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UN Secretary General Calls for Fossil Fuel Advertising Ban
June 11, 2024
In an effort to double-down on global warming, the UN Secretary General calls for a ban on advertising by fossil fuel companies.
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UN Human Rights Experts Tour U.S. Focusing on Racial Justice
April 26, 2023
Experts from an independent panel appointed by the UN human rights council, the Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in the Context of Law Enforcement, began a two-week visit to the US that will focus on racial justice, law enforcement and policing.
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UN Chief António Guterres Demands U.S. and EU Set New Targets
March 21, 2023
Following the release of the United Nation’s (UN) new Climate Report, UN Chief António Guterres demanded that the European Union and the United States bring their climate neutrality targets forward to 2040 instead of 2050.
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UN Report reveals Russian forces Killed Hundreds of Civilians in Ukraine War
December 14, 2022
A new report from the United Nations human rights office has been released, documenting attacks in dozens of towns and executions by Russian forces that killed at least 441 civilians in the early days of the Ukraine war.
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UN Human Rights Chief Türk targets Twitter
November 07, 2022
United Nations Human Rights Chief Volker Türk wrote an open letter to Twitter’s Elon Musk lecturing on the importance of Human Rights following Musk’s firing on a majority of Twitter’s ethical AI team and all of the human rights team.
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Mark Carney-led GFANZ Drops Requirement for UN-backed Inititative
November 02, 2022
The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), a UN-backed climate-focused multi-trillion dollar coalition of financial institutions led by Mark Carney, announced it will no longer require its signatories to commit to the UN’s climate action campaign, Race to Zero.
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Plan of Action for the Fourth Phase of the World Programme for Human Rights Education
October 26, 2022
OHCHR’s Fourth Phase of the World Programme for Human Rights Education contemplates more robust indoctrination of children in UN human rights catechism
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Sudan and Vietnam Gain places on UN Human Rights Council
October 13, 2022
Two out of the five contested countries with a failing or abysmal human rights record have been elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council giving Vietnam and Sudan places, while Venezuela, South Korea and Afghanistan lost in the secret ballot vote.
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UN Watch: Authoritarian regimes Set to Win Top U.N. Human Rights Posts
October 05, 2022
UN Watch sounds the alarm on the upcoming UN election of 14 nations to its highest human rights body, calling, along with other a non-governmental human rights groups from Europe, the U.S. and Canada, on UN member states to oppose the election of Afghanistan, Algeria, Sudan, Venezuela and Vietnam who are either considered "not free" or "underqualified".
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Special Appointed Representative to Promote UN Agenda in U.S.
October 05, 2022
U.S. State Department appoints Special Representative for Subnational Diplomacy to promote UN economic, social, and cultural agenda in America’s cities
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