions, including its illegal detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich

The Chinese regime is counting on the success of its diplomatic strategy to render the Taiwanese people invisible and their aspirations for autonomy illegitimate in the eyes of the international community.

The strong words of support for equality of women and girls by senior UN officials ring a bit hollow

But continued military aid to Ukraine should not be a blank check

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, who is responsible for the UN Human Rights Council, one of the most distorted and anti-moral bodies in the world, is the last one who can teach Israel what democracy is

Millions of Afghans are on the verge of starvation or freezing to death during the brutal winter in Afghanistan. Their very lives are on the line while the Taliban remains stuck in the 13th century and the UN dithers

UN Security Council Meets in Emergency Session over nothing

Governments and inter-governmental organizations should stay out of deciding what is “the right information” for the rest of us

International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People: UN bureaucracy’s pro-Palestinian stance and its bias against Israel

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres supported the demand for “loss and damage” payments to developing countries as a matter of “climate justice.”

Zeroing in so quickly, publicly, and critically on Elon Musk, who is just getting his feet wet as the new owner of Twitter, was a bad idea


Eric Tistounet has appeared to be obsessed with silencing UN Watch’s voice and with what looks like his personal vendetta against UN Watch’s executive director, Hillel Neuer

So ended another day “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”

America’s adversaries see a weak president when it comes to foreign policy and are acting accordingly. Nothing in President Biden’s speech to the UN General Assembly has changed that perception

Secretary General Guterres managed to skip over entirely the UN’s internal structural problems, including a bloated, inefficient bureaucracy and its dysfunctional Human Rights Council that includes amongst its members some of the world’s worst human

The Human Rights Council has long since lost all credibility as it coddles autocratic member states, while regularly seeking to delegitimize Israel

The answer to preventing the United States-Mexico border from continuing as “the deadliest land crossing in the world” is to firmly close the border to illegal immigrants

You can’t just cut the global economy’s umbilical cord to fossil fuels immediately without producing even more misery

Expanding the powers of WHO and its Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, is a recipe for further globalist erosion of U.S. national sovereignty and ceding more economic advantage to China

United Nations has not lived up to the human rights principles in its own Supplier Code of Conduct, much less the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Israel was barred from presenting incontrovertible video evidence to the Security Council that the Palestinians were solely responsible for instigating the recent violence at and around the Temple Mount

As the United Nations’ pro-Palestinian bias demonstrates, the globalist institution still has a long way to go before it can claim to speak with any genuine moral authority on critical human rights issues

President Zelenskyy called for fundamental reform of the UN’s global security system. Referring to Russia’s ability to block any binding action by the Security Council to address Russia’s aggression

If Putin ignores the resolution as expected and mounts even more vicious attacks against Ukrainian civilians, the next step must be a resolution kicking Russia out of the United Nations altogether

In any case, nothing that the ICC can do will save the hundreds of Ukrainian civilians being slaughtered by Putin’s brutal war machine

Putin pulled the trigger for his full-scale invasion as the United Nations Security Council was holding its second emergency session this week on the Ukraine crisis