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UN Watch Condemns Appointment of Eritrea as Chair of UN Human Rights Council Social Forum: “Inmates Running the Asylum”

GENEVA, Aug. 6, 2026 — UN Watch today strongly condemned the appointment of the Eritrean regime as Chair of the United Nations Human Rights Council’s 2026 Social Forum, calling the decision “a ...
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Hillel Neuer on ILTV: “UNRWA Is Perpetuating the Conflict”

UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer appeared on ILTV with Calev Ben-David to discuss Israel's Supreme Court challenge to ...
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Dismantled: Ken Roth’s Latest Israel Conspiracy Theory on Ceuta

In the midst of a massive migrant surge into Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta, former Human Rights Watch chief Kenneth ...
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Ken Roth and UN Watch Oppose Guterres’ Quiet Rush to Renew Volker Türk as UN Rights Chief

In a quiet move preempting any debate, Secretary-General António Guterres is asking the UN General Assembly to decide as ...
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German Report Attacks UN Watch For “Significantly Influencing International and German Discourse on UNRWA”

A new 80-page report by Germany’s far-left Rosa Luxemburg Foundation—despite containing numerous falsehoods about UN Watch—acknowledges our extraordinary ...
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Former Hostage Confronts U.N. Expert Who Denied Sexual Violence Against Israelis

Reem Alsalem — the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women — has repeatedly minimized or dismissed Hamas atrocities committed on October 7. As recently as April 2026, she dismissed allegations ...
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UN Watch Legal Rebuttal: Disproving the Pillay Commission’s Charge That Israel Deliberately Targets Palestinian Children

On June 23, 2026, the Pillay Commission submitted to the UN Human Rights Council a 94-page conference room paper titled “The essence of childhood has been destroyed”: Israel’s deliberate targeting of ...
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Appeals Court Keeps Sanctions on Francesca Albanese in Force, Signals Major Weakness in Her Case

Geneva, June 16, 2026 — A U.S. federal appeals court has allowed sanctions against UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese to remain in force while her legal challenge proceeds, delivering what UN ...
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UN Watch Welcomes UNRWA Firing of 70 Hamas-Linked Staff in Gaza, Calls for Agency’s Complete Shutdown

Geneva, June 12, 2026 — UN Watch welcomes today’s decision by UNRWA’s acting chief Christian Saunders to terminate the employment of 70 staff members in Gaza with immediate effect over their ties to ...
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Legal Analysis of the Pillay Commission’s June 2026 Report to the Human Rights Council

Following is a legal analysis of the Pillay Commission of Inquiry’s June 2026 report to the UN Human Rights Council. The Human Rights Council’s Pillay Commission on Israel, now headed by Srinivasan ...
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Report: U.N. “experts” accepted funding from China, Russia, Qatar, pushed their interests

In November 2006, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan described the system of Special Procedures as “the crown jewel of the UN human rights system.” Nearly two decades later, that jewel has lost much of ...
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UN Watch Exposes Systemic Corruption at UN Human Rights Council in New Report

GENEVA, May 26, 2026 — UN Watch today released “From Watchdogs to Ideologues,” a 104-page investigation finding that the United Nations’ top human rights experts have abandoned the role of independent ...