What is UN WATCH ?

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Background on UN WATCH

• Founded in 1993 by civil rights activist Morris B Abrams, lawyer, permanent representative to UN. Based in Geneva, Switzerland.
• Until 2000 affiliated with World Jewish Congress
• From 2001 and on It was affiliated with American Jewish Congress (AJC)
• 2013 became “independent”
• Misson: Antisemitism and Unfair treatment of Israel at the UN

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Mission of UN WATCH

• “United Nations Watch is foremost concerned with the just application of UN Charter principles. Areas of interest include: UN management reform, the UN and civil society, equality within the UN, and the equal treatment of member states. United Nations Watch notes that the disproportionate attention and unfair treatment applied by the UN toward Israel over the years offers an object lesson (though not the only one) in how due process, equal treatment, and other fundamental principles of the UN Charter are often ignored or selectively upheld.”
• https://unwatch.org/about-us/mission-history/

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Who is Abrams B. Morris?

• Abrams was an American Civil Rights Activist, famous for 1963 “one person, one vote” Supreme Court case.
• 1960 helped facilitate MLK’s release from prison for a sit-in
• President of American Jewish Committee 1964-1968
• Drafted the 4^th Amendment of the Geneva Convention, humanitarian protection for civilians in a ware zone

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Who is Abrams B. Morris?

• Speech to the ADL: “Today, after a lifetime in UN affairs, I can say that the United Nations is a vital house, but it too is a house divided. It is divided not only by differences of opinion which is healthy but by discrimination against Israel, much as the discrimination against Blacks of which I have spoken tonight. Israel, the Jewish State, is treated as a pariah within the UN — a fact that we in the Jewish community know. And this treatment, wholly unacceptable, divides the world body and impairs its credibility.”
• https://unwatch.org/a-house-divided-cant-stand-a-house-united-will-stand/

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Current Leadership at UN WATCH

• Ambassador Mark P. Lagon
• Georgetown University Chair for International Relations and Security, former Deputy Assistant Secretary at the U.S. State Department responsible for United Nations-related human rights and humanitarian issues
• Katrina Lantos Swett
• President of the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice, former Chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom
• Professor Gert Weisskirchen
• Former German MP, professor of higher education, and Vice-President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly

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Current Leadership at UN Watch

• Dr. Einat Wilf
• Author, intellectual, former Member of the Israeli Parliament and Goldman Visiting Professor at Georgetown University
• Ambassador Diego Arria
• Venezuelan opposition leader, former Permanent Representative to the United Nations and President of the Security Council
• Jean-Claude Buhrer
• Swiss author, journalist, former Le Monde correspondent at the UN Human Rights Commission

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Current Leadership at UN WATCH

• Professor Irwin Cotler
• Canadian MP, international law professor, human rights advocate and former Justice Minister
• Baroness Ruth Deech
• Member of British House of Lords, academic, lawyer, bioethicist, former Principal of St Anne’s College at Oxford University and chair of Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority from 1994 to 2002
• Senator Linda Frum
• Member of the Canadian Senate from 2009 to 2021, journalist, best-selling author, former contributing editor to Maclean’s, columnist with the National Post and Gemini-Award winning documentarian

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Current Leadership at UN WATCH

• Yang Jianli
• Chinese dissident, former political prisoner, survivor of Tiananmen Square massacre, president of Initiatives for China
• Garry Kasparov
• Russian dissident and former world chess champion
• https://unwatch.org/about-us/mission-history/

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Chair of UN WATCH

• Ambassador Alfred H. Moses:
• Our regular UN Watch Briefings bring an in-depth look behind the headlines, as do our articles published in major publications around the globe, including the International Herald Tribune, The New Republic Online, Israel’s Haaretz, Canada’s National Post and Europe’s Juriste International. UN Watch, with our Geneva headquarters situated at the very heart of the UN’s human rights apparatus, frequently testifies before the Human Rights Council and other important UN bodies, often representing large coalitions of non-governmental organizations.

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Executive Director of UN WATCH

• Hillel C. Neuer
• International Lawyer, activist, human rights advocate
• 2016, the City of Chicago and Mayor Rahm Emanuel adopted a resolution declaring Hillel Neuter Day, citing his role “as one of the world’s foremost human rights advocates” and his contributions to “promote peace, justice and human rights around the world.”
• 2018 Honorary Doctorate in Law from McGill University for his work on human rights
• A newspaper described his “feared and dreaded” by dictators, Israeli newspaper mentioned him as “Top 100 Most Influential Jewish People in the World.”

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Executive Director of UN WATCH

• “In 2017, Neuer’s “Where Are Your Jews?” speech before the UNHRC, replicated in multiple languages across social media, was seen 3 million times on Facebook and nearly 5 million times on YouTube.”
• https://unwatch.org/the-case-against-unrwa/

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Code Pink Makes it to UN Watch Website

https://unwatch.org/exposed-un-women-deputy-chief-endorsed-153-tweets-attacking-israel-zionism/

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Global Impact

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MMF Foundation Philanthropy

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MMF Foundation Philanthropy

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Adam Milstein Op-Eds

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