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*[[Leon Saltiel]]<ref>[http://www.unwatch.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=bdKKISNqEmG&b=1330819&ct=1760293 Source]</ref> | *[[Leon Saltiel]]<ref>[http://www.unwatch.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=bdKKISNqEmG&b=1330819&ct=1760293 Source]</ref> | ||
*[[Eve Gani]]<ref>ibid.</ref> | *[[Eve Gani]]<ref>ibid.</ref> | ||
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*[[Michael Inlander]]<ref>ibid.</ref> | *[[Michael Inlander]]<ref>ibid.</ref> | ||
*[[Jonas Waechter]]<ref>ibid.</ref> | *[[Jonas Waechter]]<ref>ibid.</ref> | ||
*[[Jardena Lande]]<ref>ibid.</ref> | *[[Jardena Lande]]<ref>ibid.</ref> | ||
*[[Natasha Sarraf]]<ref>ibid.</ref> | *[[Natasha Sarraf]]<ref>ibid.</ref> | ||
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| + | *[[Pablo Kapusta]] – Media Relations<ref>Wilmer Hale: [http://www.wilmerhale.com/pablo_kapusta/ profile] (Accessed: 18 December 2011.)</ref> | ||
==Affiliations== | ==Affiliations== | ||
Revision as of 09:39, 18 December 2011
UN Watch, a Geneva-based group, meant to monitor and lobby about the UN Human Rights organizations. UN Watch is a lobbying project set up and funded by the American Jewish Committee since 2001. Ian Williams, a journalist covering the UN for many years and former president of the United Nations Correspondents Association, summarizes UN Watch's role:
- UN Watch is an organisation whose main purpose is to attack the United Nations in general, and its human rights council in particular, for alleged bias against Israel.[1]
Contents
Nexus to AJC
UN Watch claims to have 'complete independence' from the AJC.[2] But it is perfectly clear from the press release on the AJC website that this is false. The press release notes that UN Watch is to become 'fully integrated' into the AJC. The release concludes:
- 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.[3]
The main activities of UN Watch
- Monitor UN activities, resolutions, or official statements that are construed to be critical of Israel.[4]
- Lobby for the removal of UN personnel who are considered critical of Israel[5]
- Forming coalitions to leverage influence at the UN. This also entails assisting the interests of other groups to later count on their support.[6]
- Lobby for the inclusion of AJC approved personnel; this is a standard operating procedure by the American Jewish Committee[7]
Principals
- Morris B. Abram – Founder (died 2000)
- Alfred H. Moses – Chairman
- David A. Harris (Co-Chair), AJC Executive Director
- Hillel Neuer – Executive Director
- Elizabeth Cassidy – Assistant Executive Director
- Per Ahlmark (European Co-Chair), former Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden
- Irwin Cotler (co-Chair) international human rights advocate and former Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of Canada
- Max Jakobson former Permanent Representative of Finland to the UN in New York
- Jeane Kirkpatrick (deceased) former US Permanent Representative to the UN in New York
- Ruth Wedgwood professor of international law and diplomacy at Johns Hopkins University
Staff
- Leon Saltiel[8]
- Eve Gani[9]
- Michael Inlander[10]
- Jonas Waechter[11]
- Jardena Lande[12]
- Natasha Sarraf[13]
=Former Staff
- Pablo Kapusta – Media Relations[14]
Affiliations
- American Jewish Committee (parent organization)
- World Jewish Congress (jointly controlled the organization with AJC until 2001)
- Transatlantic Institute (another AJC operation)
- Friedrich Naumann Stiftung – co-sponsors events with UN Watch
Similar Organizations
Contact
Address
- 1 rue de Varembé,(PO Box 191)
- 1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland.
- Email: unwatch@unwatch.org
- Website: www.unwatch.org
- Phone: +41 22 734 14 72
Affiliations
External Resources
- Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, Paul de Rooij and David Miller, UN Watch: Front Group for the American Jewish Committee, Spinwatch.org, 8 June 2008.
References
- ↑ Ian Williams, Casting the first stone, Guardian, 4 April 2007.
- ↑ Leon Saltiel Inaccuracies email to Spinwatch, 3 July 2006.
- ↑ AJC Media Release, "UN Watch, AJC Seal Partnership", American Jewish Committee, 4 January 2001
- ↑ This can be confirmed through a perusal of their press releases.
- ↑ UN Watch has been vociferous about UN personnel like Mary Robinson, Peter Hansen, Jean Ziegler.
- ↑ See for example:
- Tovah Lazaroff, 70 rights groups call on UN to condemn Tripoli, Jerusalem Post, 22 February 2011. UN Watch organizes petitions/demand writing with dozens of signatories. In return UN Watch signs on to petitions/demands favorable to the previous signatories. The added bonus for UN Watch is that it then doesn't seem like a "one-issue" organization.
- See this coalition UN Watch organized for a censure motion.
- UN Watch appears as one of the main participants in CONGO, an organization that brings together disparate NGOs seeking to lobby the UN. The premise is that the NGOs working in tandem can have greater influence and assist one another obtain their aims.
- ↑ see AJC News Update Number 212, 28 June 2006.
- ↑ Source
- ↑ ibid.
- ↑ ibid.
- ↑ ibid.
- ↑ ibid.
- ↑ ibid.
- ↑ Wilmer Hale: profile (Accessed: 18 December 2011.)
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