Stalemate Continues On UN Chemical Weapons Investigation In Syria
By Joseph A. Klein Tuesday, April 30, 2013
H.E. Bashar Ja’afari, Syria’s ambassador to the United Nations, held an hour long press conference today at UN headquarters in New York where he complained of “fraudulent accusations” against the Syrian government that it has used chemical weapons against the Syrian people. He said that such charges leveled at his government, including those based on unreliable intelligence assessments, lacked “any corroborated facts” and reminded him of the unfounded weapons of mass destruction charges leading up to the Iraq war in 2003.
Bill Hambrecht’s Connection to UN Boston Terror Apologist Richard FalkBy Guest Column Tuesday, April 30, 2013
This article by Anne Bayefsky originally appeared today on Breitbart News.
The UN Human Rights Council’s “human rights expert” Richard Falk has been enthusiastically welcomed in certain quarters after his obscene remarks on Boston’s “canaries” and justifiable “resistance” to “the American global domination project.” Monday evening in Beirut, Lebanon, Falk received an honor named after none other than one of the biggest Democratic money men in California, Bill Hambrecht.
Let the French Pay for UNESCOBy Claudia Rosett Monday, April 29, 2013
Here comes the next chapter in perverse U.S. priorities at the United Nations. While the federal government has been pleading that it is too broke to provide White House tours or pay air-traffic controllers, the State Department is itching to fork over more than $233 million to a United Nations agency in Paris — despite U.S. laws preventing them from doing so.
UN Watch urges event to be canceled after Falk was condemned worldwideBy UN Watch Monday, April 29, 2013
GENEVA, – A famous San Francisco tech finance pioneer is being called upon to cancel his sponsorship of a lecture tomorrow night that will honor a UN official who was denounced by world leaders last week for suggesting that the Boston bombings were somehow the fault of the U.S. and Israel.
Canada indicted by China, Russia, Iran at UN rights review
By UN Watch Friday, April 26, 2013
GENEVA, April 26, 2013 – Today’s UN quadrennial review of Canada’s human rights record quickly turned into a spectacle of hypocrisy and farce when the North Korean regime of Kim Jong-un took the floor to accuse the country of “torture and other ill-treatment,” China, Cuba and Pakistan bewailed Canada’s “racism,” and Russia deplored “torture and cruelty against peaceful protestors.” (See full quotes below).
UN Official’s Smear of Boston Victims Just Latest Attack On US, IsraelBy Guest Column Friday, April 26, 2013
This article by Anne Bayefsky originally appeared on Breitbart News.
On July 7, 2011, U.S. UN Ambassador to Geneva, Eileen Donahoe, issued a statement on Richard Falk. He’s the UN “human rights expert” who thinks Boston had it coming. The professor who labeled Boston’s victims “canaries” because resistance to “the American global domination project” is justified. The same guy who has been spouting antisemitism and anti-Americanism from his UN perch for years.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s Office Criticizes UN “Human Rights Expert”By Joseph A. Klein Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Richard Falk - a top “expert” appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council to justify the Council’s anti-Israel bias - characterized the Boston Marathon terrorist bombings as an understandable reaction to the “American global domination project.”
UN Official Justifies Boston Bombings as ‘Retribution’, Blames America & ‘Tel AvivBy UN Watch Monday, April 22, 2013
GENEVA, – In a letter sent today to UN chief Ban Ki-moon and U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice (see below), the Geneva-based non-governmental monitoring group UN Watch demanded the condemnation of top UN Human Rights Council official Richard Falk over his latest remarks blaming the Boston terrorist attacks on U.S. foreign policy and “Tel Aviv.”
UN-Arab League Special Envoy To Syria Brahimi Won’t Resign - At Least For Now
By Joseph A. Klein Friday, April 19, 2013
Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN-Arab League Special Envoy to Syria, expressed frustration with the deteriorating situation in Syria and the lack of UN Security Council action in remarks to reporters following his closed door briefing Friday morning to the Security Council.
UNESCO silent as Hamas bulldozes world heritage site to make terrorist training campBy UN Watch Monday, April 15, 2013
GENEVA, – In an urgent letter sent today to UNESCO director-general Irina Bokova (see letter below), UN Watch demanded immediate action to stop the Hamas bulldozing of a 3000-year-old Gaza harbor for use as a terrorist training camp, as reported today by Al Monitor Palestine Pulse. A copy was also sent to EU foreign minister Catherine Ashton calling on the EU to take action.
U.S. condemns Syria sitting as U.N. human rights judge at Paris assemblyBy UN Watch Wednesday, April 10, 2013
GENEVA,—UN Watch welcomed U.S. condemnation of Syria’s membership on a 30-country United Nations human rights committee that is meeting in Paris today and tomorrow, part of a two-week UNESCO Executive Board session that opened today.
Russian Dissident & Chess Champion Wins Human Rights AwardBy UN Watch Monday, April 8, 2013
“UN Watch has decided to grant the Morris B. Abram Human Rights Award to Garry Kasparov for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in Russia,” said executive director Hillel Neuer. “Mr. Kasparov is not only one of the world’s smartest men, he is also among its bravest.”
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