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data-file-height="218" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data note">1993<sup id="cite_ref-AboutUs_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AboutUs-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Type</th><td class="infobox-data">Non-governmental organization<sup id="cite_ref-AboutUs_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AboutUs-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Location</th><td class="infobox-data label"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Geneva" title="Geneva">Geneva</a>, Switzerland<sup id="cite_ref-AboutUs_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AboutUs-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Fields</th><td class="infobox-data">UN monitoring, human rights advocacy</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Key people</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Alfred_H._Moses" title="Alfred H. Moses">Alfred H. Moses</a>, <i>Chair</i>;<sup id="cite_ref-AboutUs_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AboutUs-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /><a href="/wiki/Per_Ahlmark" title="Per Ahlmark">Per Ahlmark</a>, David A. Harris, <i>Co-Chairs</i>;<sup id="cite_ref-AboutUs_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AboutUs-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /><a href="/wiki/Hillel_Neuer" title="Hillel Neuer">Hillel Neuer</a>, <i>Executive Director</i><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /><a href="/wiki/Morris_B._Abram" title="Morris B. Abram">Morris B. Abram</a>, <i>Founder</i><sup id="cite_ref-founder_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-founder-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.unwatch.org">www<wbr />.unwatch<wbr />.org</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>UN Watch</b> is a Geneva-based <a href="/wiki/Non-governmental_organization" title="Non-governmental organization">non-governmental organization</a> (NGO) whose stated mission is "to monitor the performance of the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a> by the yardstick of <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Charter" class="mw-redirect" title="United Nations Charter">its own Charter</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-AboutUs_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AboutUs-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is an accredited NGO in Special Consultative Status to the UN <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Economic_and_Social_Council" title="United Nations Economic and Social Council">Economic and Social Council</a> and an Associate NGO to the UN <a href="/wiki/Department_of_Public_Information" class="mw-redirect" title="Department of Public Information">Department of Public Information</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Agence_France-Presse" title="Agence France-Presse">Agence France-Presse</a> has described UN Watch as "a lobby group with strong ties to Israel".<sup id="cite_ref-GazaAFP_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GazaAFP-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The organisation has been active in denouncing <a href="/wiki/Human_rights" title="Human rights">human rights</a> abuses worldwide, for instance in the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo" title="Democratic Republic of the Congo">Democratic Republic of the Congo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Darfur" title="Darfur">Darfur</a>, China, Cuba, Russia and Venezuela, often using its allotted time at the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Human_Rights_Council" title="United Nations Human Rights Council">UNHRC</a> to allow for <a href="/wiki/Dissidents" class="mw-redirect" title="Dissidents">dissidents</a> and <a href="/wiki/Human_rights_activists" class="mw-redirect" title="Human rights activists">human rights activists</a> to speak. Primarily, UN Watch denounces what it views as <a href="/wiki/Israel_and_the_United_Nations" title="Israel and the United Nations">anti-Israel</a> sentiment at the UN and UN-sponsored events.<sup id="cite_ref-jewishtimes.com_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jewishtimes.com-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-jta.org_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jta.org-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Founding">Founding</h2></div> <p>UN Watch was founded in 1993 under the chairmanship of <a href="/wiki/Morris_B._Abram" title="Morris B. Abram">Morris B. Abram</a>. Abram served as the Chairman of the <a href="/wiki/United_Negro_College_Fund" class="mw-redirect" title="United Negro College Fund">United Negro College Fund</a> and President of <a href="/wiki/Brandeis_University" title="Brandeis University">Brandeis University</a>. Abram was active in community affairs as President of the <a href="/wiki/American_Jewish_Committee" title="American Jewish Committee">American Jewish Committee</a> (1963–1968); Chairman of the <a href="/wiki/National_Coalition_Supporting_Soviet_Jewry" title="National Coalition Supporting Soviet Jewry">National Coalition Supporting Soviet Jewry</a> (1983–1988); and Chairman of the <a href="/wiki/Conference_of_Presidents_of_Major_American_Jewish_Organizations" title="Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations">Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations</a> (1986–1989).<sup id="cite_ref-founder_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-founder-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Abram supported the UN as an institution. In 1999, Abram delivered a speech to the U.S. Congress on the subject of the treatment of Israel by the United Nations in which he said "UN Watch categorically supports the UN as an indispensable institution. The US should pay its past dues to the UN as a matter of national honor and in recognition of the UN's importance. In spite of the UN's flaws, it is inconceivable that the US withhold support from the only truly global organization in such an interdependent world."<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-abram1999_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-abram1999-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After Abram died in 2000, David A. Harris, Executive Director of the <a href="/wiki/American_Jewish_Committee" title="American Jewish Committee">American Jewish Committee</a>, was elected Chairman of UN Watch.<sup id="cite_ref-UN_Watch,_AJC_Seal_Partnership_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UN_Watch,_AJC_Seal_Partnership-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2001, Harris announced that UN Watch had become a wholly owned subsidiary of the American Jewish Committee. According to a press release at the time, “UN Watch was established with the generous assistance of Edgar Bronfman, President of the World Jewish Congress. Eighteen months ago, the American Jewish Committee and the World Jewish Congress reached an agreement, approved by the international board of UN Watch, to transfer full control of the organization to AJC, an agreement that went into effect on January 1, 2001.”<sup id="cite_ref-UN_Watch,_AJC_Seal_Partnership_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UN_Watch,_AJC_Seal_Partnership-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Since 2013, UN Watch claimed it is no longer affiliated with AJC and is an independent organization.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Structure_and_status">Structure and status</h2></div> <p>UN Watch participates at the UN as an accredited NGO in Special Consultative Status to the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and as an Associate NGO to the UN Department of Public Information (DPI). It is affiliated with the <a href="/wiki/American_Jewish_Committee" title="American Jewish Committee">American Jewish Committee</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-AJC_Office_and_Departments_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AJC_Office_and_Departments-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ACJ_Activities_in_Europe_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ACJ_Activities_in_Europe-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>UN Watch has participated in the following UN activities: the <a href="/wiki/Commission_on_Human_Rights" class="mw-redirect" title="Commission on Human Rights">Commission on Human Rights</a>, a Panel Discussion on the United Nations and the Middle East, a Panel Discussion on Proposals to Reform the Commission on Human Rights, the Sub-Commission for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, the <a href="/wiki/Committee_on_the_Elimination_of_Racial_Discrimination" class="mw-redirect" title="Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination">Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination</a>, and the Working Group on Minorities. A UN Watch seminar in Geneva featured a tour of the <a href="/wiki/Palais_des_Nations" class="mw-redirect" title="Palais des Nations">Palais des Nations</a>, a visit to the <a href="/wiki/International_Red_Cross_and_Red_Crescent_Museum" title="International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum">International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum</a>, and attendance at a meeting of the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_against_Torture#Committee_against_Torture" class="mw-redirect" title="United Nations Convention against Torture">Committee Against Torture</a> (CAT) with briefings from the Committee's Vice Chair.<sup id="cite_ref-QuadRepo_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-QuadRepo-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In October 2008, UNHCR listed the organization as having a staff of six.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> UN Watch had 110 members in 2007, geographically distributed as follows: 56% from Europe, 38% from North America, and 4% from Oceania. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Board_and_funding">Board and funding</h2></div> <p>Current board members are:<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Diego_Arria" title="Diego Arria">Diego Arria</a>, former Permanent Representative for Venezuela to the United Nations and President of the Security Council</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jean-Claude_Buhrer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jean-Claude Buhrer (page does not exist)">Jean-Claude Buhrer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irwin_Cotler" title="Irwin Cotler">Irwin Cotler</a>, human rights advocate, former Canadian Member of Parliament, former <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Minister_of_Justice" class="mw-redirect" title="Canadian Minister of Justice">Minister of Justice</a> and <a href="/wiki/Attorney_General_of_Canada" class="mw-redirect" title="Attorney General of Canada">Attorney General</a> of Canada, Founder and Chair of the <a href="/wiki/Raoul_Wallenberg_Centre_for_Human_Rights" title="Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights">Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights</a>.</li> <li>Yang Jianli, Chinese dissident with United States residency and human rights activist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Garry_Kasparov" title="Garry Kasparov">Garry Kasparov</a> Russian dissident and former world chess champion</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_P._Lagon" title="Mark P. Lagon">Mark P. Lagon</a> political scientist and practitioner, Chief Policy Officer at Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria and a Distinguished Senior Scholar at <a href="/wiki/School_of_Foreign_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="School of Foreign Service">Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katrina_Lantos_Swett" class="mw-redirect" title="Katrina Lantos Swett">Katrina Lantos Swett</a> President of the <a href="/wiki/Lantos_Foundation" class="mw-redirect" title="Lantos Foundation">Lantos Foundation</a>, former Chair of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Commission_on_International_Religious_Freedom" title="United States Commission on International Religious Freedom">United States Commission on International Religious Freedom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Trimble" title="David Trimble">David Trimble</a>, former first <a href="/wiki/First_Minister_of_Northern_Ireland" class="mw-redirect" title="First Minister of Northern Ireland">First Minister of Northern Ireland</a> from 1998 to 2002 and the leader of the <a href="/wiki/Ulster_Unionist_Party" title="Ulster Unionist Party">Ulster Unionist Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gert_Weisskirchen" title="Gert Weisskirchen">Gert Weisskirchen</a>, German politician and former Member of the <a href="/wiki/Bundestag" title="Bundestag">Bundestag</a></li></ul> <p>Former board members include: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Per_Ahlmark" title="Per Ahlmark">Per Ahlmark</a>, former <a href="/wiki/Deputy_Prime_Minister_of_Sweden" title="Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden">Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Max_Jakobson" title="Max Jakobson">Max Jakobson</a>, former <a href="/wiki/Finland" title="Finland">Finnish</a> Ambassador to the United Nations</li> <li>David A. Harris, Executive Director of the American Jewish Committee</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ruth_Wedgwood" title="Ruth Wedgwood">Ruth Wedgwood</a>, Professor of International Law and Diplomacy, <a href="/wiki/Johns_Hopkins_University" title="Johns Hopkins University">Johns Hopkins University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_H._Moses" title="Alfred H. Moses">Alfred H. Moses</a>, Attorney, former <a href="/wiki/United_States_Ambassador_to_Romania" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Ambassador to Romania">United States Ambassador to Romania</a> and Presidential Emissary for the <a href="/wiki/Cyprus_dispute" class="mw-redirect" title="Cyprus dispute">Cyprus Conflict</a>, <a href="/wiki/White_House_Counsel" title="White House Counsel">Special Counsel</a> to President <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Carter" title="Jimmy Carter">Jimmy Carter</a>.</li></ul> <p>UN Watch is funded by private individual donations and charitable foundations.<sup id="cite_ref-QuadRepo_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-QuadRepo-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Positions_and_activities">Positions and activities</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Regions">Regions</h3></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Congo">Congo</h4></div> <p>In 2008, UN Watch denounced the elimination of the post of United Nations special rapporteur for the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_Congo" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratic Republic of Congo">Congo</a> at the United Nations Human Rights Council which was done with the support of <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a>, Algeria, <a href="/wiki/Tunisia" title="Tunisia">Tunisia</a>, Russia and other countries following a request by the Congolese administration. Other rights groups called for the reestablishment of the post.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In December 2009, UN Watch said a total of 50 groupings had signed the appeal to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and human rights chief Navi Pillay, asking to restore the post of UN rights monitor there.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Darfur">Darfur</h4></div> <p>On 27 April 2008, UN Watch joined human rights organizations around the world in launching a "Justice for Darfur" campaign. The organizations behind the campaign included <a href="/wiki/Amnesty_International" title="Amnesty International">Amnesty International</a>, <a href="/wiki/Human_Rights_First" title="Human Rights First">Human Rights First</a> and <a href="/wiki/Human_Rights_Watch" title="Human Rights Watch">Human Rights Watch</a>. The campaign called on the United Nations Security Council, regional organizations and national governments to pressure <a href="/wiki/Sudan" title="Sudan">Sudan</a> to cooperate with the <a href="/wiki/International_Criminal_Court" title="International Criminal Court">International Criminal Court</a>, and to arrest suspected war criminals <a href="/wiki/Ali_Kushayb" title="Ali Kushayb">Ali Kushayb</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ahmad_Harun" class="mw-redirect" title="Ahmad Harun">Ahmad Harun</a>. The Sudanese government had refused to surrender either suspect to the Court, and had in fact promoted Harun to the position of State Minister for Humanitarian Affairs.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Iran">Iran</h4></div> <p>UN Watch commended the US, France and other democracies for their “forceful criticism” of Iran's human rights record at a UN hearing in Geneva's UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in February 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-Iran_under_fire_at_UNHRC_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Iran_under_fire_at_UNHRC-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Switzerland">Switzerland</h4></div> <p>Following <a href="/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland">Switzerland</a>’s <a href="/wiki/Swiss_minaret_ban" class="mw-redirect" title="Swiss minaret ban">2009 vote to ban minarets</a>, UN Watch stated that it was particularly embarrassed by the fact and that it will work toward its repeal. The NGO's director <a href="/wiki/Hillel_Neuer" title="Hillel Neuer">Hillel Neuer</a> said that banning of Muslim structures by a government is wrongful discrimination.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="UNHRC_elections">UNHRC elections</h3></div> <p>Along with <a href="/wiki/Freedom_House" title="Freedom House">Freedom House</a>, UN Watch has opposed the candidacies of states with poor human rights records for the United Nations Human Rights Council. The 2006 UN resolution establishing the council requires that, in electing states to the panel, UN member states "shall take into account the contribution of candidates to the promotion and protection of human rights."<sup id="cite_ref-bahrain_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bahrain-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2007">2007</h4></div> <p>In May 2007, UN Watch and Freedom House submitted a joint report on an election to the United Nations Human Rights Council, stating that candidates <a href="/wiki/Angola" title="Angola">Angola</a>, Belarus, <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a> and <a href="/wiki/Qatar" title="Qatar">Qatar</a> were unfit to sit on the human rights body, because they themselves violated rights. The report said that the four countries "are authoritarian regimes with negative UN voting records (on rights issues) and are not qualified to be Council members". The report further described candidates <a href="/wiki/Slovenia" title="Slovenia">Slovenia</a>, Denmark, Italy and the <a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a> as "well qualified" for the Council, and called candidates Bolivia, India, Indonesia, Madagascar, <a href="/wiki/Nicaragua" title="Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a> and South Africa as "questionable".<sup id="cite_ref-angola_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-angola-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2009">2009</h4></div> <p>In May 2009, UN Watch and Freedom House again submitted a joint report on a UNHRC election. The report described candidates <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="People's Republic of China">China</a>, Cuba and <a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" title="Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a> as "the worst of the worst" in terms of human rights. The report also described candidates <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan" title="Azerbaijan">Azerbaijan</a>, Cameroon, <a href="/wiki/Djibouti" title="Djibouti">Djibouti</a> and <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a> as "not qualified", and <a href="/wiki/Bangladesh" title="Bangladesh">Bangladesh</a>, Jordan, <a href="/wiki/Kenya" title="Kenya">Kenya</a>, Kyrgyzstan, <a href="/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria">Nigeria</a> and <a href="/wiki/Senegal" title="Senegal">Senegal</a> as "questionable". UN Watch and Freedom House described the council's record for its first three years as poor. They stated that Islamic countries with Cuban support rewrote rules for a freedom of expression monitor in a manner that limits expression, and that an "alliance of regressive regimes" succeeded in having the Council cancel human rights investigators for trouble spots such as Belarus, Cuba, <a href="/wiki/Liberia" title="Liberia">Liberia</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_Congo" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratic Republic of Congo">Democratic Republic of Congo</a> and <a href="/wiki/Darfur" title="Darfur">Darfur</a>. In contrast, they said, the alliance led to the council appointing an investigator who was involved in founding a controversial human rights prize in honor of <a href="/wiki/Muammar_al-Gaddafi" class="mw-redirect" title="Muammar al-Gaddafi">Muammar al-Gaddafi</a> and another who believes that the <a href="/wiki/9/11_attacks" class="mw-redirect" title="9/11 attacks">9/11 attacks</a> were an inside job. Hillel Neuer said, "The vision had been that the council would be a voice for victims, but it is now in a state of crisis."<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2010">2010</h4></div> <p>UN Watch expressed alarm over a report that Asian countries might facilitate <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a>’s election in May 2010 to the 47-member UNHRC.<sup id="cite_ref-Iran_under_fire_at_UNHRC_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Iran_under_fire_at_UNHRC-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2011">2011</h4></div> <p>UN Watch is credited with leading the campaign to deny <a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a>'s bid for a seat.<sup id="cite_ref-Horn_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Horn-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2014">2014</h4></div> <p>UN Watch strongly condemned the 2014 elections of <a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" title="Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a>, <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a> to the Human Rights Council. In an interview by France 24, executive director Hillel Neuer called this a “black day for human rights.”<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A campaign to remove these countries from the body, "Dictator-free HRC" is ongoing along with a petition on the organization's website.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_UN_activities">Other UN activities</h3></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Goldstone_Report">Goldstone Report</h4></div> <p>UN Watch submitted a 29-page legal petition to the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Fact_Finding_Mission_on_the_Gaza_Conflict" title="United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict">United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict</a> requesting the recusal of member <a href="/wiki/Christine_Chinkin" title="Christine Chinkin">Christine Chinkin</a> because she was one of 31 academics and lawyers who had co-signed a letter published in the <i><a href="/wiki/Sunday_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunday Times">Sunday Times</a></i> before being selected for the mission that accused Israel of not complying with international humanitarian and human rights law.<sup id="cite_ref-unw_chinkin_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-unw_chinkin-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The letter described Israel's military offensive in Gaza as "an act of aggression", stating that "invasion and bombardment of Gaza amounts to collective punishment of Gaza's 1.5m inhabitants contrary to international humanitarian and human rights law", and adding that "the blockade of humanitarian relief, the destruction of civilian infrastructure, and preventing access to basic necessities such as food and fuel, are prima facie war crimes".<sup id="cite_ref-Israel’s_bombardment_of_Gaza_is_not_self-defence_–_it’s_a_war_crime_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Israel’s_bombardment_of_Gaza_is_not_self-defence_–_it’s_a_war_crime-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> UN Watch stated that, since Chinkin had already formed and expressed a judgment on the very issues the Mission was meant to investigate, she could not fulfill the impartiality requirement for fact-finding missions.<sup id="cite_ref-unw_chinkin_29-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-unw_chinkin-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The petition cites authorities of international law, including a 2004 precedent of the international tribunal for Sierra Leone, in which Justice Geoffrey Robertson was disqualified by his fellow judges over the appearance of bias.<sup id="cite_ref-NGO:_Academic_should_quit_Cast_Lead_inquiry_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NGO:_Academic_should_quit_Cast_Lead_inquiry-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The UN Watch request was covered by the Deutsche Presse Agentur and the <i>Khaleej Times</i><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Agence France Presse.<sup id="cite_ref-GazaAFP_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GazaAFP-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> UN Watch further noted that in a May 2009 meeting with Geneva NGOs, Chinkin denied that her impartiality was compromised, saying that her statement only addressed <a href="/wiki/Jus_ad_bellum" title="Jus ad bellum">jus ad bellum</a>, and not <a href="/wiki/Jus_in_bello" class="mw-redirect" title="Jus in bello">jus in bello</a>; however, according to UN Watch, the statement not only determined that "Israel’s actions amount to aggression, not self-defence," but additionally charged that they were "contrary to international humanitarian and human rights law," and constituted "prima facie war crimes."<sup id="cite_ref-LSE_Law_Professor_Urged_to_Step_Down_from_U.N_Gaza_Inquiry_over_Bias_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LSE_Law_Professor_Urged_to_Step_Down_from_U.N_Gaza_Inquiry_over_Bias-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The inquiry members rejected the petition and said that the mission investigated whether Israel, Hamas or the Palestinian Authority had unnecessarily caused death or injury to innocent civilians by specific acts of armed conflict that violated international humanitarian law and international human rights law stating "On those issues the letter co-signed by Professor Chinkin expressed no view at all."<sup id="cite_ref-Dispute_over_'biased'_Gaza_inquiry_professor_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dispute_over_'biased'_Gaza_inquiry_professor-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-U.N._Goldstone_inquiry_rejects_’so-called_petition_of_UN_Watch’;_denies_mission_is_quasi-judicial_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-U.N._Goldstone_inquiry_rejects_’so-called_petition_of_UN_Watch’;_denies_mission_is_quasi-judicial-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The members further wrote in their reply that the fact-finding mission cannot be considered a judicial or even a quasi-judicial proceeding.<sup id="cite_ref-U.N._Goldstone_inquiry_rejects_’so-called_petition_of_UN_Watch’;_denies_mission_is_quasi-judicial_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-U.N._Goldstone_inquiry_rejects_’so-called_petition_of_UN_Watch’;_denies_mission_is_quasi-judicial-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Hillel_Neuer" title="Hillel Neuer">Hillel Neuer</a>, director of UN Watch, said that the arguments raised by the mission ignored the well-established set of standards to international fact-finding missions.<sup id="cite_ref-Gold_vs_Goldstone_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gold_vs_Goldstone-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Goldstone said that the letter signed by Chinkin could have been the grounds for disqualification, had the mission been a judicial inquiry.<sup id="cite_ref-Goldstone_walks_a_fine_line_in_an_ancient_war_zone_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Goldstone_walks_a_fine_line_in_an_ancient_war_zone-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Israel_and_antisemitism">Israel and antisemitism</h4></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Israel_and_the_United_Nations" title="Israel and the United Nations">Israel and the United Nations</a> and <a href="/wiki/UNESCO#Israel" title="UNESCO">UNESCO § Israel</a></div> <p>UN Watch is active at the UN in combating what it considers anti-Israel and anti-Semitic attitudes, and what it dubs the selective and politicized treatment of Israel by many UN bodies.<sup id="cite_ref-unwatch-mission-history_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-unwatch-mission-history-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The group supported former Secretary General <a href="/wiki/Kofi_Annan" title="Kofi Annan">Kofi Annan</a>'s declared goal of ending the UN's imbalanced treatment of Israel<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and has been highly critical of the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Human_Rights_Council" title="United Nations Human Rights Council">United Nations Human Rights Council</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-jewishtimes.com_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jewishtimes.com-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-jta.org_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jta.org-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-npr.org_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-npr.org-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Jewish Telegraphic Agency has described U.N. Watch as a pro-Israel organization.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="March_2007_UNHRC_speech">March 2007 UNHRC speech</h5></div> <p>On 23 March 2007, UN Watch's Hillel Neuer delivered a harshly critical speech to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), stating that the Council had betrayed the dreams of its founders and become "a nightmare". Neuer charged that the Council ignores human rights abuses worldwide, opting instead to enact "one resolution after another condemning one single state: Israel". He further argued that the Council's stated concern for Palestinian human rights is deceptive, and provided examples where he said it ignored atrocities against Palestinians "because Israel could not be blamed. … The despots who run this Council couldn’t care less about Palestinians, or about any human rights. They seek to demonize Israeli democracy, to delegitimize the Jewish state, to scapegoat the Jewish people."<sup id="cite_ref-sun_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sun-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Jewish Telegraphic Agency has described U.N. Watch as a pro-Israel organization. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other">Other</h3></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Sexual_exploitation">Sexual exploitation</h4></div> <p>UN Watch, the <a href="/wiki/World_YWCA" class="mw-redirect" title="World YWCA">World YWCA</a>, and the World Alliance of YMCAs published a statement against sexual exploitation and child pornography. "Today far too many children are sexually exploited and abused causing lifelong damage. More than two million children are exploited in the multibillion-dollar sex industry each year and 1.2 million children are trafficked annually", the statement said.<sup id="cite_ref-YMCA_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-YMCA-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2></div> <p>Former UN Secretary General <a href="/wiki/Kofi_Annan" title="Kofi Annan">Kofi Annan</a> has said "I deeply appreciate the valuable work performed by UN Watch. I believe that informed and independent evaluation of the United Nations' activities will prove a vital source as we seek to adapt the Organization to the needs of a changing world."<sup id="cite_ref-kofi1_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kofi1-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-kofi2_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kofi2-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ian Williams, former president of the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Correspondents_Association" title="United Nations Correspondents Association">United Nations Correspondents Association</a><sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and author of <i>The UN For Beginners</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> wrote in an opinion piece in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i> in 2007 that the main objective of UN Watch "is to attack the United Nations in general, and its human rights council in particular, for alleged bias against Israel". Williams supported UN Watch's condemnation of the UN Human Rights Council as a hypocritical organization, but also accused UN Watch itself of hypocrisy for failing to denounce what he called "manifest Israeli transgressions against the human rights of Palestinians."<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Claudia_Rosett" title="Claudia Rosett">Claudia Rosett</a>, a journalist-in-residence with the conservative <a href="/wiki/Foundation_for_Defense_of_Democracies" title="Foundation for Defense of Democracies">Foundation for Defense of Democracies</a>, praised UN Watch as "stalwart and invaluable".<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The American journalist and political activist <a href="/wiki/Phyllis_Bennis" title="Phyllis Bennis">Phyllis Bennis</a> described UN Watch as a "small Geneva-based right-wing organisation" that is "hardly known outside of UN headquarters".<sup id="cite_ref-auto_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She stressed that "undermining and delegitimising" <a href="/wiki/Richard_A._Falk" title="Richard A. 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