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Type: Organization

Name: UN Watch

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

UN Human Rights Council

UN Circulates NGO Resolution to Fire Richard Falk

For the first time, the United Nations has circulated as an official UN document a draft resolution calling for the firing of Richard Falk, A/HRC/23/NGO/27.UN Watch submitted the draft text in the form of a NGO written statement to the UN Human Rights ... [Published Campus Watch - 10 hours ago]

Entities: United Nations, UN Watch, Campus Watch, UN Human Rights Council

First reported 20 hours ago - Updated 20 hours ago - 1 reports

World Health Organization

Syria sends report to WHO accusing Israel of torture

In the United Nations, Syria has slammed Israel over what they described as the deterioration of health conditions in the Golan Heights.Syria, which is constantly accused of violating its own citizens’ human rights, has now accused Israel of allowing ... [Published Mideast Time - 20 hours ago]

Entities: Israel, Syria, Torture, World Health Organization

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

UN's Richard Falk Again Calls Boston Attack "Resistance" to U.S. "Military Undertakings"

UN official Richard Falk, who was condemned for blaming the Boston terrorist attack on U.S. and Israeli policies, has once again justified the bombings as a form of "resistance" that was "bound" to result from U.S. "military undertakings," in an interview ... [Published Campus Watch - May 22 2013]

Entities: UN Watch, United Nations, United States, Boston (Massachusetts, United States), Military/Armed Forces

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

N. Korean concentration camp escapee wins int'l human rights award

SEOUL, May 21 (Yonhap) -- A North Korean concentration camp escapee will receive an international human rights award for raising global awareness of atrocities taking place in the communist country, a news report said Tuesday.The Voice of America (VOA) ... [Published Yonhap News Agency - May 21 2013]

Entities: Escapee, Concentration Camp, Human Rights

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Of Course Iran Is Chairing the UN Disarmament Conference

In the parade of United Nations absurdities, here comes Iran’s four-week presidency of the UN Conference on Disarmament — an arrangement that the U.S. Mission to the UN has described as “unfortunate and inappropriate,” and Hillel Neuer of UN Watch has ... [Published Pajamas Media - May 19 2013]

Entities: United Nations, Iran, Disarmament

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 3 reports

Iran to Chair UN Disarmament Conference

The Arak IR-40 heavy water reactor in Iran. Photo: Nanking2012/Wikimedia Commons.Iran is set to chair the upcoming on Disarmament, despite the sanctions levied against the Islamic Republic for its suspected nuclear weapons program.As a result, the U.S. ... [Published Algemeiner.com - May 15 2013]

Entities: Disarmament, Iran, United Nations, UN Watch

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 8 reports

United Nations

‘Like putting Jack the Ripper in charge of a women’s shelter’: Iran to head UN conference on disarmament

Iran is to chair the United Nations’ most important disarmament conference just days after Washington imposed more sanctions on the rogue nuclear state. Iran will assume the position only weeks after blocking a major UN initiative that would have been ... [Published National Post - Top Stories - May 14 2013]

Entities: United Nations, Iran, Jack the Ripper

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

UN Watch: Cuba Defrauds HRC

Cuba committed “fraud … on a massive scale” to influence a U.N. review of its human rights record by using hundreds of “front groups” to submit comments favorable to the island, a watchdog group reported Thursday.While 454 non-governmental organizations ... [Published Miami Herald - May 14 2013]

Entities: Cuba, UN Watch, Havana, Human Rights

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

UN official blames Boston Marathon bombing on Tel Aviv

UN official blames Boston Marathon bombing on ‘Tel Aviv’(JTA) – Richard Falk, an official for the U.N. Human Rights Council, in an online commentary blamed the Boston Marathon bombing on “Tel Aviv.”“(A)s long as Tel Aviv has the compliant ear of the American ... [Published Jewish Herald-Voice - May 10 2013]

Entities: Tel Aviv, UN Watch, Boston Marathon

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 2 reports

Egyptian Activist Defends Anti-Israel Tweets

A video profile of Mona Seif explaining her nomination as a finalist for the 2013 Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders.An Egyptian activist issued a defiant response Thursday to critics who argue that her anti-Israel stance should disqualify ... [Published New York Times - May 02 2013]

Entities: Ahdaf Soueif, Anti-Israel, Martin Ennals, Human Rights, Wael Khalil

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 3 reports

Human Rights Watch selects proponent of terrorism as finalist for award

Several Washington-based human rights groups are facing criticism for awarding two radical Egyptian Islamists who have endorsed terrorism and expressed hostility toward Israel. Human Rights Watch (HRW) came under fire earlier this week after it selected ... [Published Washington Times - May 01 2013]

Entities: Martin Ennals, Human Rights Watch, Terrorism, Israel

First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 26 2013 - 1 reports

Israel supporters use Boston bombing to call for firing of UN Rapporteur

In recent days, news reports have accused Richard Falk, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, of blaming the Boston marathon attack on Israel and the US. Some reports even claim that he had said the victims deserved ... [Published Mondoweiss - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: UN Watch, Boston (Massachusetts, United States), Bombing

Quotes

"Richard Falk is disgracing the United Nations and its human rights system," said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch. "Country mandates are discontinued all the time. While it's true that no independent expert has ever been fired during his term, Falk is an exceptional case that calls for special measures."

UN's Richard Falk Again Calls Boston Attack "Resistance" to U.S. "Military Undertakings" [Published Campus Watch - May 22 2013]

레온 샐티엘 유엔워치 부국장은 "도덕용기상은 압제정권에 용감하게 맞서 싸우는 인사를 격려하기 위해 수여하는 상'이라며 유엔 북한 인권조사위원회의 출범과 함께 북한 인권의 심각성을 국제사회에 알린 신씨가 상을 받게 된 것은 의미 있는 일이라고 강조했다."

N. Korean concentration camp escapee wins int'l human rights award [Published Korea Times - May 21 2013]

"Falk’s unhinged diatribes against the U S and Israel are well-known," Harris added. "He should have been barred, five years ago, from being appointed the Human Rights Council’s special rapporteur on the Palestinians, but this reveals precisely what is wrong with the UN system."

AJC Urges Condemnation of UN Official Richard Falk for Boston Terror Slander [Published American Jewish Committee - May 15 2013]

Falk expanded on that infuriating thought last week by saying of the U S , "engaging in military undertakings around the world is bound to produce some kinds of resistance, and that resistance, as in the Boston incident, can assume a pathological form."

U.S. Has to Push UN Human Rights Council to Can Hate-Monger Richard Falk [Published Campus Watch - May 15 2013]

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Blogs

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Of Course Iran Is Chairing the UN Disarmament C... [Published Pajamas Media - May 19 2013] In the parade of United Nations absurdities, here comes Iran’s four-week presidency of the UN Conference on Disarmament — an arrangement that the U.S. Mission to the UN has described as “unfortunate and inappropriate,” and Hillel Neuer of UN Watch has ...
CRAZY!! IRAN Will Be Chairing the UN Conference... [Published YID With LID - May 14 2013] With each passing day, the United Nations becomes more irrelevant to anyone outside the progressive movement and/or the Obama Administration. The latest example of the failure of this institution is the news tha Iran will chair the United Nations’ ...
U.N. Disarmament Conference Chaired by Iran [Published Breitbart Feed - May 13 2013] According to U.N. Watch , the U.N. Disarmament Conference which began on May 13 is being chaired by Iran. U.N. Watch executive director Hillel Neuer declared, "This is like putting Jack the Ripper in charge of a women's shelter." The U.N. is claiming ...
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Why is Human Rights Watch Rewarding Terrorism (... [Published YID With LID - May 02 2013] Human Rights Watch (HRW) a supposed "Human Rights" Group is famous for inventing and/or twistingfacts to slander Israel and at times the United States. They have a simple strategy, Advocacy not Accuracy . HRW is famous for inventing and/or twisting ...

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