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| − | '''UN Watch''', a Geneva-based group, monitors the performance of the United Nations by the yardstick of its own Charter and promote human rights for all. It is an accredited non-governmental organization with the UN ECOSOC and has affiliate status with the UN DPI. UN Watch led the largest NGO coalition at the UN Human Rights Council special session on Darfur in December 2006. [http://web.radicalparty.org/pressreleases/press_release.php?func=detail&par=8146] It has often appealed to the UN to take stronger action on Darfur. [http://www.humanrights-geneva.info/article.php3?id_article=927]
| + | UN Watch, a Geneva-based group, was founded in 1993 to monitor the performance of the United Nations and with a stated mission of promoting human rights, but with an prime emphasis on the coverage of Israeli violations of human rights. It is an accredited non-governmental organization with the UN ECOSOC and has affiliate status with the UN DPI. |
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| + | It has been founded and funded by the American Jewish Committee since 2001. UN Watch led the largest NGO coalition at the UN Human Rights Council special session on Darfur in December 2006. |
| − | *Monitor UN activities, resolutions, or official statements and measure their consistency with the values of the UN Charter. It has spoken out for the rights of Cuban political prisoners, Russian students jailed for protesting, rape victims of Darfur, freedom from fear and want in Zimbabwe. Another important cause is what it describes as the UN's obsessive one-sided condemndations of Israel. [http://www.unwatch.org]
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| − | *Forming coalitions with non-governmental organizations to leverage their collective influence at the UN, fo example for the victims of Darfur: [http://www.unog.ch/80256EDD006B9C2E/(httpNewsByYear_en)/AE5AA8E553026F41C1257243004983F3?OpenDocument robust Darfur action ].
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| − | :UN Watch notes that the disproportionate attention and unfair treatment applied by the UN toward Israel over the years offers an object lesson (though not the only one) in how due process, equal treatment, and other fundamental principles of the UN Charter are often ignored or selectively upheld.[http://www.unwatch.org/site/c.bdKKISNqEmG/b.1313591/k.954F/Mission__History.htm]
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| − | ==History== | + | ==Nexus to AJC== |
| | + | 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.<ref>Ian Williams, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/apr/04/itwasamakemydayevent Casting the first stone], Guardian, 4 April 2007.</ref> |
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| − | UN Watch was established in 1993 under the chairmanship of [[Morris Abram]], a pioneer leader in the civil rights movement with Martin Luther King, Jr., president of the United Negro College Fund, and Permanent U.S. Representative to the United Natinos in Geneva. ITs borad includes leading human rights scholars and statesmen. | + | UN Watch has been funded by the [[American Jewish Committee]] since 2001. It claims to have 'complete independence' from the AJC.<ref>Leon Saltiel [[UN Watch email to Spinwatch on 'Inaccuracies'|Inaccuracies]] email to Spinwatch, 3 July 2006.</ref> |
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| − | :UN Watch is an accredited non-governmental organization that monitors the performance of the United Nations according to the yardstick of its own Charter. Areas of concern include strengthening the role of democracies within the UN and ensuring the equal treatment by the UN of its member states. At the United Nations, UN Watch has been at the forefront in the fight against anti-Semitism and against the UN’s discriminatory treatment of Israel.[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jsn99/message/448]
| + | However, a press release from its site 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.<ref>AJC Media Release, "[http://www.ajc.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=ijITI2PHKoG&b=849241&ct=866815 UN Watch, AJC Seal Partnership]", ''American Jewish Committee'', 4 January 2001</ref> |
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| − | == UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and UN Watch == | + | ==The main activities of UN Watch== |
| − | | + | *Monitor UN activities, resolutions, or official statements that are construed to be critical of Israel.<ref>This can be confirmed through a perusal of their [http://www.unwatch.org/site/c.bdKKISNqEmG/b.1316871/k.8F03/Press_Releases/apps/nl/newsletter2.asp press releases].</ref> |
| − | UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said the following about UN Watch: | + | *Lobby for the removal of UN personnel who are considered critical of Israel<ref>UN Watch has been vociferous about UN personnel like Mary Robinson, Peter Hansen, Jean Ziegler.</ref> |
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| + | *Forming coalitions to leverage influence at the UN. This also entails assisting the interests of other groups to later count on their support.<ref>See for example: |
| − | "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. I can promise you that I will pay close attention to your observations and view in the years ahead."
| + | *Tovah Lazaroff, [http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=209294 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 deceptive aspect about this is that it enables UN Watch to allay the image of being a "single-issue" organization. |
| − | | + | *See this coalition UN Watch organized for a [http://cm.greekhelsinki.gr/index.php?sec=194&cid=1337 censure motion]. |
| − | <div | + | *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.</ref> |
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| + | *Lobby for the inclusion of AJC approved personnel; this is a standard operating procedure by the American Jewish Committee<ref>see AJC News Update Number 212, 28 June 2006.</ref> |
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| − | ==UN Watch campaigns==
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| − | UN Watch cooperates with non-governmental organizations around the world in order to protect and promote the principles of the UN Charter. In 2004 UN Watch intervened on behalf of victims of torture and censorship in Cote d'Ivoire, Zimbabwe, Cuba, Nepal, Myanmar, and Pakistan. [http://www.unwatch.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=bdKKISNqEmG&b=1313923&ct=1748035] UN Watch also spoke out for the Lebanese victims of Syrian political assasinations. [http://www.unwatch.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=bdKKISNqEmG&b=1313923&ct=1715217]
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| − | ===Darfur===
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| − | UN Watch is among the leading advocates at the United Nations for human rights victims in Darfur. [http://www.unwatch.org/site/apps/nl/content3.asp?c=bdKKISNqEmG&b=2607541&ct=4318441][http://www.unwatch.org/site/apps/nl/content3.asp?c=bdKKISNqEmG&b=2607541&ct=3963169] UN Watch chaired the NGO Activist Summit For Darfur in 2007. [http://www.unwatch.org/site/c.bdKKISNqEmG/b.1286087/apps/nl/content2.asp?content_id={53BA537F-51B9-4A28-A0E8-EFD638A9B470}¬oc=1] UN Watch challenged Sudan in 2007 for its rejection of human rights experts in Darfur. [http://www.unwatch.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=bdKKISNqEmG&b=1313923&ct=3677507] UN Watch justice for child victims in Darfur in 2005. [http://www.unwatch.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=bdKKISNqEmG&b=1313923&ct=1748005]
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| − | In August 2007, UN Watch director Hillel Neuer was the keynote speaker at the Save Darfur Canada rally in Montreal. [http://www.savedarfurcanada.org/speaker_bios2.html] Neuer spoke together with Gen. Lewis MacKenzie, former commander of UN peacekeepers in the Balkans; Prof. Payam Akhavan, international law professor at McGill, and former senior advisor to the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court; Simon Deng, a black Christian from the south of Sudan who was sold into slavery into the Muslim north; Miss World Canada Nazanin Afshin-Jam; and [[Ayaan Hirsi Ali]], author of Infidel.
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| − | ===Israel's Magen David Adom service===
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| − | AJC and UN Watch (operating in common) were among the hundreds and thousands of individuals, organizations, legislators, Red Cross federations, and others who contributed to the effort that led the International Red Cross to finally recognize the membership of [[Magen David Adom]], the Israeli emergency service, as well as the Palestinian service. The head of the Red Cross, Swiss Foreign Minister Calmy-Rey met and magician [[Uri Geller]] all supported the cause.[http://groups.google.co.uk/group/MEPForum/browse_thread/thread/823982a5ef3863cb/bff314ef26864daa?lnk=st&q=%22Leon+Saltiel%22&rnum=1&hl=en#bff314ef26864daa]
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| − | ===Human rights testimony===
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| − | UN Watch has represented human rights victims in regular testimony before the UN Human Rights Council. | |
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| − | Its outspoken advocacy for student Jenya Taranenko preceded her release from a Russian prison. [http://www.unwatch.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=bdKKISNqEmG&b=1313923&ct=3152837]
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| − | UN Watch's Neuer debated Zimbabwe's UN ambassador on CNN over the Mugabe regime's dismal human rights record. [http://www.unwatch.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=bdKKISNqEmG&b=1319279&ct=1771841]
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| − | In 2007 UN Watch spoke out for the Arab, Kurdish, and Bahai victims of violations in Iran. [http://www.unwatch.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=bdKKISNqEmG&b=1313923&ct=4471149]
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| − | ==Monitoring UN Officials==
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| − | UN Watch monitors the actions of UN officials. However the nature of this monitoring is betrayed by the fact that while praise is dispensed freely, the criticism is invariably related to an official's perceived unsympathetic stance towards Israel. The following examples illustrate this:
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| − | ==Criticism==
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| − | ===Jean Ziegler===
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| − | Jean Ziegler is "co-founder and vice-chairman of the foundation that administers the Moammar KhaddafiPrize for Human Rights, and arranged for Fidel Castro to win the US$250,000 award in 1998."
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| − | [http://communities.canada.com/nationalpost/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2007/11/15/the-post-editorial-board-the-farce-at-the-unhrc.aspx] UN Watch has also described [[Jean Ziegler]] as "among the most vicious" of persecutors of Israel at the United Nations and a man who is obsessed with "bashing Israel." {{ref|zig}} In July 2006 UN Watch ran a campaign to 'Stop Jean Ziegler's nomination to the UN Human Rights Council' complete with proposed text of email to be sent to the Swiss Ambassador to the UN.[http://www.unwatch.org/c.bdKKISNqEmG/b.1289215/k.8EE6/Take_Action/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?c=bdKKISNqEmG&b=1289215&aid=5863] | |
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| − | According to the [[AJC]]:
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| − | :AJC’s Geneva-based affiliate UN Watch has played a key role among non-governmental organizations in protesting the Swiss nomination of Jean Ziegler to a new UN post dealing with human rights. Ziegler, who had served for six years as the UN expert on hunger and was notoriously anti-Israel, was the subject of a thorough UN Watch report last year.{{ref|AJCupdate}}
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| − | The said UN Watch report included statements such as:
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| − | :Ziegler is popular among Europe's trendy radicals for his anti-American writings and impassioned media appearances. He is also a hero for his frequent attacks on the Jewish state, all issued with his UN imprimatur...
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| − | :In the summer of 2004, after it emerged that Ziegler was using UN staff and resources to run an anti-Israel boycott campaign, UN Watch petitioned for his removal with a legal brief to the UN Commission on Human Rights...It also documented a series of actions by Ziegler that showed a pattern of selective treatment of Israel, the only country he singled out for condemnation as a Nazi-like state that commits "state terror" and "war crimes."...The charges against Ziegler received wide media coverage, particularly in Switzerland but also in Europe, the United States, and Israel...UN Watch noted that under the European Union's definition of anti-Semitism, comparing Israeli policy to that of the Nazis is a classic manifestation of this form of hatred...Finally, UN Watch alerted the media to the need for the UN to condemn Ziegler's demonization of Israelis...The impact was immediate. On the same day, 7 July, the UN Watch press release was cited by a reporter at the daily press conference of Annan's spokesman in New York. Consequently, the spokesman soon issued a statement denouncing Ziegler for his remarks. The next day the spokesman for Arbour did the same, followed later by an even stronger statement by Arbour herself in a letter to UN Watch. Canada then sent Ziegler a formal complaint letter. Finally, some seventy members of the U.S. Congress wrote to Annan and the Commission Chair seeking Ziegler's resignation.
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| − | :The story of this unprecedented condemnation was reported worldwide by ''Reuters'', the ''Associated Press'', the ''Washington Times'', China's ''Xinhua'', and the ''Jerusalem Post''. Headlines reading "Ziegler Criticized by UN" appeared in a dozen different newspapers in Switzerland, including ''Le Temps'', ''Basler Zeitung'', and ''Tages-Anzeiger''. For the first time, the UN community had condemned one of the Commission's human rights experts for anti-Semitism. Later stories about Ziegler, such as by the ''Associated Press'', have cited this condemnation, for the first time providing readers with the necessary context. {{ref|neuer}}
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| − | On October 27, 2005, UN Watch published a study which recommended that Kofi Annan and other UN high officials "condemn Jean Ziegler for bias" and that the Chairman of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, "should remove Jean Ziegler from the position of Special Rapporteur on the right to food" and "if the Chairman does not do so, the 53 State Members of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights should convene to adopt a resolution terminating Jean Ziegler’s term". Failing this, it recommended that "Ziegler should resign".{{ref|zigstudy}}
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| − | ===Peter Hansen===
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| − | UN Watch also furnished the "damning evidence" of UNRWA Commissioner-General [[Peter Hansen]]'s "unprofessionalism" and "pro-Palestinian bias". During Operation Defensive Shield, which left 500 Palestinians dead and 1500 wounded (''The Guardian'', August 2, 2002) , '[h]e demanded...that Israel "end this pitiless assault on civilian refugee camps."' UN Watch then goes on to list another "infamous statement":
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| − | :On April 18, he led a UN delegation there, after which he said: "I had hoped that the horror stories of Jenin were exaggerated and influenced by the emotions engaged, but I am afraid these were not exaggerated and that Jenin camp residents lived through a human catastrophe that has few parallels in recent history."
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| − | :After characterizing the two sides to the conflict as "asymmetrical" militarily, he asserted that Israelis and Palestinians were also "asymmetrical in the legitimacy of their cause."{{ref|hansen}}
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| − | UN Watch finally expressed satisfaction at Hansen's departure in a January 19, 2005 statement. It then added:
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| − | :At a meeting in New York last month, reports ''The Guardian'', Annan told Hansen: I dont have the political capital with the Americans to keep you. {{ref|ww}}
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| − | ===Mary Robinson===
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| − | According to an Australian group, UN Watch has critiqued the actions of [[Mary Robinson]]. Here in a report from [[Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council|AIJAC]] the Australian chapter of the [[American Jewish Committee]], the familiar story is told and [[UN Watch]] - which is also part of AJC - is described as 'respected':
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| − | :In meetings with officials of UN Watch, a respected body monitoring UN adherence to its own Charter, she is stand-offish, circumspect and correct.
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| − | :Each and every complaint submitted to Robinson has been rejected. Quizzed, for example, on the reference to Palestine as a state amongst many she has visited, Robinson dismisses this as convenient short-hand. By this yardstick, Robinson’s next visit to Lhasa (assuming she is ever allowed in) will be described as a visit to the sovereign state of Tibet.
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| − | :UN Watch’s [[Michael Colson]] opines, "She does not exercise the kind of restraint the Secretary-General exercises. [[Mary Robinson]], as far as I am concerned, has come close to violating the Charter." Even the "surprisingly even-handed" speech she recently gave outlining the actual chronology of the Palestinian violence, which demonstrated that [[Ariel Sharon]]’s visit to the Temple Mount did not originate it, seems to have been a one-off. Rumour has it that the speech was the brainchild of a previously undetected impartial staffer. {{ref|aijac}}
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| − | ==Praise==
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| − | ===Secretary General Ban Ki-moon===
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| − | UN Watch has praised Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for speaking out for the victims of Darfur, confronting Sri Lanka over the killings of aid workers and acting to establish the international tribunal on the assassination of former prime minister Rafik Hariri of Lebanon. [http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/28/opinion/ednuer.php] "Quietly but firmly, Ban is helping to confirm the UN's indispensable role in the world." [http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/28/opinion/ednuer.php] | |
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| − | UN Watch also praised Secretary-General Ban for following in the steps of his predecessor, Kofi Annan, in denouncing Holocaust denial and confronting the global scourge of anti-Semitism. [http://www.unwatch.org/atf/cf/%7B6DEB65DA-BE5B-4CAE-8056-8BF0BEDF4D17%7D/UNW%20report%20on%20UN%20&%20anti-Semitism.pdf] | |
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| − | ===Secretary General Kofi Annan===
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| − | UN Watch has often praised the actions of Mr. Kofi Annan. "On Darfur, Mr. Annan is certainly one of the most outspoken leaders on the international scene." [http://www.unwatch.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=bdKKISNqEmG&b=1314451&ct=2994229]
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| − | In "Time to Rally for Annan's Human Rights Reform," UN Watch praised Mr. Annan's reform efforts. [http://www.unwatch.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=bdKKISNqEmG&b=1314451&ct=1715001]
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| − | ===UN Experts Asma Jahangir and Hina Jilani===
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| − | UN Watch has several times spoken out for the rights of the "hero" Asma Janhangir, and her sister Hina Jilani, both of whom are UN human rights officials who have been subjected to arrest and detention by Pakistan. [http://www.unwatch.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=bdKKISNqEmG&b=1316871&ct=4622773] During a peaceful protest in support of women’s rights held in Lahore on May 14, 2005, Ms. Jahangir and Ms. Jilani were among several women who were publicly humiliated, beaten and arrested by Pakistani police. UN Watch confronted Pakistan over its actions at the June 2005 annual session of UN human rights experts in Geneva, causing Pakistan to issue its first apology for the “extremely unfortunate” incident. [http://www.unwatch.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=bdKKISNqEmG&b=1316871&ct=4622773] | |
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| − | == History ==
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| − | UN Watch is a non-governmental organization based in Geneva whose mandate is to monitor the performance of the United Nations by the yardstick of its own Charter. UN Watch was established in 1993 under the Chairmanship of Ambassador Morris B. Abram, the former U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva. UN Watch participates actively 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). Affiliated with the American Jewish Committee, the organization stands at the forefront at the United Nations in combating anti-Semitism and what former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan described as the obsessive and one-sided condemnations of Israel that preoccupy several key UN bodies.
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| − | UN Watch supports the United Nations' mission on behalf of the international community to "save succeeding generations from the scourge of war" and provide for a more just world. The Geneva-based NGO believes that even with its shortcomings, the UN remains an indispensable tool in bringing together diverse nations and cultures. UN Watch is keenly aware that member states often ask the UN to fulfill mandates and tasks that are neither feasible nor within the means provided. While it would be unrealistic to ignore the UN’s weaknesses, it advocates finding ways to build on its strengths and use its limited resources effectively.
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| − | UN Watch is foremost concerned with the just application of UN Charter principles. Areas of interest include: UN management reform, the UN and civil society, equality within the UN, and the equal treatment of member states. UN Watch notes that the disproportionate attention and unfair treatment applied by the UN toward Israel over the years offers an object lesson (though not the only one) in how due process, equal treatment, and other fundamental principles of the UN Charter are often ignored or selectively upheld.
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| − | Chaired by Ambassador [[Alfred H. Moses]] (Chair), former US Ambassador to Romania and Presidential Emissary for the Cyprus Conflict, UN Watch is governed by an international board whose members include: [[Per Ahlmark]] (European Co-Chair), former Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden; Professor [[Irwin Cotler]], international human rights advocate and former Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of Canada; [[David A. Harris]] (Co-Chair), AJC Executive Director; Ambassador [[Max Jakobson]], former Permanent Representative of Finland to the UN in New York; and [[Ruth Wedgwood]], professor of international law and diplomacy at Johns Hopkins University. [http://www.unwatch.org UN Watch, Geneva, Switzerland]
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| − | '''Executive Director''': Hillel C. Neuer
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| − | Hillel C. Neuer is executive director of UN Watch, a human rights NGO in Geneva, Switzerland. Originally from Montreal, Neuer has written on law, politics and international affairs for publications such as the International Herald Tribune, Juriste International, Commentary, The New Republic Online and the Christian Science Monitor. He appears regularly before the UN Human Rights Council, intervening for a range of causes including the rape victims of Darfur, political prisoners in Cuba, and Middle East peace. He recently testified as an expert witness before a hearing of the U.S. Congress on UN reform, and is regularly quoted by major media organizations including the New York Times, Die Welt, Le Figaro and Reuters. In the past year Neuer has debated UN human rights issues on CNN, Fox News, and the BBC. Prior to joining UN Watch, Neuer practiced commercial and civil rights litigation at the international law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. Active as a human rights defender, Neuer was cited by the Federal Court of New York for the high quality of his pro bono advocacy on a precedent-setting First Amendment case for prisoners’ rights and freedom of religion, as reported in AIDS Litigation Digest and the New York Law Journal. Neuer served as a law clerk to the Supreme Court of Israel. He holds a BA in intellectual history and political science from Concordia University, a BCL and LLB from the McGill University Faculty of Law, and a LLM in comparative constitutional law from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Neuer is a member of the New York bar and co-author of the Annotated Copyright Act of Canada and Directors and Officers—A Canadian Legal Manual.
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| | ==Principals== | | ==Principals== |
| | *[[Morris B. Abram]] – Founder (died 2000) | | *[[Morris B. Abram]] – Founder (died 2000) |
| | *[[Alfred H. Moses]] – Chairman | | *[[Alfred H. Moses]] – Chairman |
| − | *[[David A. Harris]] (Co-Chair), AJC Executive Director
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| | *[[Hillel Neuer]] – Executive Director | | *[[Hillel Neuer]] – Executive Director |
| − | *[[Per Ahlmark]] (European Co-Chair), former Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden | + | *[[Elizabeth Cassidy]] – Assistant Executive Director |
| − | *[[Irwin Cotler]] (co-Chair) international human rights advocate and former Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of Canada | + | ===Board of Directors=== |
| − | *[[Max Jakobson]] former Permanent Representative of Finland to the UN in New York | + | *[[David A. Harris]] (Co-Chair)<ref name=board></ref> |
| − | *[[Ruth Wedgwood]] professor of international law and diplomacy at Johns Hopkins University
| + | *[[Per Ahlmark]] (European Co-Chair)<ref name=board>UN Watch: [http://www.unwatch.org/site/c.bdKKISNqEmG/b.1313591/k.954F/Mission__History.htm History]: Board Members (Accessed: 14 January 2012)</ref> |
| | + | *[[Irwin Cotler]]<ref name=board></ref> |
| | + | *[[Max Jakobson]] <ref name=board></ref> |
| | + | *[[Ruth Wedgwood]]<ref name=board></ref> |
| | + | *[[Jeane Kirkpatrick]] (deceased) former US Permanent Representative to the UN in New York |
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| | ===Staff=== | | ===Staff=== |
| − | *[[Leon Saltiel]] | + | *[[Eve Gani]]<ref name=salt>ibid.</ref> |
| | + | *[[Michael Inlander]]<ref>ibid.</ref> |
| | + | *[[Jonas Waechter]]<ref>ibid.</ref> |
| | + | *[[Natasha Sarraf]]<ref>ibid.</ref> |
| | + | ===Former Staff=== |
| | + | *[[Pablo Kapusta]] – Media Relations<ref>Wilmer Hale: [http://www.wilmerhale.com/pablo_kapusta/ profile] (Accessed: 18 December 2011.)</ref> |
| | + | *[[Leon Saltiel]]<ref name=salt>[http://www.unwatch.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=bdKKISNqEmG&b=1330819&ct=1760293 Source]</ref> |
| | + | *[[Jardena Lande]]<ref>ibid.</ref> |
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| | ==Affiliations== | | ==Affiliations== |
| − | *[[United Nations Economic and Social Council]] (NGO special consultative status) | + | *[[American Jewish Committee]] (parent organization) |
| − | *[[United Nations Department of Public Information]] (NGO associate status) | + | *[[World Jewish Congress]] (jointly controlled the organization with [[AJC]] until 2001) |
| − | *[[American Jewish Committee]] (affiliate) | + | *[[Transatlantic Institute]] (another AJC operation) |
| − | *[[Friedrich Naumann Stiftung]] – co-sponsored an event | + | *[[Friedrich Naumann Stiftung]] – co-sponsors events with UN Watch |
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| − | ==Similar organizations== | + | ==Geneva Summit Award Winners== |
| − | *[[Human Rights Watch]]
| + | ===2015=== |
| − | *[[Amnesty International]]
| + | [[Masih Alinejad]] (Iran) |
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| − | ==Contact information== | + | ===2016=== |
| | + | [[Antonio Ledezma]] (Venezuela) |
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| | + | ==Geneva Summit Particiapants== |
| | + | [[Darya Safai]] (Iran) |
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| | + | ==Similar Organizations== |
| | + | *[[Eye on the UN]] |
| | + | *[[NGO Monitor]] |
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| − | :Email: unwatch At unwatch.org | + | :Email: unwatch AT unwatch.org |
| − | :Phone: +41 22 734 14 72
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| | + | ==Affiliations== |
| | + | *[[CONGO]] |
| | + | ==External Resources== |
| | + | *Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, Paul de Rooij and David Miller, [http://spinwatch.org/-articles-by-category-mainmenu-8/62-international-politics/4998-un-watch-front-group-for-the-american-jewish-committee UN Watch: Front Group for the American Jewish Committee], Spinwatch.org, 8 June 2008. |
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| − | ==Notes== | + | ==References== |
| − | #{{note|ww}} [http://www.unwatch.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=bdKKISNqEmG&b=1314451&ct=1715013 Wednesday Watch], ''UN Watch'', January 19, 2005
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| − | #{{note|zigstudy}} [http://www.unwatch.org/atf/cf/%7B6DEB65DA-BE5B-4CAE-8056-8BF0BEDF4D17%7D/Jean_Zieglers_Campaign_Against_America.pdf Jean Ziegler's Campaign Against America] ''A Study by UN Watch'', October 27, 2005
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| − | #{{note|aijac}} Daniel Mandel, [http://www.aijac.org.au/review/2001/261/mrobinson.html Something About Mary], ''The Review'', January 2001
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| − | #{{note|zig}} Lynne Cohen, [http://www.jewishtribune.ca/tribune/jt-050804-02.html Canada condemns anti-Israel remarks of UN official it helped to elect], ''Jewish Tribune'', August 4, 2005
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