Geneva

November 22, 2024 | |

‘We Are United’: Former UNRWA Chief Preached Unity With Iran’s Terror Proxies 

UNRWA Pledged Cooperation With Iran’s Terror Proxies: Pierre Krahenbuhl, the previous head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA), pledged to meet with Iran’s...

September 23, 2024 | Edmund Fitton-Brown |

The Houthis have challenged the Rules-Based International System and must be defeated

In my first analysis and opinion piece on the so-called Axis of Resistance, I set the scene by describing Iran’s 45-year trajectory from the Khomeini revolution to its current challenge to...

June 3, 2024 | |

Israeli Amendment Condemning Hamas and Demanding Release of Hostages Passed by World Health Organization Assembly

The World Health Assembly, the governing forum of the World Health Organization (WHO), passed an Israeli amendment on May 31 that called for the release of all hostages held in Gaza...

April 8, 2024 | |

UN Human Rights Council Calls for Arms Embargo on Israel

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on April 5 passed a resolution that calls upon all states “to cease the sale, transfer and diversion of arms, munitions and other...

February 26, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Iran’s FM in Geneva for UN, ICRC meetings

Iran, which backs Hamas and supported the October 7 massacre in Israel by Hamas, now says that it wants to see political efforts to end the “Gaza crisis.”

November 23, 2023 | |

Hamas Continues to Deny Red Cross Access to Hostages, Proof of Life

As Hamas prepares to release 50 hostages, the fate of more than 180 other hostages — both Israelis and foreign nationals — remains unclear. Hamas continues to deny requests to...

November 16, 2023 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Iran reveals its role behind Hamas holding hostages – analysis

Iran’s foreign minister met with ICRC president and discusses Hamas holding "prisoners."

November 14, 2023 | |

Israel SitRep: Nov. 14, 2023

Gallant Says Hamas Has Lost Control in Gaza, IDF Forces Capture Gaza’s Parliament and Hamas Police HQ | IDF Finds Hamas Command Center in Rantisi Children’s Hospital | Gallant Says Hamas Has Lost...

May 31, 2023 | Richard Goldberg |

How Congress Can Fix Biden’s Failed U.N. Strategy

Countries from around the world gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, over the past week for the World Health Organization’s annual assembly, but Taiwan was not among them. Pressure from Beijing thwarted requests...

June 4, 2022 | Anthony Ruggiero |

North Korean Reds Chairing UN Disarmament Conference While Testing Missiles

Biden resists a serious boycott, hoping to reform the UN from within.

May 20, 2022 | Anthony Ruggiero |

So Much for Reforming the World Health Organization

The Biden administration vowed it would change the body from within, but its proposals play into the hands of China.

March 4, 2022 | Richard Goldberg, John Hardie

Putin Is Making a Mockery of the United Nations

The Biden administration must finally recognize what engagement at the U.N. can and cannot do.

June 30, 2021 | Craig Singleton |

World Trade Organization

June 30, 2021 | Tzvi Kahn, David May, Craig Singleton

United Nations Human Rights Council

June 18, 2021 | Thomas Joscelyn |

What Happened at the Biden-Putin Summit? Not Much.

The two discussed Afghanistan, cyberattacks, and more.

June 14, 2021 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Samuel Hodgson, Austin Blair

Behind the Black Bloc

An Overview of Militant Anarchism and Anti-Fascism

April 13, 2021 | Craig Singleton |

Diplomatic Malpractice: Reforming the WHO After China’s COVID Cover-up

April 15, 2020 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Countering a Corrupt China

How Covid-19 Has Exposed the Regime’s Power Plays

March 10, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

UN issues scathing indictment of Iran’s human rights violations

The newly released U.N. Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran savaged Tehran’s failure to adhere to basic human rights norms. Javaid Rehman,...

February 27, 2020 | Toby Dershowitz, Talia Katz

Torture TV

The Case for Sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran’s State-Run Media