Pakistan claims “diplomatic” victory over absence of UN resolution on Mumbai...
The Pakistan government sees the failure of the United Nations to issue a resolution regarding the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks despite unprecedented pressure from India, as its diplomatic win...
View ArticleLetter from UN’s Islamic group to UNHRC President Opposing Panel on Violence...
PDF of original letter PERMANENT MISSION OF PAKISTAN TO THE UNITED NATIONS AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS 56 me de Moillebeau 1211 Geneva 19 Tel: (4122) 7491930 Fax: (4122) 734 8085 E-mail:...
View ArticleChavez running for seat on top UN rights body
Rights groups to oppose bids by Pakistan and Venezuela for UN Human Rights Council GENEVA, Feb. 22 – The governments of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Pakistan are slated to run unopposed for seats on the...
View ArticleDissidents propose draft resolutions for world’s ignored emergencies
The Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy took place on March 13, 2012, organized by UN Watch and an international coalition of 20 NGOs. The Summit, which ran in parallel to the main session of...
View ArticleTestimony to U.N.: Rights chief Navi Pillay should quit picking on Canada...
UN RIGHTS CHIEF SLAMS CANADA WHILE HANDING PROPAGANDA COUP TO PAKISTAN AND ZIMBABWE UN Watch Testimony before the 20th session of the UN Human Rights Council, delivered under Agenda Item 2 (High...
View ArticleShamed Sudan Pulls Out After Campaign by Human Right NGOs led by Mia Farrow
UN Watch sounded the alarm, filed legal protest, submitted appeal by 30 rights groups to 193 countries, organized online petition sending 3,000 messages to Sudanese UN mission Group now shifts focus...
View ArticlePakistan’s under fire as UN rights review set to begin today
Pakistan’s UN Review Today Prompts NGO Appeal Opposing its Nov. 12 Bid to Join UN Rights Council International campaign of 40 MPs & NGOs protest candidacy Coalition from 19 countries including US,...
View ArticleU.N. Review Praises Pakistan’s Rights Record
This week the U.N. Human Rights Council examined, as part of its periodic review of all countries, the human rights situations in two countries with highly questionable records, Pakistan and Sri...
View ArticleUN hosts seminar against defamation – but downplays state-orchestrated violence
During a recent meeting at the UN, the High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay seemed to downplay the responsibility of governments in instigating violent protests, while Pakistan tried to...
View ArticlePakistan’s UPR: “With a little help from my friends”
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is often demonstrated as one of the Human Rights Council’s success stories. Indeed, it can have an impact when countries want to listen, learn from the peers and...
View ArticleUNHRC member Pakistan sentences mentally-ill man to death for blasphemy
Despicable: Pakistan, a member of the UN Human Rights Council, has just sentenced to death a mentally-ill man for the crime of blasphemy.
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