UN Watch Blog 5/14/2008 UN Human Rights Council’s “Pretty Packed Schedule” Has No Time for Myanmar’s Starving Victims
At the initiative of the Cuban government, the UN Human Rights Council will convene an emergency “special session” to address rising food prices. But if “the right to food” were really their concern, why are council members failing to hold an emergency session on Myanmar’s unconscionable denial of that right for millions of its starving, post-cyclone citizens?[more]
Urge the Security Council to rescind Iran's UN membership.
Issue 174 • April 30, 2008
UN Watch Testifies Before UN Human Rights Council on Forgotten Refugees
The history of Palestinian refugees deserves international attention. So does the history of one million Jewish refugees from the Arab-Israel conflict. Yet the UN has devoted countless resolutions and debates to only one side of this story, completely ignoring the other. For the first time ever in the UN Human Rights Council, at its recently concluded session, the suffering of Jewish refugees from Arab lands was also placed on the international agenda. Shortly thereafter, the U.S. Congress adopted a historic resolution recognizing that all victims of the conflict must be treated equally.
