UN Watch in the News

 
“Russia believes the fall of Assad would eliminate its closest ally in the Middle East . . . (would mean) an end to its Mediterranean port, and would signal a blow to Russian prestige and its strategic influence worldwide,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of the Geneva-based monitoring group UN Watch. —Toronto Star, Jan. 31, 2012.

Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of the Geneva-based monitoring group 'UN Watch' said "it's time for Moscow to understand that not even the Russian winter can freeze Syria's Arab Spring. "Instead of its increasingly futile effort to shield the doomed Assad regime, Russia would do better to prepare the dictator's Moscow asylum, something he will need sooner rather than later." —Kuna, Jan. 31, 2012.

Selon l'ONG UN Watch, basée à Genève, l'Unesco se prépare à exclure la Syrie de ses comités en charge des droits de l'homme. Une première dans l'histoire de l'agence onusienne. —La Tribune de Genève, Jan. 30, 2012.

 
Or selon UNWatch, M. De Schutter semble précisément suivre fidèlement la «ligne Ziegler», en refusant de mettre la lumière sur des pays où la faim sévit gravement, comme le Burundi, l’Ethiopie, le Kenya, la Somalie, le Soudan et le Zimbabwe. –Les Observateurs, Jan. 29,2012.

"Canada has been on the forefront of most worthwhile initiatives to keep gross violators accountable", Hillel Neuer said. —Front cover of Canada’s National Post, Jan. 26, 2012.

"U.N. Watch, a Geneva-based NGO, diplomats and others said Wednesday that a growing group of countries — western and Arab — want to unseat Syria from the Committee on Conventions and Recommendations. The committee deals with multiple issues, but has a strong human rights component.—Associated Press & The Washington Post, Jan. 25, 2012.

   

"UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer said regimes like that in Syria often use membership on such boards to boost their own legitimacy, particularly within their countries.
Canada's involvement in the effort to censure Syria sends a strong signal, Neuer added, and shows the government is determined not to let the UN be used for propaganda or undermined by human rights violators." —The Vancouver Sun, Jan. 25, 2012.

"'If Maikel Nabil perishes, so does the dream of a free Egypt,' said Hillel Neuer, executive director of the Geneva-based U.N. Watch, after the blogger went on hunger strike."—Al Arabiya News, Jan. 25, 2012.

"Une pétition a été lancée à la mi-décembre par l'ONG UN Watch. Selon celle-ci, une quinzaine de pays, dont les États-Unis, la France, la Grande-Bretagne et le Qatar se sont mobilisés pour tenter de revenir sur la décision du 11 novembre et exclure Damas des deux comités concernés." —Le Figaro, Jan. 25, 2012.

"Geneva-based U.N. Watch, diplomats and others said Wednesday that a growing group of countries—Western and Arab—want to unseat Syria from the Committee on Conventions and Recommendations. The committee deals with multiple issues, but has a strong human-rights component." —The Wall Street Journal, Jan. 25, 2012.

"“What is shocking is how UNESCO ever decided in the first place to legitimize the regime of Syrian President Bashar al- Assad -- which is shooting its own people in cold blood -- by elevating it to a committee that judges human-rights issues on a global scale,” Hillel Neuer, executive director of Geneva-based human-rights monitoring group UN Watch, said in an e-mailed statement today."—Bloomberg, Jan. 25, 2012.

         

"If Michael Nabil perishes, so does the dream of a free Egypt," said Hillel Neuer, executive director of the Geneva-based UN Watch, after the blogger went on hunger strike."—Agence France Presse, Jan. 21, 2012.

“Recalling that the Syrian regime “committed crimes against humanity, including the murder of 5,000 of its citizens, the torturing of children and rape,” the Geneva-based human rights group UN Watch is leading the campaign to remove the Syrian regime from the posts. It has galvanized support from across the spectrum, with 55 parliamentarians, religious groups and human rights activists signing an appeal.”—Jerusalem Post, Jan. 12, 2012.

"Meanwhile, U.N. Watch applauded the UK for announcing Friday that it will act with other countries to expel Syria from two UNESCO human rights committees, as the government disclosed in an email sent Friday to the Geneva-based human rights group, which heads a campaign of 60 MPs and rights activists to remove the Assad regime from the global posts.” —Al Arabiya News, Jan. 6, 2012.

"It never made any sense that only two months ago a regime that was and is enforcing a brutal crackdown on legitimate and peaceful calls for democracy could be elected to a U.N. body involved in promoting human rights, our campaign shows that without oversight of the U.N. by outside monitoring groups, the default switch at the world body can so often be oblivious to what is happening on the ground," Neuer told Fox News." —Fox News, Jan. 6, 2012.

“The radical Islamist organization has merely recognized the obvious: that after Israel in 2005 dismantled its military administration in Gaza, forcibly evicted all Israeli residents and withdrew every last soldier, Israel no longer occupies the territory by any legal definition or other sense of the term.”—Jerusalem Post, Jan. 4, 2012.

"Led by a former Sudanese general who himself has a highly questionable human rights record, the Arab League's peace initiative has proven to be toothless with the Assad regime continuing to kill innocent civilians," said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch in a press release.
"The UN Security Council is the only body that can have the International Criminal Court launch an investigation because Syria signed but never ratified the court's founding Rome Statute." —Kuna, Jan. 4, 2012.

"Nabil’s case spurred international reactions. On 29 December, a statement of appeal coordinated by the UN Watch organisation, signed by representatives of 30 human rights groups, was sent to top UN officials and Egyptian government, condemning the detention of Nabil by military authorities and calling for his release." —Ahram online, Dec. 30, 2011.