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UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer is calling on UN Secretary-General António Guterres and UN General Assembly President Annalena Baerbock to retract their tribute to Imad El Samhouri, a longtime UNRWA teacher and school principal recently exposed as a Hamas field commander. Click here for photos & videos At a UN memorial ceremony on June […] The post UN Leaders Lit an Eternal Flame for a…
GENEVA, Aug. 6, 2026 — UN Watch today strongly condemned the appointment of the Eritrean regime as Chair of the United Nations Human Rights Council’s 2026 Social Forum, calling the decision “a grotesque farce that places one of the world’s most repressive dictatorships in charge of a body tasked with advancing human rights.” “Inmates are […] The post UN Watch Condemns Appointment of Eritrea as…
UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer appeared on ILTV with Calev Ben-David to discuss Israel’s Supreme Court challenge to the UNRWA ban, the agency’s ties to Hamas, and the future of Gaza. Calev Ben-David, ILTV: In other news, Israel’s Supreme Court is this week hearing a potentially landmark legal challenge to the recent Israeli law banning […] The post Hillel Neuer on ILTV: “UNRWA Is…
In the midst of a massive migrant surge into Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta, former Human Rights Watch chief Kenneth Roth floated a conspiravy theory pointing the finger at Israel. Roth suggested Israel prefers “its ally Morocco” control Ceuta rather than Spain, arguing that Spanish control of both sides of the Strait of Gibraltar […] The post Dismantled: Ken Roth’s Latest Israel…
Letter urges Guterres to denounce Tlaleng Mofokeng’s mayoral candidacy while still holding her UN mandate, and to reject immunity for personal social-media abuse GENEVA, July 27, 2026 — UN Watch today filed a formal complaint with United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres over what it described as “grave violations and serious misconduct” by Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng, the […] The post UN Watch…
July 23, 2026 — UN Watch, a Geneva-based non-governmental monitoring organization, condemned the election today of Algeria, a serial human rights abuser, to the presidency of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), a top UN body that regulates human rights groups, oversees the UN women’s rights commission, and adopts resolutions on a vast array […] The post UN Elects Algeria President of Key…
GENEVA, July 23, 2026 — In a quiet move preempting any debate, Secretary-General António Guterres is asking the UN General Assembly to decide as early as Friday on an unprecedented bid to grant High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk a second four-year term, as first revealed yesterday by UN Watch. Former Human Rights Watch […] The post Ken Roth and UN Watch Oppose Guterres’ Quiet Rush to…
A new 80-page report by Germany’s far-left Rosa Luxemburg Foundation—despite containing numerous falsehoods about UN Watch—acknowledges our extraordinary impact, concluding that “UN Watch has significantly influenced the international and German discourse on UNRWA.” The debate is important because Germany today is the largest government donor to UNRWA, providing over $118 million in direct funding…
Today, U.S. Congressman Joe Wilson of South Carolina, who serves as Assistant Majority Whip, urged Secretary of State Marco Rubio to take action against five extremist UN officials exposed by UN Watch for subverting human rights. As written in the official letter to Secretary Rubio and U.S. Ambassador Mike Waltz, “the Administration established an important […] The post Congressman Urges Rubio to…
The next United Nations Secretary-General will take office on January 1, 2027, succeeding António Guterres at a time when the United Nations faces mounting concerns over politicization, double standards, and the growing influence of authoritarian regimes. While formally appointed by the 193-member General Assembly, the Secretary-General is effectively selected by the UN Security Council, where […]…
