Ibrahim Khraishi, Palestinian delegate to the UNHRC GENEVA, June 27 — While Arab and Islamic states today blasted Israel at the UN Human Rights Council— in a debate held under the special agenda item against the Jewish state, a permanent fixture of every meeting—UN Watch, the first non-governmental group to …
Statement by UN Watch Item 6 General Debate, UNHRC 32nd Session Delivered by Ms. Charis Marantzidou, 27 June 2016 Thank you, Mr. President. UN Watch is deeply concerned by endemic misuse of the Universal Periodic Review mechanism by numerous countries. First, UN Watch deplores the use of the UPR process for mutual …
As the UN Human Rights Council celebrates its 10th anniversary with endless self-congratulatory speeches, UN Watch will be reporting daily on the debates of the June 2016 session. Click here for UN Watch’s assessment of the council’s performance over the past decade. Today, states at the UN Human …
