UN Watch
- Michelle Langrand
- • May 24, 2022
GENEVA — Boris Bondarev, Russia’s counselor to the United Nations in Geneva, resigned on Monday, calling the war in Ukraine a “crime against the Ukrainian people” as well as Russia’s population. “Never have I been so ashamed of my…
- Categories: Peace and Security
- A. Edward Elmendorf
- • July 3, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United Nations Human Rights Council, the highest organ exclusively responsible for human rights in the world body, is now 10 years old. It recently received concentrated attention here in the United States capital. Such concerted…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • August 16, 2013
The timing couldn’t be more awkward. The United Nations World Tourism Organization is holding its most important global gathering this year at Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, from August 24 to 29, barely out of the shadow of a July…
- Categories: Africa, UN Agencies
- Alice Volkov
- • November 13, 2012
Eighteen members were elected by the United Nations General Assembly to the Human Rights Council on Nov. 12. The members, serving three-year terms beginning Jan. 1, join 29 other countries on the council. Of the 18 new members, only…
- Categories: Human Rights
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