Meet Xi and Putin’s Hired Gun Inside the UN
If your dictatorship is facing U.S. or EU sanctions, you can count on Alena Douhan to announce that Western governments are the real human rights violators.
Hillel Neuer
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.
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The U.N.’s final solution to the Israel question
Its campaign of demonization and delegitimization escalates
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The problem with peacekeeping
The UN does it incompetently, corruptly, and criminally
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Fighting Israel on other battlefields
Enemies of the Jewish state launch attacks at the UN and in the media
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An Oberlin Professor Is Under Fire for His Past
Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, Iran's former ambassador to the U.N., has been accused of trying to cover up a 1988 massacre of political prisoners.
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UN condemns Iran’s extrajudicial killing of champion wrestler
According to the final tally, 79 countries voted for the resolution to condemn Iran’s regime while 32 voted against the resolution. A total of 64 nations abstained.
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Why Did Saudi Arabia Snub the U.S.?
There were some precursors over the last several months to Saudi Arabia’s decision today to ...
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UN Places Iran on Arms-Control Panel
As things go in the arms trade, there are not many countries in the world that misbehave more than Iran. The country is under a UN-imposed arms embargo — it cannot buy and it should not sel...
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Venezuela and Pakistan, Shoo-Ins For the UN Human Rights Council?
You won’t find this information posted yet on the United Nations web site, because when the UN General Assembly “elects” countries to the 47 member seats on the UN Human Rights...
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Ban Ki-Moon Congratulates Iranian Fox for Guarding the Hen House?
Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse, Iran is now offering to coordinate counter-terrorism activities for us all. At a two-day “counter-terrorism” conference just hosted...
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When In Doubt, Slam Israel
For the Islamic despotisms of the Middle East, it’s an old rule of thumb. When things get tough, or confusing, or frustrating, or when you simply want to deflect anger in the direction of a...
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Don’t Let Iran On The Human Rights Council
While Iran's regime bloodies its dissidents, the nuclear weapons-loving mullahs are seeking a treat for themselves at the United Nations: Iran is running for a seat on the U.N. Human Rights...
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A Gathering of BMWs & Tyrannies
Geneva — So, how many BMWs does it take to make one United Nations Human Rights Council? Many — to judge by the scene I came across Monday evening in the parking lot of the U...